Archive for August, 2009
FOCAS: Live from Aspen
Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by Damian Ghigliotty.
The CUNY New Business Models for News Project, funded by the Knight Foundation, is presenting its work at the Aspen Institute’s Forum on Communication and Society today. (You can read about our project here and dig into the new models here.) Below is Jeff Jarvis’ presentation, which he made using new software from Prezi. Just […]
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The Models: Hyperlocals & the Framework
Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
This set of spreadsheets incorporates two models: hyperlocal and the sales, support, and technology framework that we believe is necessary to optimize businesses in the ecosystem. We believe an organization that enables advertising networks and other services to support the local news ecosystem is both a sustainable business and will make individual hyperlocal news organizations […]
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The Models: New News Organization
Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
This model envisions a new, metro-wide news organization serving a market of five million people that operates on a smaller scale and performs a wide variety of tasks. It will produce original unique beat and investigative reporting and it will also work collaboratively with the other members of the ecosystem and its readers to add […]
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The Models: Not-for-Profit News
Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
A number of promising not-for-profit news organizations, providing both national and local coverage, have launched recently. We want to show the level of resources that might be available in a given market to augment local news gathering efforts. Researching the available charitable money in a market, we picked a hypothetical bottom line of $3 million […]
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New York Times Trains Local Youth in Blogging Workshop
Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
by Mike Reicher What do you get when seasoned professional journalists train novice teenage bloggers in the tools of the trade? We’ve started to answer that question this summer at The Local, The New York Times’ collaborative blog covering neighborhoods in Brooklyn and New Jersey. Since launching in March, one of our goals at The […]
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News Innovators on the Frontline: Sun Valley Online
Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
Sun Valley Online, a news site covering the ski town of Ketchum, Idaho, launched in 2004. Dave Chase came on board as a business partner in 2006 after spending a number of years at Microsoft and working on various other media/technology projects. He is also a principal at the newly minted local news infrastructure company, […]
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News Innovators on the Frontline: San Diego News Network
Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Damian Ghigliotty.
When Neil Senturia and Barbara Bry launched San Diego News Network in March 2009, their vision was to create a nationwide news organization of local sites that could cover breaking news, politics, business, sports, lifestyle and entertainment in each respective city. After watching the San Diego Union-Tribune shed nearly half its employees over the past […]
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News Innovators on the Frontline: Pegasus News
Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
Mike Orren launched Pegasus News in 2006 with the idea that local neighborhood news is more important “than things happening on the other side of town.” Now the site covers what appears to be every neighborhood in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Although Pegasus has gone through some corporate turnover, it is now owned by Gap […]
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YouTube Makes a Local TV News Play
Posted on 05. Aug, 2009 by Damian Ghigliotty.
YouTube has big designs to take on local news broadcasting, The New York Times reported earlier this week. News Near You, which the Google-owned site introduced this spring, detects the location of its users and provides lists of geographically relevant news videos using the same IP technology as dating and weather sites. YouTube’s strategy differs […]
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The Golden Link
Posted on 05. Aug, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Thomson Reuters digital boss Chris Ahearn stands up in favor of the link economy (as opposed to someone else we know). It’s sensible talk and he suggests we have more such talk about how best to link. I agree. As soon as I can, I’ll set a date in October to hold a symposium on […]
