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NewBizNews: What ad sales people hear
Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by Jeff Jarvis.
Recently, at CUNY, we held a roundtable for ad sales people from hyperlocal blogs to big newspapers to hear what they are hearing from local merchants. We’re wrapping up our research for the New Business Models for News Project — indeed, it was Alberto Ibargüen, head of the Knight Foundation that funded this work, who [...]
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Entrepreneurial journalism on the air
Posted on 17. Jan, 2010 by Jeff Jarvis.
On this week’s On the Media, Bob Garfield interviews me about CUNY’s entrepreneurial journalism program and the idea of teaching journalism students business. See our conference (call) with J-schools around the world that are starting to teach entrepreneurial journalism. We also discussed the New Business Models for News Project.
(Note that our entrepreneurial journalism course [...]
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John Paton on newspapers’ future
Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Jeff Jarvis.
Two newspaper companies hired new chiefs last week. The Star Tribune hired Michael Klingensmith, my former colleague at Entertainment Weekly, and Journal Register hired John Paton, now head of Spanish-language publisher impreMedia and a newspaperman with roots in Canada. The latter didn’t get the attention it deserved.
Paton has executed a strategic vision at impreMedia, [...]
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The state of the art of news
Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Jeff Jarvis.
My response to the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s study that found most original reporting in Baltimore still comes from major media:
No shit.
We need a study to determine this? Well, maybe we do. I think it is worthwhile to have a baseline to compare where news goes in years to come. When I argued [...]
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Teaching entrepreneurial journalism
Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Jeff Jarvis.
On Friday, we at CUNY had the honor of playing host to a conference (call) for more than two dozen educators around the world — New York to Arizona to Berkeley to Guadalajara to London to Oslo — who are teaching or starting to teach entrepreneurial journalism.
Here’s the wiki where we will continue to share [...]
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Signs of hope
Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
David Carr wrote another good and hopeful column today (this, I told him, was his burning bush column). I’m delighted that it ended with a brief report on his jurying in my entrepreneurial journalism course at CUNY:
Meanwhile, journalism schools are no longer content just to teach the inverted pyramid. A few weeks ago, I was [...]
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The near future
Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Xark raised fair and unfair criticism of our work at the New Business Models for News Project. I’ll respond:
Xarc’s Dan Conover says that the models we presented look a lot like present models, only different. Fair and true. Our goal was to look at what news in a metro market would look like if the [...]
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Get off the lawn
Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
There’s one thing that Rupert Murdoch, Arianna Huffington, Steve Brill, and I agreed on last week – and and there’s probably nothing else one can imagine this group would ever find consensus around. At the two-day Federal Trade Commission “workshop” (read: hearing) that asked how journalism will “survive” (their word) in the internet age, we [...]
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On Murdoch & Google and news
Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
I appeared on NPR’s On Point today to discuss Murdoch v. Google with Michael Wolff and Steve Brill and also got to talk about our New Business Models for News Project. You can listen here.
The show’s blog quoted me thusly:
But News Corp isn’t the only one making the mistake here. I think the mistake [...]
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The opportunity of bankruptcy
Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Tweet: How bankruptcy can help a newspaper get theah from heah. Don’t squander it. **
I fear that Tribune Company – and other newspaper companies – will come out of bankruptcy having squandered the opportunity it presents to rebuild from the ground up.
At the New Business Models for (Local) News Summit at CUNY last week, my [...]
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Advice for German media
Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
I have an op-ed in today’s Welt Kompakt newspaper in Germany giving my advice to a German mediasphere that I see becoming more protectionist. It’s not online (ironically) but so you can see the play, a PDF of it is here and here. This is my original English text:
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At the Müncher Medientage, [...]
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The balance shifts
Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
At yesterday’s New Business Models for (Local) News summit at CUNY, I ran what I called a reverse panel with big media folks – NY Times, Washington Post, Gannett, Star-Ledger, Impremedia, Politico – sitting up front but ordered to listen to the wishes and needs of the people in the room. I threatened to cover [...]
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The future of business is in ecosystems
Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Last week, I said that the future of news is entrepreneurial (not institutional). Today, a sequel: The future of business is in ecosystems (not conglomerates or industries).
At the Foursquare conference last week, I was struck by the miss-by-a-mile worldviews held by the chiefs of big, old conglomerates and the entrepreneurs starting new, nimble companies. [...]
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Tough love for news media
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Here’s video version of the talk I keynote talk I linked below for the Munich Media Days conference a week ago. I gave them tough love, saying I was concerned about the protectionist talk I’ve heard from Germany media, not unlike one what can here in the U.S. and elsewhere. I also talked about the [...]
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A checklist
Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Robert Niles at the Online Journalism Review provides a good checklist for people starting their own news sites.
