A new media model worth watching – The Conversation - Digital Journalism - English - DW.DE. The Conversation is a popular Australian online news site that uses academics to cover breaking news and analyze current debates. The idea behind the model is to team up university researchers, who know a lot about many things but can’t necessarily write for a mainstream audience, with editors, who can. The combination of “academic rigour with journalistic flair” (the site’s slogan) has proved a roaring success and The Conversation now attracts nearly 20 million reads a month – although there have been some questions about potential academic bias. Largely funded by partner universities, the articles are free to read, there are no limits to the number of articles people can read and there is no advertising.
In an interesting twist, articles are also free to republish under a Creative Commons license. OnMedia spoke with The Conversation’s founder, Andrew Jaspan. OnMedia: Why did you think there was a need for The Conversation? I wanted to answer that question for myself. People Powered Front Pages Rule. What if front pages were selected by newspapers’ readers instead of their editors? At NewsWhip, we’re always interested in the news stories people are choosing to share – and how those stories differ from the normal news stories editors put on the front pages of big newspapers. So we ran a little experiment. On Wednesday morning, we gathered the front pages of leading newspapers in several countries. Then we used Spike to check the most shared stories from each one. A little work at our end, and we used those most shared stories to make new “people powered” front pages for each newspaper – giving the most shared story the most prominence, the second most shared the second most prominence, etc.
We replaced headlines and pictures, though did not get into replacing story text and bylines. For each paper we have the original front page on the left, and the “people powered” one on the right. The Wall Street Journal The Washington Post The New York Times Most shared NY Times story? USA Today Metro. News Ltd to combine divisions in cost-cutting sweep | News Corp. News Corp moves set off tremors News Corp lobs a takeover bid for Consolidated Media Holdings, BusinessDay's Malcolm Maiden reports. P 20, 2012 Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd will slash its operations along Australia's east coast in a move that is expected to lead to major job cuts. The revamp, announced to staff this afternoon by News Ltd chief executive Kim Williams, will reduce the number of its business divisions in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria from 19 to 5. Although there will be retrenchments, many roles will be retired through natural attrition Mr Williams reaffirmed the company's commitment to its newspapers, which include The Daily Telegraph, the Herald Sun and The Australian, but declined to state how many jobs will be lost.
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