March 11, 2010 – 11:20 am
For everyone following the story of the Cook County Prosecutor who subpoenaed records from student journalists investigating a murder case, here’s the latest…
The Chicago Sun Times reports a judge has accepted an amended bid for a new trial for a man who’s spent the last 30 years in prison and claims he’s innocent. But this comes at [...]
March 10, 2010 – 11:55 am
Even a well funded news startup has big challenges. The Bay Area News Project, slated to launch in a few months, has $5 million in seed money, donated office space, paid student interns from Berkeley, a deal with the New York Times, and a CEO making $400,000 a year. An optimistic business plan predicts the Project will make [...]
Atlantapost.com went public last week with online news for black professionals. According to a news release, the site features original and aggregated content on personal finance, business, media and politics. Moguldom Media has similar sites in New York, Washington and Chicago. Media Bistro details the demographics and the company’s other targeted ventures.
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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Also posted in Future of Journalism, Interviews
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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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Conde Nast is launching tablet versions of it’s top magazines, starting next month with GQ. Vanity Fair and Wired will follow in June, while The New Yorker and Glamour will launch next summer. The New York Times reports the publisher is testing different prices, ads, and other digital approaches over the next six months, to learn [...]
February 26, 2010 – 2:27 pm
TV Newser looks at the pros and cons of digital one-man bands – reporters who shoot and edit video in addition to reporting and writing stories. Charles Bierbauer at the University of South Carolina, Gwen Ifill at PBS, Lou Ureneck at Boston University and Andy Mendelson at Temple all weigh the cost savings against the [...]
February 24, 2010 – 10:35 am
Spot.Us is a crowd-funded website that helps freelance journalists pitch a story idea, and hopefully raise money from people who see it. The site has now added social networking connections, a progress blog for each story, and a widget for third-party websites. Other enhancements allow a citizen journalist to volunteer their help with a specific story. Readwriteweb has [...]
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 22, 2010 – 10:37 am
More than 500 full-time journalists are creating content for AOL. But they don’t decide what to write in the traditional way. Veteran reporters and editors are getting an eye-opening experience in the future of news, AOL-style. Pages of Web traffic data are posted on the newsroom walls to let reporters and editors know how well [...]
