Archive for 'Coverage'

Entrepreneurial journalism on the air

Posted on 17. Jan, 2010 by .

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On this week’s On the Media, Bob Garfield interviews me about CUNY’s entrepreneurial journalism program and the idea of teaching journalism students business. See our conference (call) with J-schools around the world that are starting to teach entrepreneurial journalism. We also discussed the New Business Models for News Project. (Note that our entrepreneurial journalism course […]

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NewBizNews on All Things Considered

Posted on 07. Oct, 2009 by .

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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:

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NewBizNews on MPR

Posted on 28. Sep, 2009 by .

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I joined Alan Mutter on Minnesota Public Radio this morning talking about new business models for news. Mentions of the project and the discussion at the Knight-Foundation-funded Aspen Institute presentation. Have a listen: /**/

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NewBizNews in the Guardian

Posted on 13. Sep, 2009 by .

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In addition to the podcast (below), the New Business Models for News Project is the subject of my column in the Guardian’s media section. Here’s the full text: There is a future for news – a sustainable and once-again profitable future with the prospect of expanding and improving journalism by taking it deeper into our […]

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NewBizNews on the Guardian MediaTalkUSA podcast

Posted on 13. Sep, 2009 by .

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The latest edition of the Guardian MediaTalkUSA podcast, which I present, features the work of CUNY’s New Business Models for News Project and discussion with two folks who know hyperlocal: Deb Galant, founder of Baristanet, whom I crowned the queen of hyperlocal; and Jim Willse, editor of the Star-Ledger (who begins the podcast confessing that […]

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NewBizNews on the BBC

Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by .

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Peter Day, one of the best radio interviewers I know and the very best in business coverage, talks about media mayhem this week and I got a chance to discuss the New Business Models for News Project with him. (The New Business Models for News Project has been funded by the Knight Foundation.) Take a […]

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NewBizNews on On the Media

Posted on 22. Aug, 2009 by .

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On the Media’s Bob Garfield interviewed Jeff Jarvis about the CUNY New Business Models for News Project, funded by the Knight Foundation. Listen here: Jarvis made one error: the new news organization’s editorial staff after three years is 46; total is 90.

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The Aspen Presentation Archive

Posted on 20. Aug, 2009 by .

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Here, thanks to GroundReport’s Rachel Sterne, is the archive of the presentation we made at the Aspen Institute on Monday; it starts a few minutes in. The New Business Models for News Project has been funded by the Knight Foundation. (View all the new business models.) And here, again, is the presentation, which uses new […]

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Never Quit and Be Honest With Yourself – An Interview with Tristan Harris

Posted on 07. Jan, 2009 by .

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I’ve had the good fortune to run into Tristan Harris and finding out that we live in close proximity. Tristan is the founder of Apture. Similar to two other Stanford computer scientist, Tristan understands and wants to improve how people find information on the web. Apture allows reporters to link out easily without necessarily losing […]

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"How Joe the Plumber and Google saved News"

Posted on 29. Oct, 2008 by .

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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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