Free newspapers were one of the big stories of the noughties, and came to symbolise the primacy of ‘free’ and the imminent demise of paid-for papers. No longer! Piet Bakker charts their rise and fall and describes the conditions in which some might thrive again.
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Piet Bakker
Dr Piet Bakker is Professor of Cross Media Content at the School of Journalism and Communication at the Hogeschool Utrecht. Piet originally studied political science and has worked as a journalist for newspapers, magazines, TV and radio. He has published books and articles on a wide range of media issues. In 2004, he started the Newspaper Innovation weblog.