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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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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NewBizNews Conference Videos: Services & Partners (cont.)
Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by Peter Hauck.
Representatives from a number of companies gave brief presentations (followed by Q & A) on how hyperlocal sites can benefit from their services. Outside.in (Mark Josephson) ______________ GameChanger (Ted Sullivan) ______________ Buzzr.com (Ed Sussman) ______________ Transparensee (Alex Acree, Steve Lavine) ______________ Adify (Jim Larrison) ______________________________
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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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Call for local bloggers for a NewBizNews event
Posted on 15. Oct, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
I’m putting out a call for local bloggers within traveling distance from New York – and for journalists who’ve left their jobs or are thinking about leaving to start local news blogs – to attend a series of workshops at CUNY on Nov. 11. The first half of the day, we’ll be presenting and discussing [...]
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News Innovation Camp in Portland – Entrepreneurs Away!!
Posted on 26. Mar, 2009 by David Cohn.
It has been some time since we’ve posted at NewsInnovation. This isn’t for lack of want – simple because we are are all busy. Jeff has a book out. David is working furiously on Spot.Us. CUNY continues to expand as a J-school. It appears that 2009 is turning into a watershed year for newspapers. Since [...]
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Ten Point Plan to (Re)Building a Successful Local Media Salesforce
Posted on 26. Jan, 2009 by David Cohn.
A guest post written by Dave Chase as a follow up to his “Five Fatal Flaws that are Killing Local Internet Plays.” For publishers in the local Internet media marketplace, what can be learned from the dotcom bust that can be applied today? In an earlier piece, Five Fatal Flaws that are killing local Internet [...]
