Jeff Jarvis hat sich interessante Gedanken zu neuen Business-Modellen für die News-Industrie gemacht. Einer meiner Favoriten:

Similarly, newspapers and their audiences would be best served concentrating on what they do best: local, local, local. If they gave us the local news that no one else could gather and report, they'd be worth more to us. But this, too, is a hard habit to break: not sending the 15,001st correspondent to the political conventions, not editing the already edited AP report, not printing the stock tables....

Weitere wunderbare Beispiele zum Thema von Jeff Jarvis bei BuzzMachine: New business models for news.

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Ankündigung von PJNet:

Can Trust and Quality Save Journalism?
An Interactive Conference for Journalists, Academics, and Citizen Activists
August 9, 2005; Marriott Rivercenter Hotel, San Antonio

Mit einer beeindruckenden Referenten-Liste und folgenden Fragen:

• Is the Mass News Media in a Death Spiral? Can Trust, Quality Save It?

• Will Nonprofits, New Technologies, Citizen Journalism Restore the Trust or Are They More Nails in the Coffin?

• Have Groups Long Neglected by the Main Stream Media Now Found Their Own Voices?

• Is the Roman Empire of Mass Media Disintegrating into Niche Media?

• What the News Media Future Will Look Like

Das vollständige Programm gibts hier.

[Via: PJNet ]

Interessanter Artikel zu "Collaborative Citizen Journalism" (CCJ) in der Technology Review:

The movement known as "collaborative citizen journalism" is gaining sharper focus. What kinds of partnerships will make it thrive -- and how will the mainstream media react?

Craig Newsmark, Begründer von Craiglist:

"What I see happening is community journalism will post news that the mainstream news hasn't covered," Newmark says. "But I don't know at this point. It's all a moving target. It looks like my biggest draw might be making noise and pointing people to good stuff."

Is CraigsNews Coming Soon? by Eric Hellweg

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