The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies.
Blogger: Mathew Ingram
Position: Blogger and communities editor at Toronto’s The Globe and Mail
Blog name: Mathew Ingram
Backstory: Online news aggregators continue to proliferate and draw attention, while print newspapers continue to suffer. This week, the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations report showed that top daily newspapers lost a staggering 10.6 percent of their circulation over the last six months.
Blog post: So what might be keeping some of the other 89.4 percent of newspaper readers around? In a blog post, Ingram argues that print newspapers serve a unique function as aggregators that hasn’t been replicated online — yet. “Maybe I

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