Archive for October, 2008
4:30PM – Now We Need Research
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Persephone Miel says that there’s got to be a way for CUNY find out where the values are. Students and teachers, responsible for the continuance of journalism, should be taking stock of the metrics for now and for the future. Sounds like a plan: But what is the role of education?
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News Organization
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Rebecca Harshbarger.
I could only catch part of this meeting, due to being in class all day, but everyone seems anxious. Jim Willse, from the Star Ledger, announced that the paper would be cutting 40% of its staff by the end of the year, and everyone wanted to talk about advertising revenue. So much of newspapers’ costs […]
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Is the news room ALL crap?
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Kye Shkymba.
Andrew Heyward (Marketspace LLC), the group’s moderator, sets the tone for the discussion: Let’s reinvent the modern newsroom. But first, let’s discuss if we need a newsroom at all? Soon the group splits in two – roughly said; in those being pro-building, and those being anti-building. Michael Rosenblum, Rosenblum TV, puts the latter position in […]
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Newsroom: What a fantasy!
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Kye Shkymba.
The group is circling around the size of our startup. How big or how small is an efficient local newsroom? Some suggest that we need 130 content managers. Others counter that that’s way too big. How are we going to earn money? Andrew Heyward underlines, that we don’t want to make a fantasy newsroom here. […]
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Revenue.13 continued
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Emily Mayer.
Big companies should become a place for hyper locally targeted ads. Washingtonpost.com has one of the largets DC audiences.
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Public Support.11 Branding and Goodbye
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Eliot Caroom.
Cohn asks, what leverage do we have that the conventional news business model doesn’t have? “The idea of filling in what isn’t being done by the major media” is a very fundable area, Rosen says. Osnos says accountability is the most important role of the media, and is disappointed in declines in coverage like that […]
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Revenue.13
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Emily Mayer.
We are at the tipping point in terms of local inventory being advertised on the web.
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Public Support.10 Cost Basis?
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Eliot Caroom.
“Every situation where it’s a symphony model and an endowment or the government funds us, we’re worse.” says Davidson. He prefers to be a “scrappy beast” finding his own funding. Leonard Witt asks about the cost basis. Tofel says “you could mount an incredible news gathering organization for $3 million a year in a smaller […]
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Newspapers Collapsing… Due to Lack of Adequate Network?
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Adeola Oladele.
Private newspapers are collapsing. In some developing countries, having a private newspaper is gold.. an implication of real democracy in its government. But the U.S. is way ahead in the sense that it has experienced its share of having various private newspapers, and now, it’s leading in the reality of the failure of many of […]
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New Structures for News Organizations (4)–Jump the Old Model?
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Jennifer Saavedra.
Geanne Rosenberg (CUNY J-School Professor): Would it be profitable to completely shut down a community newspaper and force the audience to go online? Bob Garfield (On the Media): You can’t because the newspaper has debt and stockholders that need quarterly reports.
