Susy Buchanan wrote a piece about quad rugby for the Arizona alt-weekly that caught the eye of Dana Alan Shapiro, Murderball's co-director. Shapiro, at the time a senior editor for Spin, then pitched Maxim on an article that would help launch his film. Click here to read the Austin Chronicle article detailing the process behind the film's success, from securing financing to finding a distributor.

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The most widely read papers in Paris, Manhattan, London and Toronto are free dailies. According to this article by Zachary M. Seward on Forbes.com, these papers "have rapidly claimed a firm stake of the [newspaper] market," posting strong circulation gains fueled, in part, by a younger audience that would not pay for a newspaper. But do the freebies make money? Seward writes: "Most media companies won't say, but there are good and bad signs."

Continue ReadingProfitability Uncertain, Free Dailies Multiply