Archive for October, 2008
10:00AM – Moving from Monopoly to Network
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
There’s three characteristics of a network: Clarity of purpose, the ability to fulfill a need and, of course, how to be cost effective. Percell’s monopoly model includes working stiffs who repurpose stories. But, in a network, you eliminate the repurposing class. They’re dinosaurs. Outsourcing to, in the case of Telegraph.co.uk, ITN, Google, Digg and Brightcove. […]
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9:56AM – New Structures for News Innovation
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Ed Percell, editor of Telegraph.co.uk, has taken the stage, championing the “Do what you do best and outsource the rest” model. Percell and Telegraph.co.uk made the decision to focus on content alone some time ago. The rest they left up to Google. Sounds great, but there’s a bigger issue behind this philosophy, such as where […]
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9:53AM – "What Would Google Do?"
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Jarvis: We’ve got to think “distributive.” Meaning that we have to innovate. Now, there are a lot of very pertinent questions to figure out first, such as, “What kind of company are we?” Yahoo thought it was a communications company. It wasn’t and it paid the price. Of course, this also means opening ourselves up […]
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9:47AM – "If the news is important, it finds me."
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Dig, Facebook, RSS feeds are audience centric. So, instead of people finding news, they become open to news that comes through to them online. Say, popups. Ewwww. But seriously, the newsroom model must evolve into a network model, such as that used by Glam.com. The network model is collaborative. The network model brings us to […]
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9:45AM – What is the future of the article?
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Jarvis says that the article is part of the old model. We’re past that. The new model includes: Blogs Wikis Links All are distributed widely. Hence a “decentralized” model for the future of journalism.
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9:42AM Creating Community
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Jarvis champions role of curiosity in the new model. “One of our greatest skills is not to say what we know, but to say what we don’t know. And that’s what makes networks possible.” So, in Jarvis’ view, the discussion is the end of the product: We get commentary. We get blogs. And we create […]
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9:36 – Introducing Jeff Jarvis
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
David Cohn gets applause for starting this. “The point of today is not to come up with “silver bullets” but to come out with new models and figure out where to go.” The real point is to come out of the groups with work products, new revenues and new structures. The interesting thing is that […]
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9:31AM – Morning address from Steve Shepard, Dean of CUNY GSJ
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Thanks to the MacArthur Foundation, the McCormick Foundation and the Town Foundation: All devoted to the convergence of different media in the service of journalism.
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Working Groups for New Business Models for News
Posted on 13. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.
Every participant at the New Business Models for News Summit will be part of a working group in the second half of the day where they will discuss topics from the morning in depth. Jeff Jarvis has already described the specific charges to each group. We’ve tried to create diverse groups that allow play participants […]
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Charges to the groups
Posted on 13. Oct, 2008 by Jeff Jarvis.
After presentations on network models and new structures for news companies plus a lightening round of presentation by entrepreneurs and executives who are executing new models, we will form into Aspen-Institute-like groups (without the sylvan scenery) to tackle five assignments in the afternoon. Their rappateurs and leaders will report back to the entire group with […]
