Revenue strategies
From paper to persona
“From Paper to Persona: Managing Privacy and Information Overload; Sustaining Journalism in an Attention Age,” explains how a new public-benefit collaboration could help slow the shrinking of American journalism. Because of Internet technology, mass-market advertising and the news have come unglued. For the public, information is accessible, but not always trustworthy. Because it is abundant, … Continued
Role of journalist seen as evolving to curating the stream; wasn’t it always?
Ex-network TV producer Steven Rosenbaum, in a new book, “Curation Nation: How to Win in a World Where Consumers are Creators,” argues the information stream is growing so fast we are being overwhelmed. The value of journalists will be in curating the stream, he asserts. The role is not new. ” . . . [A]s … Continued
Consensus on journalist-library collaboration begins to emerge at ‘Beyond Books’
A draft consensus statement for journalist/librarian collaboration is circulating after garnering support at “Beyond Books: News, Literacy, Democracy and America’s Libraries,” a two-day Journalism That Matters symposium in Cambridge April 6-7 co-sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. On Thursday, participants in “Beyond Books” moved to the Cambridge Public Library for a public wrapup … Continued
Yahoo: An unlikely source for a journalism stylebook?
Giving away a stylebook at the Online News Association convention, above, is Chris Barr, an editor at Yahoo Inc. Barr was supervising editor for Yahoo’s online news stylebook, which was published earlier this year. Barr says he’s talked at 12 journalism schools so far about the book, and he was surprised to learning that at … Continued
IDEA? Steve Outing has created a public Facebook Group to consider ideas for ‘membership models’
Steve Outing, in Boulder, Colo., a veteran observer and columnist on the new-media/journalism scene, has created a public Facebook Group (kind of like a mailing list but web only) to discuss ideas for “membership models” to support journalism. Here’s the public URL: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_157802460917550 One of the commentators, Chris O’Brien, makes reference to Chris Peck’s “Next … Continued
ONA ADVISORY: The Public Insight Network from Minneapolis will be out in force
One of the most innovative, ongoing projects in community and citizen media is the Public Insight Network Project launched by Andrew Haeg and Michael Skoler six years ago at Minnesota Public Radio. After a long period of careful incubation — including bulding a highly active network of engaged listeners around Minnesota — PIN is now … Continued
PAYWALL/CHARGING: NYTimes CEO’s audio interview comments at the World Editor’s Forum, Hamburg
Here is New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson at the World Editor’s Forum, Hamburg, Germany, Oct. 7, 2010, as posted by EditorsWebLog reporter/editor Emma Heald at: http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/10/audio_janet_robinson_of_the_new_york_tim.php This is the full text of the audio clip, starting after Robinson’s comments about The Times of London’s paywall. It’s clear there are a few edits between … Continued
On net neutrality: What if Eisenhower had asked private industry to build our Interstates?
We’ve been digesting and thinking about yesterday’s Google/Verizon statement about how to build out fast Internet for America — and trying to think of analogies that put the issue in terms non-geeks can understand. Over at the Mountain Area Information Network, Wally Bowen draws an excellent analogy to British property. Also, Susan Crawford at NYU’s … Continued
Coffeeshop newsroom concept catching on — two fellows working it; so is Starbucks
The idea of assigning reporters to work from coffee shops and other public spaces is gradually picking up steam. See: Coffeeshop Newsrooms Yield Stories, Sources, Understanding of Journalism at the Poynter site. Both David Cohn, one of this fall’s incoming Reynolds Fellows, and Bill Densmore, a consultant to RJI, (this post author) have been pitching the … Continued
AUDIO: Community media and the future of news
Reynolds Journalism Institute consultant Bill Densmore moderates a panel at the Alliance for Community Media in Pittsburgh: “Community Media and the Future of News.” As the decline of newspapers is felt throughout the country, could community media & technology centers be the new model for local news? Could Citizen Journalism be an opportunity for community … Continued