Topix bought up by Knight Ridder, Gannet & Tribune

SiliconBeat weighs in on this shakeup in the Internet publishing and news landscape, especially how it relates to a merging of old and new media.

"The Internet at every turn is about building scale and the ability to do things at an international and national level, but also at the local level,'' said Tim Landon, president of Tribune Interactive and Classifieds. "And that's what the intriguing potential is for Topix.''

Among other things, the article discusses how the newspapers and their subsidiaries can now use Topix to distribute traffic from and through their other sites such as CareerBuilder & Cars.com

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