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10:09AM – Introducing Dave Morgan
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
McClatchy CEO, Gary Pruitt, says that the current decline in newspaper revenue is “cyclical.” And that’s not true at all. Big news organizations made the sausage pretty well. They were well-organized and successful: That’s why they have not been able to innovate. William Dean Singleton, former president and chief executive of Consolidated Newspapers rationalized his […]
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10:05AM – Work Smarter, Not Harder
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
CEOs of online news services want to raise revenues on their offerings. But, in order to get to the same levels as most major news organizations they’ve got to grow at 30 percent every 10 years. Not going to happen. Instead, invest in your premium content. Invest in your people. And focus on profit not […]
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10:00AM – Moving from Monopoly to Network
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
There’s three characteristics of a network: Clarity of purpose, the ability to fulfill a need and, of course, how to be cost effective. Percell’s monopoly model includes working stiffs who repurpose stories. But, in a network, you eliminate the repurposing class. They’re dinosaurs. Outsourcing to, in the case of Telegraph.co.uk, ITN, Google, Digg and Brightcove. […]
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9:56AM – New Structures for News Innovation
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Ed Percell, editor of Telegraph.co.uk, has taken the stage, championing the “Do what you do best and outsource the rest” model. Percell and Telegraph.co.uk made the decision to focus on content alone some time ago. The rest they left up to Google. Sounds great, but there’s a bigger issue behind this philosophy, such as where […]
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9:53AM – "What Would Google Do?"
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Jarvis: We’ve got to think “distributive.” Meaning that we have to innovate. Now, there are a lot of very pertinent questions to figure out first, such as, “What kind of company are we?” Yahoo thought it was a communications company. It wasn’t and it paid the price. Of course, this also means opening ourselves up […]
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9:47AM – "If the news is important, it finds me."
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Dig, Facebook, RSS feeds are audience centric. So, instead of people finding news, they become open to news that comes through to them online. Say, popups. Ewwww. But seriously, the newsroom model must evolve into a network model, such as that used by Glam.com. The network model is collaborative. The network model brings us to […]
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9:45AM – What is the future of the article?
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Jarvis says that the article is part of the old model. We’re past that. The new model includes: Blogs Wikis Links All are distributed widely. Hence a “decentralized” model for the future of journalism.
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9:42AM Creating Community
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Jarvis champions role of curiosity in the new model. “One of our greatest skills is not to say what we know, but to say what we don’t know. And that’s what makes networks possible.” So, in Jarvis’ view, the discussion is the end of the product: We get commentary. We get blogs. And we create […]
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9:36 – Introducing Jeff Jarvis
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
David Cohn gets applause for starting this. “The point of today is not to come up with “silver bullets” but to come out with new models and figure out where to go.” The real point is to come out of the groups with work products, new revenues and new structures. The interesting thing is that […]
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9:31AM – Morning address from Steve Shepard, Dean of CUNY GSJ
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Thanks to the MacArthur Foundation, the McCormick Foundation and the Town Foundation: All devoted to the convergence of different media in the service of journalism.
