Little noticed so far is news that Hearst, owner of the struggling Seattle Post-Intelligencer and San Francisco Chronicle — hell, their whole newspaper chain is struggling — has struck a deal with Helium, a Massachusetts-based Web site that coordinates freelance citizen journalists, to provide content for Hearst newspapers.
At first this will involve only two small papers in Connecticut. But consider the implications, as reported by Boston Business Journal:


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