Archive for December, 2009

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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NewBizNews Conference Videos: Services & Partners (cont.)

Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by .

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Representatives from a number of companies gave brief presentations (followed by Q & A) on how hyperlocal sites can benefit from their services. Outside.in (Mark Josephson) ______________ GameChanger (Ted Sullivan) ______________ Buzzr.com (Ed Sussman) ______________ Transparensee (Alex Acree, Steve Lavine) ______________ Adify (Jim Larrison) ______________________________

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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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NewBizNews Conference Videos: Services & Partners

Posted on 03. Dec, 2009 by .

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Representatives from a number of companies gave brief presentations (followed by Q & A) on how hyperlocal sites can benefit from their services. PaperG (Victor Wong) ______________ Spot.us (David Cohn) ______________ SeeClickFix (Ben Berkowitz) ______________ GrowthSpur (Mark Potts)

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NewBizNews Conference Videos: Next Steps — What We Heard, What We Need

Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by .

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At the conclusion of the day-long event, conference participants set the agenda for the continuing conversation:

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NewBizNews Conference Videos: Partnerships with Local Media

Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by .

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Jeff Jarvis moderates this “reverse panel,” featuring questions from the conference participants to a group of media company executives.

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