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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
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print stories: 2 news summaries
INTERVIEW

 Maybe Dave Eggers 
 Can Save Newspapers 


Jun 9, 09 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dave Eggers, author, editor, and professed lover of print, is hatching a plan to save newspapers. Or at least a modern version of them. Eggers tells the Rumpus that he and his crew at McSweeney's will publish their version of a daily newspaper in September. It will exist for one... More »

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Hurricane Katrina • New Orleans • publishing • McSweeney's • Dave Eggers • newspaper industry • print • Zeitoun

(Newser) - Less than 10% of blind Americans know how to read Braille, and just 10% of blind children are being taught the printed language, the AP reports. A study by the National Federation of the Blind also pegs Braille illiteracy to unemployment. While the blind population faces 70% unemployment overall, that... More »

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education • literacy • blindness • unemployment • National Federation for the Blind • Louis Braille • print

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