News Innovation from CUNY

Over the last few months we have presented our New Business Models For News at a number of workshops and meetings. And we’ve received a lot of valuable feedback that has helped us further refine our models. Although these genericized models are supported by extensive, well-documented research, they are but one possible view of...
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Recently, at CUNY, we held a roundtable for ad sales people from hyperlocal blogs to big newspapers to hear what they are hearing from local merchants. We’re wrapping up our research for the New Business Models for News Project — indeed, it was Alberto Ibargüen, head of the Knight Foundation that funded this work,...
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On Friday, we at CUNY had the honor of playing host to a conference (call) for more than two dozen educators around the world — New York to Arizona to Berkeley to Guadalajara to London to Oslo — who are teaching or starting to teach entrepreneurial journalism. Here’s the wiki where we will continue...
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Representatives from a number of companies gave brief presentations (followed by Q & A) on how hyperlocal sites can benefit from their services. Outside.in (Mark Josephson)______________ GameChanger (Ted Sullivan)______________ Buzzr.com (Ed S...
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Representatives from a number of companies gave brief presentations (followed by Q & A) on how hyperlocal sites can benefit from their services. PaperG (Victor Wong)______________ Spot.us (David Cohn)______________ SeeClickFix (Ben Berkowitz)______________ GrowthSpur (Mark Potts)
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At the conclusion of the day-long event, conference participants set the agenda for the continuing conversation:
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Jeff Jarvis moderates this “reverse panel,” featuring questions from the conference participants to a group of media company executives.
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Representatives from Google, Adify, PaperG and Clickable discuss the basics of ad serving.
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Jim Schachter (Editor, Digital Initiatives for The New York Times) leads a panel discussion exploring how local sites can establish themselves as credible news organizations in their communities.
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Local sites need to provide more than words on a screen. Michael Rosenblum (RosenblumTV.com)
 and Sandeep Junnarkar (CUNY Graduate School of Journalism) talk about how to move beyond text.
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