Mediagazer: For The Economist, the uncommercial pays off (Peter Lauria/Reuters)

11:00 AM ET, February 17, 2012

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Peter Lauria / Reuters:

For The Economist, the uncommercial pays off — (Reuters) - The Economist Group's chief executive, Andrew Rashbass, says the problem with most magazines today is that they have traded the courage of their convictions for commercial interests. — To illustrate this, Rashbass pulls …

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Emil Protalinski / ZDNet:

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