Posted in business models, death of journalism on Apr 1st, 2009
I have picked out three key points and their implications from this excellent post, “A Simple Model for Online Journalism” by Jonathan Weber. I know you’re just dying to read them! Here we go…..
Posted in business models, impact, infrastructure, musings, progressive media on Mar 3rd, 2009
I’ve been following the tweets coming out of @FishbowlNY as they faithfully cover MPA Magazines 24/7 Conference Fifth Digital Conference ‘Navigating a New Reality.’.
I’m posting some screen shots of their tweets, because, well, I can’t retweet them all!
This sounds familiar. Sorta like what The Media Consortium is doing for its members?
Posted in business models, infrastructure, musings on Jan 15th, 2009
Columbia Journalism Review wrote a piece on the new international news web site Global Post. I’m still deciding if I like the look and feel of the web site, but their journalism and business model infrastructure is fascinating. Here are some major highlights.
Posted in business models, death of print, musings on Dec 30th, 2008
In the wake of Black Wednesday–where book publishers conducted massive firings and hiring freezes–both the New York Times and Salon.com have written a few persepectives on the demise of the traditional book industry.
Jason Boog of Salon.com is calling it “the end of days” for the book industry and questions if and how it [...]
Posted in business models, death of print on Dec 4th, 2008
Newspaper and newspaper groups are likely to default on their debt and go out of business next year — leaving “several cities” with no daily newspaper at all, Fitch Ratings says in a report on media released Wednesday.
So says a new article from Editor and Publisher.
My first thought upon reading. “Holy crap.” [...]
Posted in business models, progressive media on Sep 16th, 2008
Bitch, one of my favorite all time feminist magazines, needs $40,000 to survive. Please donate, send around to people you know. I’m hitting the button to donate $100 right now.
The irony is that I’m sitting at the Park Center for Independent Media’s First symposium on The Future of Independent Media. The [...]
Posted in business models, multiplatform, web 2.0 on Aug 12th, 2008
Once again my delicious integration with this site has gone all wonky (where is the tech goddess when I need her?). So I thought I’d do a quick round up of some of my favorite links over the last couple days. You can also always look at the right hand side bar as [...]
Posted in advertising, business models, infrastructure, marketing on Jul 22nd, 2008
Two interesting posts at Advertising Age in the last 24 hours–both taking different angles on how to deal with the fracturing media and marketing markets. The first, looks at how media properties must create partnerships, specifically communication and marketing partnerships that have specific audience reach, that together can wrap and intersect across the collective [...]
Posted in business models on Jun 25th, 2008
Jeff Jarvis announced that City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, received a $3 million matching grant from the Tow Foundation to create a Center for Journalistic Innovation
Our idea is to start an incubator to help support new products, businesses, platforms, technologies, and standards from new companies — some that will be started [...]
Posted in business models, media reform on Apr 11th, 2008
Ok–this is too much. Can’t we call monopoly?
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Update: Today’s New York Post has more details.. Here are a couple choice quotes.
But the complexity of the different scenarios being discussed - which range from a Yahoo!-AOL tie-up that would outsource search advertising to Google, to a new company spawned from Yahoo!, [...]