Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
One of the arguments I'm making in the book is that news organizations need to find a way to remain relevant in a world where every content company -- regardless of what kind of content -- can create a service that reaches directly to readers.
We've seen some of these ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
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I'm not finished reading either of these books; however, there's enough percolating around in my head that I wanted to make sure I got it down before the next set of ideas washed them away.
I'm a proponent of reading books at the same time because ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
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It's a lovely Saturday afternoon, the perfect type of day for browsing my RSS feeds.
That joy was short-lived, though, as I started reading Who Will Tell Us, an op-ed piece in the Columbia Journalism Review decrying the state of traditional journalism. Ironically, the very editorial itself is the ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
I've been talking business model a lot lately. More than I'd like to since I'm trying to focus my thinking on solutions to the newsroom and not solutions to the publisher's room.
Unfortunately, those two are long past being separated. So let's just do this a little more.
I constantly here from ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
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Jeff Jarvis has written a post about news organizations moving away from thinking of themselves as destinations (or I might say the gatekeepers of information) and towards a more "distributed strategy for news," which he lays out as this:
Widgets that enable people to embed your news (and links ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
We've been having a discussion about crime and reporting at The Modern Journalist NING social network, which got me thinking about the best ways to cover this in a modern newspaper.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, my hometown paper, has a cluster of information smashed on a map at the Cincy Navigator, an ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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One of the most interesting propositions for newspapers is the overhaul of the business section.
There are more opportunities for important -- and audience-capturing -- features in this section than any other simply because, other than sports, the section relies more on raw data and numbers.
Traditional business papers should, ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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One of the rather disturbing trends I have experienced in my talks with newspaper folks is there insistence on latching on to the latest trend.
It's easy to get caught up in the mix. After all, new technologies roll out every day and if you're not careful, you can ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Normally, I try to add something to the conversation whenever I read articles and speeches, but there are times when I think it's best left to the words of those delivering the message.
This is one of those cases.
John S. Carroll is the former editor of several papers and he delivered ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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I was speaking with Joe, a former Cincinnati Post writer working to launch a local news organization called CinDaily, about what a modern newspaper should look like.
Our discussions are good for him, I think, but I know they are good for me. They help me start to outline ...
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