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State of Play for Chicago's News Blogs: Tenuous

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Former Sun-Times editor Sally Duros interviews some of the players in Chicago's on-line news biz (including the Windy Citizen) and finds plenty of action but not enough revenue to pay the writers and keep the fridge full. It's a problem that, for Andrew Huff of Gapers Block, boils down to this: "If I left, the site would die."

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