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...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 the pages or sections they find interesting, designing their own specialized paper. But instead of reading it online, Niiu is printed overnight and delivered to the subscriber's door the next morning, just like any other newspaper. (See the dangers of printing money in Germany...
...well as pick up content from 500 online providers, such as Qype, a user-generated review site for European restaurants and bars, and kicker, an online German soccer magazine. "It's an individualized paper which has a wide appeal because people, especially students who grew up with the Web, want to get their news from different sources," says Oberhof...
...slump. They say they will rely both on newspaper sales and advertising revenues to turn a profit, and they already have a couple of large German advertising clients lined up. "We've got an attractive business model because our clients can do targeted advertising and reach the readers they want," says Tiedemann...
...this really what readers want? Critics say the new paper faces an uphill battle with the online media revolution. "Niiu shares the same dilemma of print journalism in the age of the Internet: every paper you read in the morning only contains yesterday's news," says Stephan Weichert, a journalism professor at the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. "The Web offers news every second and gives the option to link to blogs and other websites. Why would people read and even buy a story or information, which they select on the Internet the day before...
...inside the Obama Administration," says Andrew Natsios, the special envoy to Sudan under President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2007. "Gration, with the support of [Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs] Johnnie Carson and [National Security Adviser] Jim Jones are all on one side wanting to use diplomacy to address Sudan's problems. On the other side, you have Susan Rice, Samantha Power, with the former co-chair of the Enough Project, Gayle Smith, now at the National Security Council, as the hard-liners who want to declare virtual...