Your idea is interesting and might work. One Slovakian daily does something similar - they have blogs written by their readers (anyone can register one), and if

Your idea is interesting and might work. One Slovakian daily does something similar - they have blogs written by their readers (anyone can register one), and if they find some blog post interesting, they republish it in print (but they have an agreement with blog writers that they can do that - as a counter-service for free hosting). The potential problems of your idea to think about: 1) Many blog posts are written in a conversational style, and their purpose is to collect relevant links, comment on something, or spark a discussion. Basically, many blogs can be characterized as conversation platforms - reprinting them to paper will lose this dimension. 2) For reprinting you would need to pick up essay-like blog posts, which have their own merit without reader comments or inbound links. And those are not easy to find, so you can encounter similar issue like "normal" magazines - how to find good content. 3) When we are really talking about magazine (not newspaper), the important parts are also design and photos. You will really need (to pay for) professional photos to make the magazine engaging. 4) distribution - another big pain in the... how will you distribute? To sum it up, if I would like to make money from blogs, I would rather go to a path of either: 1) republishing the blogs online (might have sense if you add value by grouping interesting stuff together) 2) trying to run blog network myself and share revenue with authors 3) start a blog myself and pay writers per post (or per visitor numbers).