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Interview – Dave Chase and Experimenting in the Revenue Side
Posted on 31. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.
May the post Summit interviews continue. This one with Dave Chase from NewWest and Sun Valley Online. (Learn more about NewWest from this interview with Jonathan Weber from the 2007 Summit) Click To Play [Disclaimer: The audio isn’t perfect. This is interview #2 via Skype. I’m using iShowU to record my screen. I will soon […]
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Sustainability: Reporting back from the New Business Models for News Summit
Posted on 30. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.
[From Chris O’Brien with the Next Newsroom Project] The biggest challenge the news industry faces these days is creating a new business model to sustain journalism as we move forward. Digital tools have created enormous opportunity to tell stories in new ways and forge deeper connections with our communities. But once you get past that, […]
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"How Joe the Plumber and Google saved News"
Posted on 29. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.
A Readout from the Revenue Group by Scott Meyer The august Revenue group came out feeling that there are opportunities, but no single solution to the revenue puzzle. Fred Wilson, moderator, led off by polling the group for potential new revenue models. We came up with quite a long list (see end of post). From […]
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Interview – Michael Rosenblum
Posted on 28. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.
A quick video chat with Michael Rosenblum to discuss the aftermath of the New Business Models for News Summit. Michael Rosenblum – Afterthoughts from David Cohn on Vimeo.
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Rapporteur Wrap-up – Ben Wagner for Networking Group
Posted on 28. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.
From Ben Wagner on behalf of the Networking Group. If “the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of endpoints,” then one task as digital journalists is to scale our networks — be they organically-grown, hyperlocal blogs or corporate-driven, international communities — as quickly and effectively as possible. In a […]
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Public Support for Media – Wrap-up
Posted on 27. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.
Jan Schaffer- J-Lab: rapporteur for the Public Support group. Possibilities for public support of news media are clustering in some key areas – foundation grants, member donations, targeted micro-payments, and government support. Our group discussed how some forms of public support can threaten a news operation’s independence, either by funding coverage of certain topics to […]
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To Be Efficient, Start From Zero
Posted on 27. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.
From John Hassell – Star-Ledger, rapporteur for the News Efficiencies group. We were the fun group — the cost-cutters. Charged with finding new efficiencies for newsrooms, we struggled a bit to come up with a model that would produce useful lessons. Ultimately, we decided to focus on a market like Philadelphia or Dallas and, rather […]
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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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Participants for the Second Networked Journalism Summit
Posted on 13. Sep, 2008 by David Cohn.
It was a year ago that we organized the first Networked Journalism Summit at City University of New York’s Journalism School. This year’s summit will focus on business models and the future of journalism. For the latest list of participants and their assignments please click here.
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The Future of TV News in Jersey
Posted on 28. Jul, 2008 by David Cohn.
From Boss Jarvis. “The Star-Ledger in New Jersey just broadcast its first live, daily noon news show on the web and I’m delighted to report that it bears no resemblance to television. That was the point….This is the only contribution I made to the project: I introduced them in Michael Rosenblum and the chemistry was […]
