Archive for 'Networks'
The model of the new media model
Posted on 03. Oct, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Leo Laporte, creator of This Week in Tech and the TWiT network of podcasts, spoke before the Online News Association this week and presented the very model of the new media company: small, highly targeted, serving a highly engaged public, and profitable. (Full disclosure: I am a panelist on TWiT’s This Week in Google show.) […]
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Non-Profits Seek a Donor Collaborative
Posted on 11. Jun, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
Newspapers aren’t the only ones looking to pool resources. Some of the non-profit news organizations that have been springing up around the country hope to create a network aimed at gathering donations. Last month, at a conference on non-profit media hosted by Duke University, Joel Kramer of MinnPost.com and Jon Sawyer of the Pulitzer Center, […]
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Coeds Create CoPress – Innovation from the Ground Up
Posted on 22. Jan, 2009 by David Cohn.
If you are ever worried about the fate of our the journalism industry take a moment to check out and appreciate CoPress – building a better ecosystem for college publications. This is a fantastic case of young journalists scratching their own itch. The group recently formed their own nonprofit and are discussing what they need […]
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News Innovation – Barcamp!!!!
Posted on 12. Jan, 2009 by David Cohn.
I have been meaning to get in touch with Jason Kristufek (a participant in the first Networked Journalism Summit) since he first proposed the idea of a journalism barcamp late last year. I was an instant fan of his proposal and I’m tickled pink that it appears to be catching on. I went to my […]
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Interview with Tom Evslin
Posted on 05. Nov, 2008 by David Cohn.
Looking over attendees for the New Business Models for News Summit you might be confused as to why Tom Evslin was there. Many of the names you would recognize as professional life-long journalists or entrepreneurs. Tom, however, is not and has never been a journalist. But his sharp understanding of networks and networked economies is […]
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Rapporteur Wrap-up – Ben Wagner for Networking Group
Posted on 28. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.
From Ben Wagner on behalf of the Networking Group. If “the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of endpoints,” then one task as digital journalists is to scale our networks — be they organically-grown, hyperlocal blogs or corporate-driven, international communities — as quickly and effectively as possible. In a […]
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Public Support for Media – Wrap-up
Posted on 27. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.
Jan Schaffer- J-Lab: rapporteur for the Public Support group. Possibilities for public support of news media are clustering in some key areas – foundation grants, member donations, targeted micro-payments, and government support. Our group discussed how some forms of public support can threaten a news operation’s independence, either by funding coverage of certain topics to […]
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Newspapers Collapsing… Due to Lack of Adequate Network?
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Adeola Oladele.
Private newspapers are collapsing. In some developing countries, having a private newspaper is gold.. an implication of real democracy in its government. But the U.S. is way ahead in the sense that it has experienced its share of having various private newspapers, and now, it’s leading in the reality of the failure of many of […]
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Network of Newsrooms?!?
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Adeola Oladele.
There’s a focus on linking Newrooms together across the city/state/globe… to exchange ideas… “There’s a public exchange of videos among some stations in Europe,” said Christiana Falcone, Wolrd Economic Forum, an example of journalist drawing closer to having a network for their newsrooms. Should this be encouraged among journalism organizations in general? Someone responded that […]
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What consumers want… Networking…
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Adeola Oladele.
“The greater the quality and quantity of the content, the greater the audience.” Thomas, Eisenmann, Harvard Business School. People go to google, if they don’t find it, they go to Yahoo The key is to make sure you’re meeting the needs of the audience. That’s what these two giants (Google & Yahoo) are doing. Some […]
