Book:
Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive by Mark Briggs. This text is free and available online as a PDF.
Articles:
Out of Print: The death and life of the American newspaper by Eric Alterman
New Yorker Magazine March 31, 2008
Chapter 1 “From Tom Paine to Blogs and Beyond” from We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People by Dan Gillmore
Why I Blog by Andrew Sullivan
The Atlantic Magazine November 2008
Exposed: Blog-post confidential by Emily Gould
The New York Times Magazine May 25, 2008
Amateur Hour: Journalism without journalists by Nicholas Lemann (New Yorker Magazine, August 7, 2006)
Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business by Chris Anderson (Wired Magazine, Feb. 25, 2008)