Archive for October, 2008
Networks for Bloggers/Publishers
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Adeola Oladele.
The standard of blogs joining networks have gone down. At first people started blogging because they believe strongly in a cause and feel like everyone should know about it. Today, people blog just about anything. Some Reasons why people blog: (Chris Ahearn – Thomson Reuters) To make money To express themselves To be heard To […]
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New Structures for News Organizations (2)
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Jennifer Saavedra.
There’s agreement on one thing, so far: This new product needs to have journalism that “matters.” However, there’s disagreement on whether this new product is geographically defined, topically defined, or if the most important element is that the product needs to get to the audience that wants it and needs it.
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Revenue.8 How much do brands matter?
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Emily Mayer.
Brands cost money to build, 100 million for thestreet.com. The debate goes on…
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In the newsroom: Hassell don't have the foggiest idea
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Kye Shkymba.
The group moves on. Before we decide what the future newsroom look like we have to define our product. We need to know what kind of content we want to produce before we can agree on a newsroom organization. Andrew Heyward suggests, after some discussion, to settle on this: We’re a startup. We’ve bought a […]
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Revenue.7
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Emily Mayer.
News is now about curation. Kramer: media companies will have to take responsibility of showing people the difference between news, press releases, and “amateur journalism” where often this content can be aggregated and in business for example, people can get burned. This makes revenue models even more difficult.
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Public Support.6 A New Model?
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Eliot Caroom.
Jay Rosen asks about ideas arising for a new model for funding public journalism. David Cohn of Spot.Us says their stories are funded with average donations of $33. Funding for stories has slowed since the economic crisis. “Normally people don’t think about donating to journalism,” Cohn says. “Unless you’re an accredited brand like NPR.” […]
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Effects of Being Actively involved in a Local Network:
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Adeola Oladele.
Some local bloggers don’t really contribute to the network they join, they feels like they don’t need to be an audience in the network. They join but don’t contribute. Such bloggers are encouraged to participate actively. Contributing in a local network can boost it to become a global network. Big things start little. Tom Evslin, […]
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New Structures for News Organizations—-What is the Essence of Journalism
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Jennifer Saavedra.
“We are doing a lot of things wrong,” begins Jim Willse, editor of the Star Ledger, while talking about the current state of the newspaper industry. He then continues to speak about his own experience at the Star Ledger. “We thought we were commercially sound until recently,” says Willse. Today, 334 people showed up to […]
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Kramer: Advertising World Way Behind News World
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Emily Mayer.
Advertisers are having trouble figuring out what content to create and how to get it to people on the web. Everything on all ends, news, advertising, is in a period of transition.
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Revenue.6
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Emily Mayer.
You can’t compare internet revenues to print revenues. The scales are different. Everyone is trying to scale revenue up to cost rather than scale cost down to revenue, which is what happens with the web. How can we make 1/10 of one penny on a zero-cost model?
