Tag Archives: NewBizNews
The Models: Hyperlocals & the Framework
Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
This set of spreadsheets incorporates two models: hyperlocal and the sales, support, and technology framework that we believe is necessary to optimize businesses in the ecosystem. We believe an organization that enables advertising networks and other services to support the local news ecosystem is both a sustainable business and will make individual hyperlocal news organizations […]
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The Models: New News Organization
Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
This model envisions a new, metro-wide news organization serving a market of five million people that operates on a smaller scale and performs a wide variety of tasks. It will produce original unique beat and investigative reporting and it will also work collaboratively with the other members of the ecosystem and its readers to add […]
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Requests for Revenues
Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
No, we’re not asking for donations. But, we do want to hear your ideas for new revenue opportunities for online news organizations. As we’ve been talking to news start ups from around the country, most everyone says they want to hear about new ways to make money, whether it’s to hire more reporters or just […]
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Talking Fantasy Newsroom
Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by Matthew Sollars.
Martin Langeveld over at the NiemanLab posted yesterday on the essentials he would build into a newsroom if he were starting one from scratch. His ideas include what should be obvious by now, like incorporating the url into branding and encouraging what Jarvis calls the link economy. Langeveld also suggests wikifying the news and thinking […]
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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. […]
