News Innovation

NewBizNews: What ad sales people hear

Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by Jeff Jarvis.

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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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The state of the art of news

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Jeff Jarvis.

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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.

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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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NewBizNews Conference Videos: Services & Partners (cont.)

Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by Peter Hauck.

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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)

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GameChanger (Ted Sullivan)

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Buzzr.com (Ed Sussman)

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Transparensee (Alex Acree, Steve Lavine)

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Adify (Jim Larrison)

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The near future

Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.

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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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NewBizNews Conference Videos: Services & Partners

Posted on 03. Dec, 2009 by Peter Hauck.

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Representatives from a number of companies gave brief presentations (followed by Q & A) on how hyperlocal sites can benefit from their services.
PaperG (Victor Wong)

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Spot.us (David Cohn)

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SeeClickFix (Ben Berkowitz)

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GrowthSpur (Mark Potts)

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NewBizNews Conference Videos: Next Steps — What We Heard, What We Need

Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by Peter Hauck.

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At the conclusion of the day-long event, conference participants set the agenda for the continuing conversation:

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NewBizNews Conference Videos: Partnerships with Local Media

Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by Peter Hauck.

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Jeff Jarvis moderates this “reverse panel,” featuring questions from the conference participants to a group of media company executives.