Tag Archives: Knight Foundation
Counting on Membership, Redrawing our Not-for-Profit Model
Posted on 23. Sep, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
We’ve heard a fair bit of criticism in recent weeks that the revenue estimates (mostly in advertising) in some of our for-profit models were far too high. So, we are surprised to hear from Jim Barnett that the membership projections in our not-for-profit model are too low. By his lights, a not-for-profit like the one […]
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Is journalism an industry?
Posted on 18. Sep, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Journalism is a business – that is how it is going to sustain itself; that is a key precept of the New Business Models for News Project, funded by the Knight Foundation. But is it still an industry dominated by companies and employment? In the first part of his analysis of the news business, BusinessWeek […]
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The Survey Results
Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
The foundation of the business models we built this summer was data culled from an online survey we conducted of web entrepreneurs. We asked online startups from across the country to give us a confidential glimpse at the nuts and bolts of their businesses. We sent invitations to hundreds of online news organizations, from hyperlocal […]
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NewBizNews in the Guardian
Posted on 13. Sep, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
In addition to the podcast (below), the New Business Models for News Project is the subject of my column in the Guardian’s media section. Here’s the full text: There is a future for news – a sustainable and once-again profitable future with the prospect of expanding and improving journalism by taking it deeper into our […]
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NewBizNews on the Guardian MediaTalkUSA podcast
Posted on 13. Sep, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
The latest edition of the Guardian MediaTalkUSA podcast, which I present, features the work of CUNY’s New Business Models for News Project and discussion with two folks who know hyperlocal: Deb Galant, founder of Baristanet, whom I crowned the queen of hyperlocal; and Jim Willse, editor of the Star-Ledger (who begins the podcast confessing that […]
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NewBizNews on the BBC
Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by Jeff Jarvis.
Peter Day, one of the best radio interviewers I know and the very best in business coverage, talks about media mayhem this week and I got a chance to discuss the New Business Models for News Project with him. (The New Business Models for News Project has been funded by the Knight Foundation.) Take a […]
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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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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.
