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NewBizNews: What ad sales people hear

Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by .

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Recently, at CUNY, we held a roundtable for ad sales people from hyperlocal blogs to big newspapers to hear what they are hearing from local merchants. We’re wrapping up our research for the New Business Models for News Project — indeed, it was Alberto Ibargüen, head of the Knight Foundation that funded this work, who […]

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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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John Paton on newspapers' future

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by .

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Two newspaper companies hired new chiefs last week. The Star Tribune hired Michael Klingensmith, my former colleague at Entertainment Weekly, and Journal Register hired John Paton, now head of Spanish-language publisher impreMedia and a newspaperman with roots in Canada. The latter didn’t get the attention it deserved. Paton has executed a strategic vision at impreMedia, […]

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The state of the art of news

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by .

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My response to the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s study that found most original reporting in Baltimore still comes from major media: No shit. We need a study to determine this? Well, maybe we do. I think it is worthwhile to have a baseline to compare where news goes in years to come. When I […]

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Teaching entrepreneurial journalism

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by .

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On Friday, we at CUNY had the honor of playing host to a conference (call) for more than two dozen educators around the world — New York to Arizona to Berkeley to Guadalajara to London to Oslo — who are teaching or starting to teach entrepreneurial journalism. Here’s the wiki where we will continue to […]

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Signs of hope

Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by .

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David Carr wrote another good and hopeful column today (this, I told him, was his burning bush column). I’m delighted that it ended with a brief report on his jurying in my entrepreneurial journalism course at CUNY: Meanwhile, journalism schools are no longer content just to teach the inverted pyramid. A few weeks ago, I […]

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The near future

Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by .

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Xark raised fair and unfair criticism of our work at the New Business Models for News Project. I’ll respond: Xarc’s Dan Conover says that the models we presented look a lot like present models, only different. Fair and true. Our goal was to look at what news in a metro market would look like if […]

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Get off the lawn

Posted on 07. Dec, 2009 by .

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There’s one thing that Rupert Murdoch, Arianna Huffington, Steve Brill, and I agreed on last week – and and there’s probably nothing else one can imagine this group would ever find consensus around. At the two-day Federal Trade Commission “workshop” (read: hearing) that asked how journalism will “survive” (their word) in the internet age, we […]

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On Murdoch & Google and news

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by .

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I appeared on NPR’s On Point today to discuss Murdoch v. Google with Michael Wolff and Steve Brill and also got to talk about our New Business Models for News Project. You can listen here. The show’s blog quoted me thusly: But News Corp isn’t the only one making the mistake here. I think the […]

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The opportunity of bankruptcy

Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by .

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Tweet: How bankruptcy can help a newspaper get theah from heah. Don’t squander it. ** I fear that Tribune Company – and other newspaper companies – will come out of bankruptcy having squandered the opportunity it presents to rebuild from the ground up. At the New Business Models for (Local) News Summit at CUNY last […]

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