Star-Tribune Kindle Edition

Mediaweek.com reports that Minneapolis's Star-Tribune has revealed a new edition of the paper for the Kindle E-reader.
The Kindle device and software, developed by an Amazon.com subsidiary, allows readers to purchase and read a black-and-white edition of many newspapers around the country.

According to the report, The Star-Tribune edition costs $10 per month, or 75 cents a day—25 cents more than the cover price of a weekday edition.
And other Kindle edition prices are similar.
The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune and The Washington Post all charge $10 per month.

USA Today charges $11.99, The New York Times $13.99, and The Wall Street Journal costs $14.99 per month.

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Huff Post hires former biz editor

Former Washington Post business editor, Lawrence Roberts, was named as the head of a new Investigative Fund for the Huffington Post today.
The fund, which launched in March with an initial budget of $1.75 million, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit initiative with the goal of producing multimedia investigations.
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