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This weekend I spent a day and a half participating online in NewsU’s Revenue Camp for Journalism Entrepreneurs, an intense session on some of the new ways journalists are making money on the Web. (The entire course will be available to view online in a few days; Twitter comments from the course are at #revcamp.) […]
Read More »This weekend I spent a day and a half participating online in NewsU’s Revenue Camp for Journalism Entrepreneurs, an intense session on some of the new ways journalists are making money on the Web. (The entire course will be available to view online in a few days; find Twitter comment at #revcamp.) One of the […]
Read More »Warren Buffett’s decision to buy 63 daily and weekly newspapers from Media General confirms the market value of organizations that build a strong community around local news. That value is precisely what digital news entrepreneurs like MinnPost, Texas Tribune and Voice of San Diego are counting on as they build their organizations. Buffett, CEO of the […]
Read More »A new study of nine entrepreneurial journalism ventures in France, Germany and Italy offers insight into the current industry crisis as well as hope for the future. University of Oxford and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism have just published an online book, “Survival is Success: Journalistic Online Startups in Western Europe,” by […]
Read More »The online investigative publication that recently reported French President Nicolas Sarkozy received 50 million euros in campaign support from Libya in 2007 is an anomaly: a profitable subscription-only service that accepts no advertising. Mediapart is showing that in the right circumstances, an investigative news organization can be a viable business. Investigative journalism in the […]
Read More »Back in the 1960s, before baseball had a designated hitter, I had a paper route. This was a job formerly given to 12-year-olds but now has been taken over by adults.It was a measure of the daily newspaper’s market dominance that a kid who wanted a paper route had to buy it from another kid. […]
Read More »Europe is a patchwork of dozens of different languages, and news media now see this as an opportunity. They are banding together to charge for internet access to local-language products. Dutch and Flemish publishers are the latest in Europe to consider erecting a shared paywall around content in their languages, Paid Content reports. The concept is […]
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