Comments on: Re-imagining the Future of Journalism

By: JS

JS — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:27:46 +0000

This is awesome. Opptimism goes a long way and you have to take the good with the bad. I like the key points touched on above. Journalists definately have to interact with their audience and they definately have to have a passion. Anyone can write but it’s the passion that brings the writing to life and makes it interesting. I think that the future of journalism is hard to tell but this website is pretty helpful in answering questions about it.
http://www.ourblook.com/index.php?topic=future_of_journalism

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:44:38 +0000

It’s very interesting point of view about business model identification, Amy.
But it seems that social media and new innovations make the process of identification of proper business and monetization model more complicated. It means that there are a lot of nuances that every media should now consider to get own stake of pie. Recent trends may witness about desintegration of markets in relations to the economy of scale effect. The leaders of media industry moving to a periphery of our vision, and diversity of new tools and sources of information is creates the atmosphere of florid carnival behavior.
During carnivals consumers generally spend money just to be engaged in a process and do not expect to gain any profit. They seek gratification. Can gratification be the product that media provide or they still sell information?

By: Amy Rainey

Amy Rainey — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:30:44 +0000

Thanks, Brian. I wish I had been at that session too, though I learned a lot from the sessions I did attend. I’m looking forward to reading the notes and hopefully attending future events that pair up software and journalism minds.

For anyone interested in reading the wiki notes from Brian’s section, go here: http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-free-open

By: Brian Glanz

Brian Glanz — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:31:58 +0000

Amy, great summary of JTM. As you say, there was a lot going on at once and we couldn’t be everywhere, but I wish you’d been in our business model conversations. We discussed how freemium could apply to a news site. Getting down to business, we generated a list of features (software “features” not journalism “features” i.e. not stories, not content) for which readers and contributors might be willing to pay and discussed the pricing and audience that could make a journalism venture sustainable. I come from the software and tech startup sector; there need to be many more meetings of software and journalism minds, but this was a good one.

We weren’t recorded, but there are notes on the wiki under “How software made free and open sustainable: an open culture-based business model for journalism.” More complete notes plus a few other posts about business models are at http://opensciencefoundation.com/jtm/ BG