From the protests in Hong Kong to Occupy and Sandy in New York, a new generation of tools is allowing communities to connect without using the Internet. Can they have a use in news too?

The impact of Do Not Track on news outlets and the complexities of filter bubbles and polarization: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.

Will America’s third-largest newspaper group sell as a single unit or a collection of smaller clusters? And what would lead someone to buy newspapers in 2014, anyway?

The Bay Area local news site has a dedicated audience and significant ad revenue, but to continue growing they’ll need additional sources of income.

Belt says it expects three-quarters of its revenue to come from book sales by the end of the year.

The Austin-based news nonprofit has success and a measure of stability with its business model, raising almost $27 million in its first five years. But now the Tribune has to figure out how it grows its audience outside the capitol.

The Apple CEO confirmed what some websites had reported years ago — the fragmented lens of online media giving new meaning to the idea of an “open secret.”

The numbers may look flat, but they contain a continuing set of ups and downs. Up next: executing on a year’s worth of launches.