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Business models for news online - presentation
The following is a presentation I made to journalists in Kiev about new media business models for news. Most of the detail you can find in part 5 of the Model for a 21st Century Newsroom. You can also find links to the statistics about advertising here and here; and more links about business models …
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What wont happen in 2009 - and what might
This months Carnival of Journalism looks forward to new media developments in the coming year. Here are my no doubt misguided and naive predictions: 2009 will not be the year of the mobile web Every year we make end of year predictions that the coming year will finally see the mobile web hit the mai …
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What news employers want and what they get - research on the journalism skills gap
I recorded this at the Society of Editors conference in November, so forgive my tardiness. This is Donald Martin, a representative of UK training organisation NCTJ talking about the results of a survey they and partners PTC, BJTC and Skillset conducted into employer and university perceptions of ski …
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Twitter/mobile bookmarking with Tagthis (Something for the Weekend #13)
Its been a while since I did a Something for the Weekend tool review, but Twitter bookmarking service TagThis is such a great tool it needed covering. TagThis allows you to bookmark any URL you see on Twitter to your own account on Delicious or Magnolia. This is particularly useful if, like me, you …
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Who trusts blogs? Its the wrong question
Yet another survey came out this month providing comfort to those who still refuse to believe that new media forms like blogs represent a genuine threat to their businesses. Only 18% of people questioned trusted personal blogs, while 39% trusted radio or magazines and 46% print newspapers. I get thi …
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War, assassination, and Strictly Come Dancing: What news did you first hear on Twitter?
This is just a bit of curious fun. I can think of a few stories I heard first on Twitter. They are: The assassination of Benazir Bhutto (via @martinstabe) The Chinese earthquake (via @scobleizer) The deaths of Bo Diddley and Ted Rogers The resignation of Roy Keane as manager of Sunderland Bank of E …
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Interview: Shaun Milne, ecoforyou magazine
Shaun Milne, founding Director of digital publishing company Planet Ink, shares his decisions and ambitions for new online-only magazine ecoforyou. Why did you go for a turn-page magazine format? There were a number of good reasons, not least it is a fairly straightforward skill to learn. We purcha …
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I have a theory about why people stop blogging
and it is this: they do not become part of an online community. That may be because they dont link, or dont comment, or theres simply no one else out there. My 5 Stages of a Bloggers Life hinted at this: there is a moment at which the momentum of starting a blog fades, and a new momentum - the regul …
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What will happen to news publishers? A guess based on whats happening right now
By Wilbert Baan The financial crisis speeds up the newspapershift. Media diverges. Newspapers become television, television becomes a press agency. And everything becomes the web. Probably not a single news websites makes enough revenue to employ the same amount of journalists traditional media like …
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Is your news organisation making new money?
Its a simple question. Following on from my post on Bild last week, how is your news organisation exploring new sources of revenue? Are they hosting events? Selling photos or merchandise? Selling online services? What are they doing and what would you like to see them doing posts:Making money from j …
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BBC Future of Journalism conference day 2: more reflections (part 1)
The more interesting of the sessions at the BBCs Future of Journalism conference came on the second day. Head of BBC Newsroom Peter Horrocks spent most of his session fielding questions from employees concerned about how their particular corner of the corporation would be affected by multimedia news …
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Has Bild stumbled upon a clever business model for news?
German newspaper Bild is looking to expand without the expense of actually hiring new reporters, reports The Guardian: Bild has joined up with discount supermarket chain Lidl to sell a basic digital camera to a legion of citizen journalists, who the tabloid hopes will contribute images to its covera …
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Can journalists be a fan of a politician?
Thats the question being asked in Norway after a political journalist was criticized because she was a fan of the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, on Facebook. (via Bente) Related posts:Another wiki warning [Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Poynter reports on the amusing tale of the...Chat …
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Model for the 21st century newsroom pt.6: new journalists for new information flows
new journalists for new information Information is changing. The news industry was born in a time of information scarcity - and any understanding of the laws of supply and demand will tell you that that made information valuable. But the past 30 years have seen that the erosion of that scarcity. Not …
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N97 gets touch screen - but here are 10 reasons the iPhone already sucks compared with the N95
Nokia have unveiled the N97 and Robert Scoble makes a compelling case for its superiority over the iPhone. Curiously, many of his points mirror ones I had prepared in a blog post comparing the iPhone to the N95, giving me the perfect excuse to finally publish it. The iPhone is overrated. Ive said it …
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3 wishes for social media in 2009
This was published as a guest post on Shane Richmonds Daily Telegraph Technology blog: Media organisations are still barely getting their heads around social media. They look at a conversation and see vox pops they look at a community and see a market. They ask for Your pictures and then complain wh …
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Blogging journalists survey - the podcasts
Ive produced a series of 5 podcasts talking about the results of my survey into blogging journalists. You can hear the first 3 on the European Journalism Centres website (embedded in the outside column) - the final 2 are set to go live in the following weeks. Related posts:Blogging journalists: su …
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Journalist, search engine optimise thyself
Successful journalists not only know where to find the great stories - but how to make great stories find them. They know lots of people, and know the right people; they hang out in the right places, and they make themselves available. On the internet youd call it search engine optimisation (SEO), b …
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Is networked journalism more passive?
Last week I spoke at the BBC College of Journalisms Future of Journalism conference about the future newsroom, and the News Diamond specifically. Chair Louise Minchin asked the following question: did these new production processes mean journalists would become more passive? It is a great question. …
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BBC Future of Journalism day 1: some reflections
I was privileged to be asked to speak at the BBCs Future of Journalism conference last week. A largely internal event organised by the BBC College of Journalism, the event had little outside publicity and consequently very few people from outside the corporation attending. This was a shame, as not o …
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