• Editor & Publisher, Tuesday, July 7, 2009 9:22 PM

The Printed Blog newspaper has failed to attract outside investment capital and has been shuttered six months after its launch. Blog's founder and one-man financier, Joshua Karp's idea was to get content from local bloggers with their permission and, eventually, some kind of payment. The content was put in a highly templated format and distributed by hand at mass transit stops. Cheap ads were to be sold to sustain the paper.

The first issues featured stunning photography on a rich paper stock. The content was as eclectic as the blogosphere, and occasionally was R-rated. All told, the paper put out 16 editions and distributed 80,000 print copies with another 100,000 downloaded.

Before a single issue appeared, it was the subject of articles worldwide, from The New York Times to the Irish Times. In March the paper had editions in its home base of Chicago, plus San Francisco and New York City. Despite the closure, Karp expects some elements of the paper to be "strategically implemented elsewhere as the part of the evolution of newsprint."

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