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20 Aug 09

The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get at Newsless.org

  • It’s the perception that the Times is being used as a tool by various interests.

  • The Times’ lack of transparency about its process helps further this perception.


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09 Jul 09

ChicagoNow

11 Jun 09

Recovering Journalist: It's Not the News. It's the Packaging

Maybe—maybe—the thing you can charge for is the package the news comes in, not the specific news items themselves

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  • That's what people plunk down their quarters for: the package, not the story. News collected in a convenient, easy-to-use form that adds value.
  • When it's so easy to find free news all over the Web, the advantage may be in bringing it together in an efficient, attractive, easy-to-digest form, suiting the readers' needs and desires, to create something of value that they might even want to, gasp, pay for
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Net News Daily

Created and run by two 13-year-olds

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Can Computer Nerds Save Journalism? - TIME

  • "Instead of media organizations always playing catch-up, the objective should be for them to incorporate data in new and different ways from the very beginning," Gordon says, noting that, in addition to Digg, websites such as ProPublica, EveryBlock and PolitiFact have achieved this goal successfully. "It makes perfect sense to have programmers involved with this effort from the very beginning."
  • a prototype to improve readers' experience when posting comments on the Cedar Rapids Gazette's website. In an e-mail, he said of their News Mixer project: "It is, IMHO, still the only application that explores the full potential of Facebook Connect."
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How the web changed the economics of news - in all media | Online Journalism Blog

  • Many people read blogs and other UGC because they trust the person, not the ‘brand’
  • invested social capital in their communities
22 May 09

Denver - The Latest Word - Q&A with Dean Singleton, MediaNews Group CEO and Denver Post owner

  • So if you believe that pricing competition on the web will always be there, and it likely will, then you need to find other ways to generate revenue, including some pay models.
  • create some niche models that can be paid for
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21 May 09

Why journalists deserve low pay | csmonitor.com

  • If value is to be created, journalists cannot continue to report merely in the traditional ways or merely re-report the news
    that has appeared elsewhere. They must add something novel that creates value. They will have to start providing information
    and knowledge that is not readily available elsewhere, in forms that are not available elsewhere, or in forms that are more
    useable by and relevant to their audiences.
  • Finding the rights means to create and protect value will require collaboration throughout news enterprises. It is not something
    that journalists can leave to management. Journalists and managers alike will need to develop collaboration skills and create
    social relations that make it possible. Journalists will also need to acquire entrepreneurial and innovation skills that makes
    it possible for them to lead change rather than merely respond to it.
05 May 09

Technology Review: Blogs: Jason Pontin's blog: How to Save Media

  • A reader should be able to buy
    a lifetime's subscription or subscribe for a year, a month, a week, or a day. If
    it made sense, a reader should be able to buy a package of stories, or even one
    story. The price of a subscription should reflect its duration and the
    platforms on which it is delivered.
  • yet retain the fonts, graphical design, and
    illustrations and photographs of traditional media (a wonderfully rich visual
    grammar that art directors labored over for centuries).
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