On Tuesday, I blogged about Burlington Free Press owner Gannett Co.’s underhanded new free distribution scheme in Jackson MS. The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies homepage lists other attempts by Gannett to institute similar policies. Apparently they’ve tried it in Greenville, SC, and in South Dakota, too. Where next?

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Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at...