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Next steps: One model

Posted on 03. Nov, 2008 by .

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After letting the work of the New Business Models for News Summit at CUNY sink in, I think we need to convene a working group from each of the discussions at the summit to move to the next step and build at least one concrete model. When I stopped in the session about the reorganized […]

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Notes – and what's next

Posted on 03. Nov, 2008 by .

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A few of my notes upon reflection about the New Business Models for News Summit at CUNY: * A few days after the conference, David Carr in the New York Times piled on the lamentations about more layoffs and cutbacks in the news business. On the Media continued the dirge a few days after that. […]

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Charges to the groups

Posted on 13. Oct, 2008 by .

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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 […]

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Setting the table

Posted on 12. Oct, 2008 by .

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Here is a first draft of a presentation I plan to give at the start of the conference to set context. Fear not, I don’t go through it line-by-line; I added more detail because I’m posting it here. The slides at the end are the assignments for the groups, which I’ll also flesh out more […]

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Welcome to the NewBizNews Summit

Posted on 09. Oct, 2008 by .

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Welcome to the New Business Models for News Summit at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, held on Oct. 23, 2008 and funded by the MacArthur Foundation with followup work funded by the McCormick Foundation. We at CUNY believe that finding, sharing, and creating new business for news is an urgent need in journalism – […]

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The Big Buckets

Posted on 14. Oct, 2007 by .

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Having never organized a conference, I was nervous about so many things before the Networked Journalism Summit we held at CUNY on Wednesday (thanks to the MacArthur Foundation). I think it went off well. Scott Anderson of Tribune put together a good collection of summary bullets. The students blogged the sessions at NewsInnovation.com and we’ll […]

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On On the Media

Posted on 13. Oct, 2007 by .

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Here’s Bob Garfield’s report on the Summit on On the Media.

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Leading up to the Networked Journalism Summit

Posted on 09. Oct, 2007 by .

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Wednesday morning, the Networked Journalism Summit opens at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. Students will be liveblogging at this summit blog and I’ll ask the participants to tag their posts, photos, videos, etc. “netj.” Rachel Sterne from Ground Report also plans to broadcast from the summit. Jay Rosen beats them to the punch tonight with […]

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