The newsonomics of the next New York Times CEO
Talk about a plum job: chief executive officer of The New York Times Company. The Times is one of the most respected brands on the planet. It is a pinnacle of the news trade. It generated revenues of $2.32 billion in 2011, according to the latest quarterly numbers released this morning. It sits square in...
The newsonomics of global media imperative
Let's elevate, for a moment. Let's take a NASA view of the media landscape, enjoying the clear, whole-earth picture of our struggling news planet. The wide view would tell us that, although the U.S. often believes itself to be the straw that stirs the global drink, we make up but 5 percent of the world's...
Tom Stites: Might the new web journalism model be neither for-profit nor nonprofit?
Maybe we've been looking for models in all the wrong places. To find the elusive secret to making web journalism sustainable in community after community, maybe we need to take a peek behind the curtain into the secret sector of the economy.For years now, people have been trying to devise business models for online community...
For nonprofits, government money is appealing, but might not help the bottom line
Last year, I wrote about an interesting study with implications for the new generation of nonprofit news organizations — and for those who'd like to see governments more involved in funding journalism. Analyzing years of data from nonprofits, the study found that nonprofits who received government grants didn't end up reaping the full benefit of...
USA Today toys with a side business: selling commercial access to its data
One year ago, USA Today opened up its massive database of articles, reviews, census figures, and sports salaries to the public. The newspaper provided open and well-documented APIs to software developers, but access was limited to personal and noncommercial use. Last week the newspaper quietly changed that, offering commercial licensing of its data on a...
Mediatwits #20: Newspaper Special: Boston Globe Pay Wall; Guardian U.S.; Philly Tablet
The Mediatwits podcast is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three semester Master of Arts in Journalism; a unique one semester Advanced Certificate in Entrepreneurial Journalism...
News.me, the iPad Twitter aggregator, relaunches as a free app and spins off from Bit.ly
News.me is going free. The personalization-driven, filter-focused iPad app, initially prototyped at The New York Times and incubated within the Betaworks company Bit.ly, is announcing today that its iPad app — previously $0.99 a week or $34.99 a year — will be free to all. It's also going independent — sort of. News.Me is announcing...
The newsonomics of loss
The Bay Area News Group's announcement Tuesday caused a few ripples, and some head-scratching: "About 120 lose jobs in Bay Area News Group re-branding, streamlining." Hadn't we read that story before? Didn't MediaNews already reorganize its Bay Area papers? Hadn't it cut lots of jobs? Didn't it change its circulation reporting methodology to get one...
