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10:39AM – A Moment with Charlie Sennot
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
GlobalPost.com is taking the stringer model and applying it to international reporting. Thank God. “We think that the American public is underserved by international news,” said Charlie Sennot. “We need an American voice in international news.” Sennot wants to make GlobalPost the go-to site for info-starved Americans. The question is how to pay for it. […]
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10:31AM – Everybody Hates Johnathan Rosenblum, But That's Just Fine for Him
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Don’t blame Johnathan Rosenblum for newsroom cuts. Granted, some folks at old-fashioned news organizations may have been put out to pasture, but he’s done more good for news and news organizations than most think. “You don’t need sound men. You don’t need cameramen. And any 9-year-old kin can edit broadcast-quality video,” he says. What Rosenblum […]
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10:23AM IDG's David Cohn Takes the Stage with a Little Bit of Hope!
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Cohn and IDG made the split for one of their brands. “Print was sucking the energy out of the organization,” Cohn said. “But in 12 months, Infoworld became profitable.” The people working at Infoworld didn’t do too badly either. Now they’re “aggressively innovative,” and thinking of how the audience engages with content rather than just […]
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10:16AM – Did Craigslist Destroy Newspapers?
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Newspapers don’t have a news problem: They have a marketing and distribution problem. Purcell says that they’ve been gouging readers for decades. And now, when faced with a cheaper and more direct tool like Craigslist, they’re bailing. Newspapers have split off from a marketing-centric model or “disaggregate.” So, what are we hearing: Spin off local […]
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10:09AM – Introducing Dave Morgan
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
McClatchy CEO, Gary Pruitt, says that the current decline in newspaper revenue is “cyclical.” And that’s not true at all. Big news organizations made the sausage pretty well. They were well-organized and successful: That’s why they have not been able to innovate. William Dean Singleton, former president and chief executive of Consolidated Newspapers rationalized his […]
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10:05AM – Work Smarter, Not Harder
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
CEOs of online news services want to raise revenues on their offerings. But, in order to get to the same levels as most major news organizations they’ve got to grow at 30 percent every 10 years. Not going to happen. Instead, invest in your premium content. Invest in your people. And focus on profit not […]
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10:00AM – Moving from Monopoly to Network
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
There’s three characteristics of a network: Clarity of purpose, the ability to fulfill a need and, of course, how to be cost effective. Percell’s monopoly model includes working stiffs who repurpose stories. But, in a network, you eliminate the repurposing class. They’re dinosaurs. Outsourcing to, in the case of Telegraph.co.uk, ITN, Google, Digg and Brightcove. […]
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9:56AM – New Structures for News Innovation
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Ed Percell, editor of Telegraph.co.uk, has taken the stage, championing the “Do what you do best and outsource the rest” model. Percell and Telegraph.co.uk made the decision to focus on content alone some time ago. The rest they left up to Google. Sounds great, but there’s a bigger issue behind this philosophy, such as where […]
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9:53AM – "What Would Google Do?"
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Jarvis: We’ve got to think “distributive.” Meaning that we have to innovate. Now, there are a lot of very pertinent questions to figure out first, such as, “What kind of company are we?” Yahoo thought it was a communications company. It wasn’t and it paid the price. Of course, this also means opening ourselves up […]
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9:47AM – "If the news is important, it finds me."
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Dig, Facebook, RSS feeds are audience centric. So, instead of people finding news, they become open to news that comes through to them online. Say, popups. Ewwww. But seriously, the newsroom model must evolve into a network model, such as that used by Glam.com. The network model is collaborative. The network model brings us to […]
