Archive for 'Money'
Original sin
Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
[Crossposted from Buzzmachine] Like priests looking for someone to sacrifice, Alan Mutter, Steve Buttry, Howard Owens, and Steve Yelvington have been on the lookout for the sin that led newspapers astray. For Mutter, it’s not charging; for Buttry, it’s not innovating; for Owens, it’s tying online dingies to print Titanics (my poetic license); for Yelvington, […]
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Interview – Bill Mitchell from Poynter
Posted on 27. Jan, 2009 by David Cohn.
Bill Mitchell has been at the Poynter Institute for ten years. As one of the premier institutions of traditional journalism I’m curious what the internal happenings are there. How does an organization that trains professional journalists handle on one hand the radical disintegration of the professionalized class and on the other hand embrace the larger […]
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Scott Meyer – This Too Will Pass
Posted on 14. Dec, 2008 by David Cohn.
Scott Meyer from Warburg Pincus talks to us about the future of advertising, how to grade a successful startup and is kind enough to give us a positive vision of journalism’s future.
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Alan Mutter – The Next Six Months for Newspapers
Posted on 24. Nov, 2008 by David Cohn.
Alan Mutter’s blog “Reflections of a Newsosaur” is a must read about the economics of newspapers. It is also one of the most depressing blogs out there right now. Alan doesn’t hold back any punches. He only serves cold dishes of reality. At this time, however, the view is merited and contains important information to […]
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Welcome the Information Valet Project – Bill Densmore
Posted on 03. Nov, 2008 by David Cohn.
The New Business Models for News Summit is actually the second in a series of events. The first “Networked Journalism Summit” included Bill Densmore who is now working on his own project trying to tackle the revenue issue. (For those keeping track, that’s one video using Viddler, the other two using Vimeo and Blip. Have […]
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"How Joe the Plumber and Google saved News"
Posted on 29. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.
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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Revenue
Posted on 10. Oct, 2007 by Benjamin Levisohn.
Because even journalists need to eat. This session features: Jeff Burkett of WashingtonPost.com: Began from a series of blog posts Burkett wrote addressing the question of how to place advertiser’s content that doesn’t fit on the paper or website of a traditional news organization with its emphasis on reporting timely news. The Blogroll program that […]
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Jennifer Carroll – Gannett
Posted on 02. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: In the past year Gannett has undergone the largest transformation in the company’s 102-year history. All 86 papers across the country, except for USA Today, have changed from traditional news centers to 24-hour, local, multimedia “Information centers.” The blueprint for the change cited seven areas that each Gannett paper would be required […]
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Jeff Burkett – WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive blogs
Posted on 02. Oct, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: The idea that eventually became the Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (WPNI) Blogroll Ad Network formed a year ago this August. It began from a series of blog posts Burkett wrote addressing the question of how to place advertiser’s content that doesn’t fit on the paper or website of a traditional news organization with its […]
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Jane Hamsher – FireDogLake
Posted on 28. Sep, 2007 by David Cohn.
Introduction and Narrative: FireDogLake is an unabashed liberal blog that started in the wake of the 2004 election. Jane Hamsher, a movie producer, created a simple blogspot blog to collect the posts she had written on her personal Daily Kos blog. “That was all it was supposed to be,” says Hamsher. Today, however, her blog […]
