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Investing in Journalism, One Donation at a Time
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Claudia Cruz.
Anyone can participate. First, someone can leave a story tip. Second, a journalist will find the tip and create a pitch. Third, the pitch is posted on the site and the public begins to donate towards the journalism. Once the amount needed is generated the journalist will begin to write. The story will be shopped […]
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David Cohn, Founder of Spot.us
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Claudia Cruz.
David Cohn, founder of Spot.us, won a 2008 Knight Foundation Grant to start a community funded journalism site. He hopes that Spot.us reminds people that journalism is a public good and should be publicly supported.
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Planting the Seeds to Grow Scienceblogs
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Claudia Cruz.
The magazine arm, Seeds, feels comfortable saying things and Scienceblogs, is set up to respond. Bly has separated the two entity so that the advertisement models can be leveraged and so that diversification of the two products is faciliated.
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The Common Vein to Discuss Science
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Claudia Cruz.
Scienceblog brought together an online network of science experts. Bly began to contextualize the a conversation started on print with his magazine, Seed, and then continued it online.
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Adam Bly, ScienceBlogs
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Claudia Cruz.
Scienceblogs enables discussion of science issues on a global scale and currently boasts the largest online community dedicated to science.
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Dave Chase, CEO of NextNewsNet
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Claudia Cruz.
Dave Chase, CEO of NextNewsNet. Received a lot of insight from working with local merchants and insurance agents. They learned not to depend on user generated content. NextNewsNet works with small business providers. They help them get online ads.
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Karp: Creating Liquidity for News
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Claudia Cruz.
What we want to do is create a new way of advertising by creating a giant liguid marketplace for news. This would create more economic value than just one media company by itself.
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Karp: Newswires have always been about collaboration
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Claudia Cruz.
No one individual media company will be able to create a large enough network and the larger the network the more value can be created.
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Karp: Harnessing the Collective Intelligence of the Newsroom
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Claudia Cruz.
Karp believes that if newsrooms should start thinking differently about links because by gathering the links, they can create a link driven distribution center. This influences what content gets on the web.
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Scott Karp: Founder of Publish2
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Claudia Cruz.
Publish2 links journalism and link-based newswires through a cooperative effort of newsrooms and independent journalists. Publish2 wants to revamp the idea of a newswire so that the distribution is done by links therefore becoming more affordable. “It’s not too late for newspapers to get into the linking game,” said Karp.
