New Media Business Models

Welcome to New Media Business Models. We are trying to map the business infrastructre for media as it transitions into a digital business. It's one of the most fascinating transitions of all time because media is so very important to the quality of our society, government, and our lives. foremski Jul 30

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One basic characteristic of journalism is this: its content is not bought and paid for and directed by an advertiser.

The Shady Marketing Scheme That's Buying Off Your Favorite Bloggers

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20124834-93/has-content-become-advertising-for-advertising/

Has content become advertising for advertising? | Digital Media - CNET News

You Cheat. We Cut Prices | Monday Note

Tweet Surprise: To boost its circulation, Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal Europe engaged in massive channel stuffing. No kidding. It sounds like everyone discovers, all of a sudden, how medias (old and new) actually work. Granted, when it comes to cheating, News Corp is in a class all by itself.

http://www.mondaynote.com/2011/10/16/you-cheat-we-cut-prices/

Getting Local: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability - Knight Foundation

Navigating News Online | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)

The newsonomics of the next recession » Nieman Journalism Lab

Editor’s Note : Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. Sure, anyone in business, especially the news business, knows another recession is inevitable. Recessions have always been with us and were, until the massive digitally driven downturn in the industry’s fortunes, the prime way we separated good years from mediocre ones. The next recession, though, we thought might come in 2014 or later — after the news industry had somehow gotten its digital transition act together and found some stable going-forward business model. Now, it appears that hope may have been an illusion. Newspaper turnaround artists plan, and the gods of finance laugh.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/08/the-newsonomics-of-the-next-recession/

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Business Insider, over-aggregation, and the mad grab for traffic | Felix Salmon

By Ryan McCarthy The news that Business Insider raised approximately $7 million should be great news for those who follow the world of web media. Henry Blodget’s got a flat-out growth story on his hands: his staff of 60 now attracts 12 million visitors a month, according to their internal stats. But there’s reason to be concerned about what Blodget’s team has sacrificed along the way. It’s worth noting that venture-backed media companies can very much be in a race against time for growth. Investors want a return on their money and, given the economics of web news, that almost always requires exponential growth in uniques and pageviews.

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/09/22/business-insider-over-aggregation-and-the-mad-grab-for-traffic/

Berkeley j-school hires Spot.Us founder to research online business models | Poynter.

Romenesko+ Misc. | DigiDave

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/146429/berkeley-j-school-hires-spot-us-founder-to-research-online-business-models/

http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/21/should-ad-networks-pay-publishers-for-stolen-content-the-fair-syndication-consortium-thinks-so/

Should Ad Networks Pay Publishers For Stolen Content? The Fair Syndication Consortium Thinks So. | TechCrunch

As newspapers and other publishers watch their revenues diminish, one common refrain among them is that maybe they should somehow go after Google or Yahoo for aiding and abetting the destruction of their businesses and sometimes the wholesale theft of their content. We’ve seen how the Associated Press wants to handle this: by aggressively going after anyone who even borrows a headline. Today, a consortium of other publishers including Reuters, the Magazine Publishers of America, and Politico are taking a more measured approach, but one which will no doubt still be controversial. They are forming the Fair Syndication Consortium , which is the brainchild of Attributor, the startup which tracks the reuse of text and images across the Web for many of these same publishers.

Editor’s Note : Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. Roll-up. What seemed inevitable (“ The newsonomics of roll-up “) has now begun. Alden Global Capital , now an even bigger player on the U.S. news scene, did the behind-the-scenes work necessary to pull off a combo of Journal Register Company and MediaNews Group. I say combo in the non-legal sense, as we all try to make immediate sense of the governance changes in this not-quite-a-merger.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/09/the-newsonomics-of-comboco/

The newsonomics of ComboCo » Nieman Journalism Lab

As announced earlier this morning , we have formed a new company – Digital First Media Inc. It will manage both the Journal Register Company and Media News Group and its mission will be to accelerate the transformation of both these great firms to a modern, multi-platform media company focused on local news. And, let me tell you, it will be a powerhouse out of the gate with more than 880 products in 18 states serving more than 57 million Americans per month. More than 41 million of those customers are digital-only creating one of the largest online news networks in the country. We are supposed to be out of ideas, out of money and out of energy. To our competitors, I say keep thinking that.

Digital First: The Next Step « Digital First

http://jxpaton.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/digital-first-the-next-step/

It’s hard to imagine anything more perfect than Slate’s decision to lay off its respected media critic Jack Shafer . Not perfect in a good way — I count myself amongst Shafer’s legions of fans — but perfect in the way that Alanis Morissette not understanding the meaning of ‘Ironic’ is perfect, or the way that a safety inspector falling out of a tenth story window would be perfect. “I tolllldddd yyoooouuu sooooooo…” I mean, what better illustration could there be of online media’s woes than an ezine laying off its media critic because the economics of web content don’t support a writer of his stature and specialism?

Now Can We All Agree That The “High Quality Web Content” Experiment Has Failed? | TechCrunch

New data tools, perhaps best described as Web analytics on steroids and with psychic powers, are making their way into newsrooms and changing the way that editors decide what stories to promote, where, and when. It’s part of an emerging technology trend called “big data” — a process of gathering large, comprehensive, complex datasets and using advanced computer algorithms to visualize them, extract patterns, and use them to make decisions. These tools, which originated in the labs of the titans of technology and finance, are becoming more mature and affordable, and they’re spreading to other industries: health care, science, the military, e-commerce, and now news organizations. They’re showing up in the form of new analytics services that can replace an editor’s hunch with a scientific prediction of what story will perform best.