Want to feel better about the future of journalism? Then read this IM Interview Leonard Witt conducts with Jesse Villanueva, the 20-year-old advertising director of San Diego State University’s The Daily Aztec. He won the first First National Sustainable Journalism Concept-2-Reality Competition sponsored by the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University. Catherine Shen, [...]
By Leonard Witt
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Also posted in Concept2Reality, Future of Journalism
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Tagged advertising, Center for Sustainable Journalism, Concept-2-Reality, Future of Journalism, Internet, iPad, iPhone, journalism business models, journalism education, Leonard Witt, Leonard Witt interview, mobile, newspapers, online, reinventing journalism, smart phone, sustainable journalism
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March 16, 2010 – 12:02 am
Yesterday Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released its annual “State of the News Media 2010” report. Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, provided information for the report’s section on Online Economics and Consumer Attitudes. So what does Rainie think about journalism’s future? He is optimistic. In the [...]
Will public funding, the public radio model be the savior for high quality, ethically sound journalism? Laura Walker, President and Chief Executive Officer of WNYC Public Radio, says, “I don’t think it is an easy model, I think it’s actually harder, and I think it gets underestimated.” To learn more, watch the Leonard Witt video [...]
By Leonard Witt
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Tagged Center for Sustainable Journalism, foundations, Future of Journalism, journalism business models, Laura Walker, Leonard Witt, public funding, public radio, video interview, WNYC
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February 23, 2010 – 12:01 am
Penelope Abernathy, the Knight Chair in Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, says “Everyone likes to talk about how quality news is very expensive, but it pales in comparison to what the costs to sustain a two-century old legacy system of printing and distribution are,” adding, “The first is that [...]
February 17, 2010 – 12:01 am
There was a time when folks leisurely read their news over breakfast. Alas, Northwestern University researcher Pablo Boczkowski has found that now people are reading most of their news on the internet at work. Their new reading habits are such that, according to Boczkowski, it is unlikely that they will pay for the news. Boczkowski [...]
February 9, 2010 – 12:01 am
As part of Leonard Witt’s video series on the Future of Journalism he spoke with Robert Picard, a well respected media economist; when Witt asked him the big question about the Future of Journalism, Picard responded: I’m very optimistic about the future of news and journalism. I’m not as optimistic about large bureaucratized organizations that [...]
January 12, 2010 – 12:02 am
Yesterday, after using the Baltimore media ecosystem as a case study, the Pew Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) issued a rather gloomy report on the state of local news. A few weeks ago, I asked Tom Rosenstiel, director of PEJ, if he was an optimist or pessimist about the state of the journalism. [...]
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Tagged Center for Sustainable Journalism, Future of Journalism, Leonard Witt, local news, newspapers, PEJ, Pew, Project for Excellence in Journalism, reinvent journalism, Tom Rosenstiel, Video Interviews
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January 7, 2010 – 12:01 am
Geek Squad founder Robert Stephens says anyone contemplating a journalism start-up should think of getting a mobile presence first and then think of a computer application that plays off the app, not the other way around. Indeed, if he were starting the Geek Squad today, it would not be providing support for computers, it would [...]
By Leonard Witt
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Tagged Android, Center for Sustainable Journalism, Future of Journalism, Geek Squad, Leonard Witt, mobile, newspapers, Robert Stephens, smart phones, tablets
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