Last night, I was browsing this year’s public Knight News Challenge entries ahead of the midnight deadline to enter, and I caught myself thinking about what the project doesn’t fund when it comes to supporting journalism.
And the answer appears to be business models.
My friends at the Foundation might dispute this, or maybe not, but rather [...]
All about news-business
What I would fund: An imaginary challenge for news business models
December 16, 2009
Clay Shirky on micropayments for online news
February 10, 2009
I am very specifically not enjoying the current wave of handwringing over whether or not some version of micropayments, online subscription, or paywalls could work for typical U.S. news organizations.
But here’s Clay Shirky:
“The essential thing to understand about small payments is that users don’t like being nickel-and-dimed. We have the phrase ‘nickel-and-dimed’ because this dislike [...]
Carnival of Journalism: Are we asking the right questions about online revenue models?
January 19, 2009
As is my habit, I’m running behind on my Carnival of Journalism post this month, set to the timely and tuneful whistles and bangs of talk about whether a newspaper’s online revenue could support the newsroom, how long the newspaper of record will keep the press running, and what a major metro in a failed [...]
Thoughts on the Tribune bankruptcy
December 9, 2008
I came back to an office in the suburbs of Chicago yesterday from a lunch with colleagues to the news that The Tribune Company had filed for bankruptcy. (A journalist told me. Pretty sure it was the NYTimes Dealbook blog I spotted on her screen.)
Thoughts:
This has little to do with Sam Zell’s abrasive attitude, or [...]
Community-funded news launches at Spot.Us
November 10, 2008
Fellow Knight News Challenge 2008 winner David Cohn took the wraps off the latest iteration of Spot.Us over the last few days, launching an engine for community-funded reporting from donation to publication.
Here’s the explanatory video:
Spot.Us – Community Funded Reporting Intro from Digidave on Vimeo.
I love the idea that Spot.Us could do at least three jobs:
Provide [...]