Tag: news organization
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Listen to Bob
A week ago I mentioned the talk that Bob Cauthorn gave last month in Berkeley. You can watch a webcast of that talk here, but I just finished listening to a talk he gave in 2005. Oh my. Bob knows what he’s talking about. Let’s just say: Bob answers, in this talk, all the questions…
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No really, listen to your readers
Jeff Jarvis runs down another list of advisements to local news organizations trying to stay relevant online. “7. Start a Digg edition. Go ahead and make your front page. But allow readers to tell you what they think is most important on their front page and let that guide your resource and news judgments.” I…
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Billionaire Burkle is my kind of newspaper tycoon
If you haven’t been following the saga of the Knight Ridder orphans, the 12 newspapers back up for sale after being purchased by McClatchy, you’re missing a great show. Early last week, the LA Times reported that the bid backed by billionaire Ron Burkle might be the frontrunner in the race to buy some or…
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Katie, Katie, Katie: Why the anchor is still important
A handful of New Media pundits have been questioning the wisdom CBS had in hiring Katie Couric away from the Today Show to plant her in the anchor’s chair on the evening news. Granted, CBS is spending gobs of money they could be putting into other projects, but think about this: With more unbundled media…
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Your paperboy called. He says he’s made of fiberoptic cable. And your micropayment is late.
Here’s why the “but-I-like-inky-fingers” crowd should relax: After most news organizations get their online operations in full swing, but before newsprint goes completely extinct, e-paper will emerge as the daily medium for information. This is old news, but with all the hand-wringing over what to do about a business model for the new newspaper, I…
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So who do we lock in the room with a whiteboard and a laptop…
…to figure out the answer to the $4.5 billion question: “What’s the new business model for newspapers?” At last night’s Who Needs Ink? panel discussion, everyone punted on that question, but Jerry Ceppos (to my delight) again insisted that newspapers need to stop screwing around and devote a large chunk of their staff to the…
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Who Needs Ink? A panel discussion on the Future of Newspapers
Commonwealth Club event at San Jose City Hall: Who Needs Ink? Who’s here? Ex-Mercury News tech writer Dan Gillmor, currently of various citizen journalism initiatives Jerry Ceppos, ex-Knight Ridder news executive (and Merc alum) Peter Appert, a Goldman Sachs analyst Joan Walsh, Salon‘s editor-in-chief Jim Bettinger, communications prof from Stanford (and Merc alum) is moderating…
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Who Needs Ink? Ceppos, Gillmor, and more at a panel talk tonight, free for students
There’s a Commonwealth Club event on the Future of Newspapers tonight at San Jose City Hall. It’ll cost non-members $15, which I think is a little weird for a public event at City Hall, but whatever. It’s free for students, so check that link and read the fine print. I called the number and left…
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The Guardian gets it
I’m passing along, thanks to Jeff Jarvis, this speech (mp3) by Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian newspaper in England. It’s about the future present of newspapers in the Internet age, or the blog years, or the time-of-the-great-podding, or the “it’s Craig’s fault” days. Whatever you want to call it, it’s worth a listen or…
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The Mercury News, Silicon Valley, and the Future of Newspapers
It’s getting fun. Seriously, these could be the best of times for the future of newspapers, with twelve orphans out there right now just waiting to be transformed into… well, to be transformed into whatever’s coming next in mass media. Dan Gillmor floated the idea that Yahoo could swoop in from Sunnyvale and buy the…