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Next steps for news
Posted on 03. Nov, 2008 by David Cohn.
Thoughts about the New Business Models for News Summit from Boss Jarvis. After letting the work of the New Business Models for News Summit at CUNY sink in, I think we need to convene a working group from each of the discussions at the summit to move to the next step and build at least […]
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Next steps: One model
Posted on 03. Nov, 2008 by Jeff Jarvis.
After letting the work of the New Business Models for News Summit at CUNY sink in, I think we need to convene a working group from each of the discussions at the summit to move to the next step and build at least one concrete model. When I stopped in the session about the reorganized […]
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Notes – and what's next
Posted on 03. Nov, 2008 by Jeff Jarvis.
A few of my notes upon reflection about the New Business Models for News Summit at CUNY: * A few days after the conference, David Carr in the New York Times piled on the lamentations about more layoffs and cutbacks in the news business. On the Media continued the dirge a few days after that. […]
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Interview – Michael Rosenblum
Posted on 28. Oct, 2008 by David Cohn.
A quick video chat with Michael Rosenblum to discuss the aftermath of the New Business Models for News Summit. Michael Rosenblum – Afterthoughts from David Cohn on Vimeo.
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4:42 – New Students are the Stewards of Journalism
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Chris O’Brien from the San Jose Mercury news: I haven’t heard what the new jobs are on the business side. Apparently the journalists are much more entrepreneurial than those on the business side. Thomas Eisenmann of the Harvard Business School is surprised that journalists and business people are working so well together here. Good job.
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4:39PM – Newsroom as Classroom: See How the Sausage is Made.
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Jeff Jarvis suggests that the role of the newsroom needs to be reinterprted. Now, instead of being a place where news just emanates from, there is a need for greater training, not just on the craft of writing but in the tools of storytelling as well. Rachel Stern of Ground Report.com has been broadcasting live […]
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4:33PM – Editors Are Not the Enemy
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
There’s a bit of a disconnect between what editors roles are in the newsroom. Reporters think that they’re the enemy, but Dars of the Indiana Review says different. “Editors are responsible for the look and tone of the paper,” she said. David Cohn says that his type of journalism is different and questions whether or […]
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4:30PM – Now We Need Research
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Carl Winfield.
Persephone Miel says that there’s got to be a way for CUNY find out where the values are. Students and teachers, responsible for the continuance of journalism, should be taking stock of the metrics for now and for the future. Sounds like a plan: But what is the role of education?
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News Organization
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Rebecca Harshbarger.
I could only catch part of this meeting, due to being in class all day, but everyone seems anxious. Jim Willse, from the Star Ledger, announced that the paper would be cutting 40% of its staff by the end of the year, and everyone wanted to talk about advertising revenue. So much of newspapers’ costs […]
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Is the news room ALL crap?
Posted on 23. Oct, 2008 by Kye Shkymba.
Andrew Heyward (Marketspace LLC), the group’s moderator, sets the tone for the discussion: Let’s reinvent the modern newsroom. But first, let’s discuss if we need a newsroom at all? Soon the group splits in two – roughly said; in those being pro-building, and those being anti-building. Michael Rosenblum, Rosenblum TV, puts the latter position in […]
