Archive for June, 2009
Let a Thousand Models Bloom
Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by Peter Hauck.
Hat tip to Peter Kafka, who writes MediaMemo for All Things Digital, for sharing a business model — put together by Mark Josephson, CEO of outside.in — of a hypothetical online-only news organization. While Josephson’s metro news operation of the future sports a mighty lean staff — 20 bodies in all, of which six are “news gatherers” — it […]
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An Iranian Journalist’s Invaluable Cause
Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by Damian Ghigliotty.
Every journalist deserves to get paid for bringing new information to the public. Especially those who face direct opposition from foreign military regimes. This morning I heard an NPR piece titled ‘Bureau Tehran,’ Live From Massachusetts. The subject of the story was Iranian journalist Kelly Golnoush Niknejad, who runs her news site Tehran Bureau from […]
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MinnPost Tweets Local Ads
Posted on 26. Jun, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
MinnPost.com launched an innovative micro-blogging advertising service yesterday that they’re calling Real-Time Ads. The Minnesota-based not-for-profit created a new sidebar widget that will publish messages from an advertiser’s Twitter account or blog RSS feed, as long as it has been updated within the last 72 hours. In a post announcing the launch yesterday, MinnPost founder […]
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Take Our Survey!
Posted on 26. Jun, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
We sent our survey to nearly 200 independent local and hyperlocal websites this week. We’re looking for business and editorial information from websites across the country so we can develop a set of business models and best practices to make sure news has a bright future. We’ve already gotten a great response from dozens of […]
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Shaping the Future
Posted on 26. Jun, 2009 by Damian Ghigliotty.
The rapid erosion of the newspaper business has resulted in a lot of smart folks giving new thought to the future of journalism. As part of our research for the new business models for news project, we’re providing summaries and links to reports, studies, essays and conferences that bring value to the discussion. Take a […]
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The Potential Value of Online News
Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by Damian Ghigliotty.
Here’s a sign that news still has some $ value. American newspaper consumers are willing to pay 68% of what they spend on their daily papers when it comes to online news, a PricewaterhouseCoopers study shows. Whether or not that’s enough to sustain an online-only business model (considering the lack of advertising dollars floating around […]
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State Coverage as a Worthy Charity
Posted on 22. Jun, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
There’s nothing unsexier in journalism than covering state government. “Trenton bureau” just doesn’t have the same ring as “Paris bureau,” does it? Do you know the names of your statehouse reps? I’ll confess I don’t. And so my biggest fear in the death of metro papers is the vacuum that will be left in coverage […]
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Why Hyperlocals Should Go Mobile
Posted on 18. Jun, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
Because the stories that work best on mobile are the bread and butter of hyperlocal coverage, says Mark Potts. “Mobile is really the sweetspot for local sites,” he says. “Google Traffic is never going to pick up the two-car accident downtown or stuff of interest to a small subset of people, like the little league […]
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About the New Business Models for News Project
Posted on 12. Jun, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
We at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism believe that the discussion about the future of journalism — as newspapers and other news organizations find their business rapidly eroding around them — needs to be informed by facts, figures, and business specifics. That is why we created the New Business Models […]
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Diller: Directories "still make nothing but money"
Posted on 11. Jun, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
Barry Diller spoke to PaidContent earlier this week and in talking up one of his babies, citysearch.com, he makes the case for local online directories. Of course, Diller also says the work of building those directories is “impossible.” Here’s the exchange with Staci Kramer:
