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Knight Foundation Announces First Round of 2012 News Challenge Media Innovation Contest | PND | Foundation Center
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has announced that in 2012, the Knight News Challenge, an international media innovation contest, will be offered three times with three different topics. The challenge is part of the foundation's $100 million-plus Media Innovation Initiative , which seeks new ways to meet community information needs in the digital age. The news challenge seeks to identify and support innovative ideas for using digital media to deliver news and information to geographically defined communities. The 2011 contest awarded a total of $4.7 million to support the development of sixteen ideas. In 2012, each of the three news challenge rounds will be eight to ten weeks long — shorter, more focused contests designed to better mirror the pace of innovation.
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"Absolutely essential" is how Tony Joseph , CEO and co-founder of Mindworks Global Media, described the need for editorial outsourcing. Joseph, who spoke today during the first session of the World Editors Forum, illustrated the necessity for outsourcing and described its ability to alter cost-structure. Joseph believes outsourcing can lower costs while still maintaining core-proposition.
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NEWSPAPER WEBSITES REACH NEARLY TWO-THIRDS OF U.S INTERNET USERS IN SEPTEMBER - Newspaper Association of America: Advancing Newspaper Media for the 21st Century
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For all my ranting and raving about the failings of newspapers, I’ve never understood why publishers, who are very smart people, have mostly refused to see and do what’s necessary to save their businesses. But now I have a theory. Once upon a time, a newspaper publisher was one of the most powerful people around. He/she could shape cities, make or break politicians (or even lowly film makers ), change laws, expose corruption, protect the little guys, antagonize the bad guys, sometimes help the bad guys and of course, make money.
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Howard Kurtz, the indefatigable media writer for the Washington Post, is leaving to become Washington bureau chief for Tina Brown's The Daily Beast. Not so long ago, Kurtz's move would have been inconceivable. He seemed like the classic Post lifer. Kurtz has spent nearly 30 years at the paper, and he enjoys a very high-profile perch, one that propelled him into hosting CNN's "Reliable Sources." For years prestigious news organizations like the Post and the New York Times really were destination newspapers.
Leaving Legacy Media Behind | American Journalism Review
Newspaper Industry And Online Business Models: Jeff Jarvis On Why Newspapers Are Doomed To Fail. Quickly
The Newspaper Association of America is meeting in San Diego this week and they’re preaching up at their own choir loft with angry , self-righteous fire and brimstone about their plight. Today, Google CEO Eric Schmidt will address them, but he’ll be polite because that’s the way he is and because there’ll be a few hundred aging but armed publishers with blunderbusses aimed at his heart. They need to hear a new message, a blunt message from the outside. Here’s the speech I think they should hear: You’ve had 20 years since the start of the web, 15 years since the creation of the commercial browser and craigslist , a decade since the birth of blogs and Google to understand the changes in the media economy and the new behaviors of the next generation of - as you call them , Mr. Murdoch - net natives.
Ten examples of how media sites try to make users pay for content | BetaTales
Media companies can only succeed in charging users for content if they provide unique value. Here are examples of how some sites try to achieve this. Any successful attempt to charge users would need to have a very strong offering in at least one of those five areas.Guess How Many People Pay To Read Local Newspapers With Paywalls?
Eyeballing the list of monthly subscription prices (online only), it seems the average monthly online-only price is about $10, or $120 a year. This suggests that the total online subscription revenue for all the local newspapers in the country is about $1.2 million. (Throw in another few million for papers Joseph might have missed and let's say the total number is $5-$10 million.) That's not going to save a lot of newspapers. Now, there's something else to consider here, which is protecting the value to the paper-based subscription and advertising business by not giving the whole thing away online free.
Last year, amid the greatest recession in the history of the financial system, the Financial Times turned a profit. How it did so in the wake of a downturn that has literally decimated the UK's 1m financial sector jobs – plus many more in continental Europe, the US and Asia, where the FT sells about 70% of its 390,000-strong circulation – is a question increasingly asked by an industry looking for answers. Rival newspaper publishers look at its mixture of online paywalls , increasing subscriptions and cover prices and hope to see a panacea for their current ills. There is even a suggestion that the FT has unlocked the secret of eternal profitability. A spokesperson says: "Given the amount of revenue we now generate from content there's no reason why the FT should ever make a loss again."
Is the Financial Times the perfect digital model? | Media | The Guardian
Is it really a media company or is it the Czech version of Starbucks? Either way, Nase Adresa (Our Address) is trying to turn the tables in journalism. Started last year, the hyperlocal newsoutlet now has four local newspapers (all working from company owned cafes) and a centrally based Futuroom . Fourty more will be opened this year and before the end of 2011 Nase Adresa is supposed to have 89 newscafes, covering all of the Czech Republic. The business model is far from traditional. PPF Media, the owner company, says it gets 60% of its profit from advertisement and subscriptions to the weekly print editions.
Caffeine Flavored Future for Hyperlocal Journalism - Bart Brouwers - Dead Trees Living - True/Slant
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Business Insider | TechCrunch | The New York Times TechCrunch has confirmed Business Insider’s report that Arianna Huffington’s role at AOL has been reduced. TechCrunch -- owned and operated by AOL -- published a story late Thursday night saying that Jay Kirsch now runs TechCrunch, Engadget, Moviefone, Stylist, AOL Video, AOL.com and TUAW. Kirsch became responsible for the Tech sites’ business operations in December 2011, when Heather Harde left her position at AOL as GM of TechCrunch, Engadget, Joystiq, and TUAW. The business responsibilities Kirsch gained then were Harde’s, not Huffington’s.Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats”
Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into the unknown. Marc Andreessen has the same advice for old media companies: “Burn the boats.” Yesterday, Andreessen was in New York City and we met up.It's quick, easy and you'll be able to read up to 8 articles per 30 days. Plus you can use these tools: News by Email Get the latest headlines and industry sector-specific briefings direct to your inbox. Over 40 daily updates to choose from, plus set keyword alerts for news as soon as it is published.
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