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As journalists the world over bemoan the state of the newspaper industry amid layoffs and folding broadsheets, two young German entrepreneurs are rushing headfirst into the fray, launching a new paper tailored to the individual tastes of their readers.
The paper, called Niiu, is all about consumer choice: it gives readers the freedom to choose the types of articles they want to read, culled from a wide range of German and international news sources. After registering on Niiu's website, niiu.de, readers can access other newspapers online and select...
Niiu is the brainchild of two Germans, 27-year-old Hendrik Tiedemann and 23-year-old Wanja Oberhof, who claim that it's the first "customized" newspaper in Europe. "Many people prefer to read a newspaper; they like the feel of paper," Oberhof tells TIME. "Print is the most comfortable...
As other papers struggle to cope with plummeting advertising sales in the economic downturn, the young German entrepreneurs say they're confident they can weather the slump. They say they will rely both on newspaper sales and advertising revenues to turn a profit, and they already have a couple of...
With that mindset wilts one potentially massive critique: Pamuk never writes his way out of Istanbul; the physical and mental geography mapped out in “Museum” is old hat. Lost loves and newspaper columnists, tea houses and Turkish-brand sodas recur in all his books, and...