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Advice for German media
Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
I have an op-ed in today’s Welt Kompakt newspaper in Germany giving my advice to a German mediasphere that I see becoming more protectionist. It’s not online (ironically) but so you can see the play, a PDF of it is here and here. This is my original English text: * * * At the Müncher […]
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The balance shifts
Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
At yesterday’s New Business Models for (Local) News summit at CUNY, I ran what I called a reverse panel with big media folks – NY Times, Washington Post, Gannett, Star-Ledger, Impremedia, Politico – sitting up front but ordered to listen to the wishes and needs of the people in the room. I threatened to cover […]
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The future of business is in ecosystems
Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Last week, I said that the future of news is entrepreneurial (not institutional). Today, a sequel: The future of business is in ecosystems (not conglomerates or industries). At the Foursquare conference last week, I was struck by the miss-by-a-mile worldviews held by the chiefs of big, old conglomerates and the entrepreneurs starting new, nimble companies. […]
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Tough love for news media
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Here’s video version of the talk I keynote talk I linked below for the Munich Media Days conference a week ago. I gave them tough love, saying I was concerned about the protectionist talk I’ve heard from Germany media, not unlike one what can here in the U.S. and elsewhere. I also talked about the […]
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A checklist
Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Robert Niles at the Online Journalism Review provides a good checklist for people starting their own news sites.
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The future of news is entrepreneurial
Posted on 02. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
The future of news is entrepreneurial. There’s a lot in that statement. It says: The future of news is not institutional… The news of tomorrow has yet to be built…. The structure – the ecosystem – of news will not be dominated by a few corporations but likely will be made up of networks of […]
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Giving up on the news business
Posted on 19. Oct, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Before reaching their dangerous conclusion – recommending government supported journalism in a report called the Reconstruction of American Journalism – former Washington Post editor Leonard Downie and Columbia journalism prof Michael Schudson make some basic and, I believe, profoundly mistaken assumptions, namely: “That journalism is now at risk, along with the advertising-supported economic foundations of […]
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Hyperlocal Boston
Posted on 16. Oct, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Now that The New York Times Company has decided not to sell the Boston Globe, DailyDeal.com wonders whether the company should convert Boston to a hyperlocal-based business. Well, our Knight Foundation-funded New Business Models for News can be a roadmap. Indeed, the 5-million-person hypothetical market we worked on looks an awful lot like Boston (because, […]
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Call for local bloggers for a NewBizNews event
Posted on 15. Oct, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
I’m putting out a call for local bloggers within traveling distance from New York – and for journalists who’ve left their jobs or are thinking about leaving to start local news blogs – to attend a series of workshops at CUNY on Nov. 11. The first half of the day, we’ll be presenting and discussing […]
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NewBizNews on All Things Considered
Posted on 07. Oct, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik came to CUNY to report on the effort to find new business models for news, including our Knight Foundation funded presentation at the Aspen Institute:
