“We don’t make any money and we’re not designed to make money,” the Tyee’s David Beers said in this 2008 interview with the Chicago Reader. That business philosophy didn’t stop BCBusiness from naming the Tyee one of the province’s most innovative companies. How do you produce quality journalism that you give away for free? In…
“There is so much misunderstanding flying around about the economics of content on the web and the role of Google in the web’s content economy that it’s making my head hurt. So let’s see if we can straighten things out.”
The discussion about the aggregation and distribution of content on the web heated up this week when the Associated Press announced plans to “launch an industry initiative” designed “to protect news content” online. The announcement — characterized by the New York Times‘ Saul Hansell as a “war on search engines and aggregators” — drew considerable…
In a poll of 45 prominent “media insiders,” conducted by The Atlantic and National Journal, two in three (65 per cent) say the Internet is hurting journalism more than it’s helping, and 34 percent say it has helped, the magazines report. See The Atlantic and National Journal.
“Perhaps it’s a bit cliché for a panel about the future of news to discuss how humans and computers will interact, but the good news is that the future of journalism includes humans. The tricky part will be figuring out how to pay for them.”
“Last night I chaired a debate at the Frontline Club on the future of regional journalism, with panellists Roy Greenslade (The Guardian), Keith Sutton (former editor of the Carlisle News & Star, Jon Slattery (former deputy editor of Press Gazette and William Yarker (media director of Deloitte)”
“Dwayne Spradlin is CEO of InnoCentive, a company which has been building and managing crowdsourcing platforms since 2001. I asked him what news organisations could learn from InnoCentive’s experiences:”
The New York Times has launched its “Global Edition,” combining the international reporting of the Times and the International Herald Tribune to provide a “24/7 flow of geopolitical, business, sports and fashion coverage from a distinctly global perspective.” But, but, but … I thought that was the purpose of the IHT? Indeed it was —…
Thanks to Reportr.net for sharing a classroom discussion. “The director of CBC Radio 3, Steve Pratt, spoke to my students taking the first-year undergraduate stream in New Media and Society at the University of British Columbia, about the station’s multiplatform media strategy.”
The Tyee asks: “Could New Breed of ‘Low Profit’ Firms Save Our News Media?” A story considers whether hybrid ownership models, now operating in US and UK using charitable and private capital, might work in Canada.