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 tagged advertising, Center for Sustainable Journalism, Concept-2-Reality, Future of Journalism, Internet, iPhone, journalism business models, journalism education, Leonard Witt, Leonard Witt interview, mobile, newspapers, online, reinventing journalism, smart phone, sustainable journalism
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April 29, 2010 – 10:39 am
The New York Times has an informative article and a video on how individuals can make small transactions via smart phones, including bumping two phones together or swiping a credit card via a little attachment. It’s great for spontaneous purchases, which I think will be perfect for small journalism start-ups that depend on small donations [...]
By Leonard Witt
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Posted in Future of Journalism, Uncategorized
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Also tagged credit cards, crowdfunding, donations, iPhone, journalism business models, Leonard Witt, mobile, reinvent journalism, smart phones, social networking, subscriptions, sustainable journalism
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Anyone who’s worked in a TV newsroom knows it takes reams of paper to produce a newscast. Every script must be printed 5-6 times so everyone gets a copy…the anchors, the director, producer, audio tech, etc. Now a TV station in market 145 has figured out how to save thousands of dollars by harnessing the [...]
Apple’s iPad, released last Saturday, may face some stiff competition from the HP Slate. An unofficial spec sheet leaked to tech media touts the Slate’s advantages. Here’s a partial list from Yahoo.com Runs on Windows 7 Two cameras USB 2.0 port SD card reader 3G networking HDMI-out video capabilities One thing the Slate doesn’t have [...]
March 24, 2010 – 12:56 pm
Just after the new year, I posted a video of me interviewing Robert Stephens, founder of the Geek Squad, and he said if he were to start a business today it would center on mobile devices and e-tablets. Wired magazine concurs with its cover article: How the Tablet Will Change the World. Now NPR and [...]
By Leonard Witt
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Posted in Future of Journalism, Uncategorized, conferences
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Also tagged app development, Appcelerator, apps, Center for Sustainable Journalism, conference, e-tablets, Future of Journalism, hands-on training, Jeff Haynie, media, mobile, newspapers, open source, reinvent journalism
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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 17, 2010 – 6:45 pm
Gawker reports on the dispute that could define the digital future of the New York Times. Internal factions are fighting over who will control the iPad app under the deal with Apple. The print circulation people (“Paper First!”) consider the iPad just another way to distribute the newspaper. They want to protect the print edition by [...]
February 8, 2010 – 6:34 pm
Magazine sales took a nosedive at the newsstand…down 9% overall in the 2nd half of last year. Newsweek, Time and W lost 35-40%. Silicon Alley’s Business Insider says publishers are looking at the iPad and other tablets to get them into the big online newsstands so they can recover these losses. The story comes with a nifty [...]
