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say: "We are sorry to announce that Backfence will be ceasing operations within the next few days."
Paul Farhi wrote in the June/July AJR: "The failure of Backfence may offer no greater lesson than the old one about pioneers being the ones with arrows in their backs. New ventures fail all the time. But it could also sound a cautionary note about the present -- and immediate future -- of hyperlocal news sites."
