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Membership has its meaning
Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
In newspapers’ game of revenue roulette, there’s a lot of talk lately about their trying to create membership plans. The New York Times and the Guardian, to name two, reportedly have visions of tote bags, mugs, and events in their heads. And I think that’s a fine idea. No salvation. But a fine idea. I’ll […]
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What crisis?
Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
At the Aspen Institute FOCAS event, where we presented our CUNY New Business Models for News, there came to be an unspoken debate – that is, an idea thrown out but never really engaged – about whether there is a crisis in news and journalism. I now say that there isn’t a crisis. That’s not […]
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Original sin
Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
[Crossposted from Buzzmachine] Like priests looking for someone to sacrifice, Alan Mutter, Steve Buttry, Howard Owens, and Steve Yelvington have been on the lookout for the sin that led newspapers astray. For Mutter, it’s not charging; for Buttry, it’s not innovating; for Owens, it’s tying online dingies to print Titanics (my poetic license); for Yelvington, […]
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Hyperdistribution
Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
The newspaper industry should be sobered by Martin Langeveld’s calculations, based on the Newspaper Association of America’s misplaced bragging about Nielsen internet data, that only about a half one one percent of time spent online is spent on newspaper sites. It is clear that if journalists want to be supported – let alone have impact […]
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NewBizNews on On the Media
Posted on 22. Aug, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
On the Media’s Bob Garfield interviewed Jeff Jarvis about the CUNY New Business Models for News Project, funded by the Knight Foundation. Listen here: Jarvis made one error: the new news organization’s editorial staff after three years is 46; total is 90.
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The Aspen Presentation Archive
Posted on 20. Aug, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Here, thanks to GroundReport’s Rachel Sterne, is the archive of the presentation we made at the Aspen Institute on Monday; it starts a few minutes in. The New Business Models for News Project has been funded by the Knight Foundation. (View all the new business models.) And here, again, is the presentation, which uses new […]
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The Golden Link
Posted on 05. Aug, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Thomson Reuters digital boss Chris Ahearn stands up in favor of the link economy (as opposed to someone else we know). It’s sensible talk and he suggests we have more such talk about how best to link. I agree. As soon as I can, I’ll set a date in October to hold a symposium on […]
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Charity or Collaboration?
Posted on 19. Jul, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
The New York Times has accepted free stories from ProPublica. It has endorsed a journalist getting help from the public via Spot.US to underwrite a story that might appear at NYTimes.com. And Poynter’s Bill Mitchell says the paper is even wondering about foundation support for its work (but for perspective, I suspect one could safely […]
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State Coverage as a Worthy Charity
Posted on 22. Jun, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
There’s nothing unsexier in journalism than covering state government. “Trenton bureau” just doesn’t have the same ring as “Paris bureau,” does it? Do you know the names of your statehouse reps? I’ll confess I don’t. And so my biggest fear in the death of metro papers is the vacuum that will be left in coverage […]
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About the New Business Models for News Project
Posted on 12. Jun, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
We at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism believe that the discussion about the future of journalism — as newspapers and other news organizations find their business rapidly eroding around them — needs to be informed by facts, figures, and business specifics. That is why we created the New Business Models […]
