Archive for 'Revenue'
Chi-Town Daily Discloses Costs for Donations
Posted on 23. Jul, 2009 by Damian Ghigliotty.
The Chicago-based Chi-Town Daily News, a nonprofit metro news site that launched in December 2005, has set up a new kind of tip jar this month. As a way to pull in more funding, the site now tells readers the value of every article they read before requesting donations to support its ongoing coverage. “Reader […]
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E-commerce and News, Lessons from the UK's Telegraph
Posted on 17. Jul, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
Revenue, revenue, revenue. For good reason in this economy, all of the sites we’ve talked to so far have wanted to hear ideas for making more of it. So we’ve been a bit surprised at how few are experimenting with e-commerce, which is frequently held up as a strong potential revenue stream for online news. […]
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News Innovators on the Frontline: CityBizList
Posted on 15. Jul, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
CityBizList is a free email product sent to business people every morning in five metro areas—Baltimore, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C. Founded in 2005 by Edwin Warfield, CityBizList is aimed at the general business reader, but with an added emphasis on commercial real estate and the lawyers and bankers who serve that industry in […]
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News Innovators on the Frontline: MGoBlog
Posted on 07. Jul, 2009 by Damian Ghigliotty.
Brian Cook — a longtime University of Michigan sports fan — runs MGoBlog.com as a solo operation and brings in enough money to keep his blog up to speed with the likes of freshman quarterback Denard Robinson. Brian launched his site in December 2004 and has watched its audience grow to 100,000 unique visitors to […]
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News Innovators on the Frontline: WestSeattleBlog
Posted on 03. Jul, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
The husband-and-wife team of Patrick Sand and Tracy Record run WestSeattleBlog.com. She is the site’s primary reporter and editor, while he handles advertising sales and business development. Since January 2006, the pair have covered the bedroom community of West Seattle (over 65,000 residents) seven days a week, 365 days a year. They started selling ads […]
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News Innovators on the Frontline: DavidsonNews.net
Posted on 01. Jul, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
In the course of the coming weeks, we’re going to dig into what has worked—and what hasn’t—for news innovators across the country. These journalists and web entrepreneurs have all taken our survey, which we’re using to build the business models and identify the revenue opportunities that will sustain journalism for years to come. Take the […]
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Let a Thousand Models Bloom
Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by Peter Hauck.
Hat tip to Peter Kafka, who writes MediaMemo for All Things Digital, for sharing a business model — put together by Mark Josephson, CEO of outside.in — of a hypothetical online-only news organization. While Josephson’s metro news operation of the future sports a mighty lean staff — 20 bodies in all, of which six are “news gatherers” — it […]
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An Iranian Journalist’s Invaluable Cause
Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by Damian Ghigliotty.
Every journalist deserves to get paid for bringing new information to the public. Especially those who face direct opposition from foreign military regimes. This morning I heard an NPR piece titled ‘Bureau Tehran,’ Live From Massachusetts. The subject of the story was Iranian journalist Kelly Golnoush Niknejad, who runs her news site Tehran Bureau from […]
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MinnPost Tweets Local Ads
Posted on 26. Jun, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
MinnPost.com launched an innovative micro-blogging advertising service yesterday that they’re calling Real-Time Ads. The Minnesota-based not-for-profit created a new sidebar widget that will publish messages from an advertiser’s Twitter account or blog RSS feed, as long as it has been updated within the last 72 hours. In a post announcing the launch yesterday, MinnPost founder […]
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Shaping the Future
Posted on 26. Jun, 2009 by Damian Ghigliotty.
The rapid erosion of the newspaper business has resulted in a lot of smart folks giving new thought to the future of journalism. As part of our research for the new business models for news project, we’re providing summaries and links to reports, studies, essays and conferences that bring value to the discussion. Take a […]
