Tag Archives: Aspen Institute

FOCAS: Live from Aspen

Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by .

10

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 […]

Continue Reading

The Models: Hyperlocals & the Framework

Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by .

16

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 […]

Continue Reading

The Models: New News Organization

Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by .

6

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 […]

Continue Reading

The Models: Not-for-Profit News

Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by .

7

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 […]

Continue Reading