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New Structures for News Organizations (4)–Jump the Old Model?
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Jennifer Saavedra.
Geanne Rosenberg (CUNY J-School Professor): Would it be profitable to completely shut down a community newspaper and force the audience to go online? Bob Garfield (On the Media): You can’t because the newspaper has debt and stockholders that need quarterly reports.
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New Structures for News Organizations (3)
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Jennifer Saavedra.
“How do you pay for the kind of journalism that doesn’t have revenue attached to it?” asks Willse. Edward Roussel responds by saying that you first need to “urgently” reduce the costs from this type of journalism. “It’s untrue that money can’t be made,” says Roussel
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New Structures for News Organizations (2)
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Jennifer Saavedra.
There’s agreement on one thing, so far: This new product needs to have journalism that “matters.” However, there’s disagreement on whether this new product is geographically defined, topically defined, or if the most important element is that the product needs to get to the audience that wants it and needs it.
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New Structures for News Organizations—-What is the Essence of Journalism
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Jennifer Saavedra.
“We are doing a lot of things wrong,” begins Jim Willse, editor of the Star Ledger, while talking about the current state of the newspaper industry. He then continues to speak about his own experience at the Star Ledger. “We thought we were commercially sound until recently,” says Willse. Today, 334 people showed up to […]
