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Disney and ABC, no USA Today paywall

December 3, 2012

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By Ryan Chittum The investigative journalist Roddy Boyd has some excellent reporting on a multilevel marketing company (read: pyramid scheme) called ViSalus: ViSalus is a multilevel marketing company that promises ordinary folks a shot at financial success based solely on their skill at building a sales group that essentially draws on personal social circles: A […]

Is a city without a daily paper doomed—or fertile ground?

October 24, 2012

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by Wilborn Nobles III  What happens to a city’s journalism—the actual news coverage, not the pensions of the reporters—when its flagship newsroom sinks? If we’re talking about New Orleans, where the much-honored and much-loved Times-Picayune has ceded its daily presence, the answer appears to be: competition and experimentation. New Orleans isn’t the first city to […]

Will the Daily Bugle survive? By Stephen B. Shepard

September 5, 2012

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Excerpted from Deadlines and Disruption, by Stephen B. Shepard, published by McGraw-Hill, © 2012 With the traditional business model collapsing, several things become urgent if quality journalism is to survive. For the sake of simplicity, I’ll focus on newspapers because they still do most of the original reporting in America and because they are the […]

A computational journalism reading list

June 5, 2012

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Originally published by Jonathan Stray on jonathanstray.com, 31 January 2011. This article is republished with permission.   There is something extraordinarily rich in the intersection of computer science and journalism. It feels like there’s a nascent field in the making, tied to the rise of the internet. The last few years have seen calls for a new […]

The Data Journalism Handbook: The Next Newsroom Staple?

June 5, 2012

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Move over, the AP Stylebook. A new handbook is in town and there’s a good chance it will become a newsroom must-have. The Data Journalism Handbook launched this past weekend at the School of Data Journalism, based at the 2012 International Journalism Festival in Perugia. It is a one stop shop for reporters interested in […]

Google’s Richard Gingras: 8 questions that will help define the future of journalism

April 12, 2012

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These are extraordinary times. These are exciting times. There has been tremendous disruption, but let’s consider the huge positives that underly that disruption. There are no longer the same barriers to publishing: everyone has a printing press, and there are no gatekeepers. There are new ways for people to both consume and share news. There […]

The newsonomics of the digital cafeteria By Ken Doctor

December 28, 2011

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Here’s how newspapers sell what they do to would-be readers. You can get the whole paper, now sometimes including digital access. We’ll sell you Sunday only, or the weekend, or 7-day, but you have to take our whole paper. That’s what we sell; that’s our one-size-fits-all product. It fit your grandparents and your parents, so […]

Canada: Copyright on Supreme Court’s agenda this week

December 8, 2011

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For most of the past hundred years, the Supreme Court of Canada heard the occasional copyright case with significant cases popping up once every 10 or 20 years. That started to change in 2001 with a big case reaching Canada’s top court every year or two. While that seemed like a busy schedule, it is […]

Journal Register CEO John Paton: Too Early To Say Whether MediaNews Paywalls Stay Up

December 6, 2011

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Journal Register CEO John Paton has been a vocal opponent of using paywalls to increase digital revenue for newspapers, as have his advisory board members Jeff Jarvis, Emily Bell and Jay Rosen. But what happens now that he is also the CEO of MediaNews Group, which already has more than two dozen paywall experiments running, […]

MediaNews Group’s ‘Digital-First’ Mondays Bring Some Paywalls Down

December 6, 2011

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Hachette, Bloomberg Businessweek Partner On Steve Jobs E-Single

November 28, 2011

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Big-six publisher Hachette Book Group is partnering with Bloomberg Businessweek on e-singles that will “illuminate key moments in the world of business,” drawing on content from the magazine. First up is Steve Jobs: 1955-2011. The Steve Jobs e-book is $3.99 and available now at a variety of etailers, including Kindle, Nook and Apple’s iBookstore. Its […]

E-Singles: New strategy for content monetization

November 14, 2011

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Have a publication? Want to make money? Well, follow the Hearst logic! Hearst Publications are back in the news again. Their latest strategy is the mini cookbook for Good Housekeeping! The logic is very simple: just like an artist releases a “single” to promote an album, or to just promote himself, Hearst released the “E-Singles” […]

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