Archive for November, 2009
The opportunity of bankruptcy
Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
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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Next Steps: What We Heard, What We Need
Posted on 19. Nov, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
At the end of our New Business Models for (Local) News Conference last week we asked a question we’ve been asking since our first go-round three years ago: What’s next? What do we, as practitioners of journalism, need to do to help sustain journalism in this new age? It seems there is still a simple […]
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NewBizNews Conference Follow-up
Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by Peter Hauck.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the New Business Models for (Local) News Conference and HyperCamp on Wednesday, November 11. A lot of ground was covered in the numerous panels and we’ll keep the discussion going here on newsinnovation.com with upcoming posts and video clips. Shout out to Ted Mann of inJersey/Gannett and Jim Schachter […]
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Advice for German media
Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
I have an op-ed in today’s Welt Kompakt newspaper in Germany giving my advice to a German mediasphere that I see becoming more protectionist. It’s not online (ironically) but so you can see the play, a PDF of it is here and here. This is my original English text: * * * At the Müncher […]
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The balance shifts
Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
At yesterday’s New Business Models for (Local) News summit at CUNY, I ran what I called a reverse panel with big media folks – NY Times, Washington Post, Gannett, Star-Ledger, Impremedia, Politico – sitting up front but ordered to listen to the wishes and needs of the people in the room. I threatened to cover […]
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The future of business is in ecosystems
Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Last week, I said that the future of news is entrepreneurial (not institutional). Today, a sequel: The future of business is in ecosystems (not conglomerates or industries). At the Foursquare conference last week, I was struck by the miss-by-a-mile worldviews held by the chiefs of big, old conglomerates and the entrepreneurs starting new, nimble companies. […]
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Livestream: NewBiz Conference
Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
Our third annual summit on the future of news is getting started. Today it’s all about local. We’ll be tweeting all day, too. Hit us up with questions and comments, the hashtag is #newbiz. Conference details and schedule are here. UPDATE: For those of you who are wondering, here is a link to the models […]
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NewBizNews Conference Schedule: 11/11/09
Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by Peter Hauck.
Take a look at the latest lineup for tomorrow’s New Business Models for (Local) News Conference and HyperCamp.
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Tough love for news media
Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Here’s video version of the talk I keynote talk I linked below for the Munich Media Days conference a week ago. I gave them tough love, saying I was concerned about the protectionist talk I’ve heard from Germany media, not unlike one what can here in the U.S. and elsewhere. I also talked about the […]
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Updated Schedule for NewBiz News HyperCamp
Posted on 04. Nov, 2009 by Peter Hauck.
We’ve added some excellent speakers to the upcoming New Business Models for (Local) News Conference and HyperCamp, scheduled for November 11 at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Take a look at the updated lineup.
