Posts tagged "journalism online"
"Beyond J-School 2011" 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; and the CUNY...
For news sites, counting unique visitors, increasingly, is like counting air. Instead of focusing on uniques, let's look at the newsonomics of ARPU, or the average revenue per unique visitor. It's a great benchmarking metric, long used by telcos and in the cable TV industry, and one being increasingly used — though not publicly —...
Steve Brill and Gordon Crovitz have sold Journalism Online, the newspaper paywall company they founded in 2009, to Chicago-based printing company RR Donnelley. Terms haven't been disclosed. Journalism Online is supposed to help print publishers operate online subscription services, and to date it has publicly launched with a handful of smaller publishers. News Corp., which...
Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news. This week: new paid-content systems from Apple and Google; the complex relationship between social media and activism; the financial value of a HuffPost blog post; eight big trends for the future of journalism; and the arresting possibility of "an Internet...
We could call this week a paid content free-for-all, but that's self-contradictory. So let's call it a pay-for-all, a fray of still-developing schemes that are certain to keep morphing as both competition and publishers' heads spin ever more quickly. It's a head-banging adventure to figure out what's unfolded just this week. Apple offered a proclamation...
Back in 2009, we broke word that Google was working on an e-payment solution for publishers that would be based on its Google Checkout platform, aimed at meeting its "vision of a premium content ecosystem." Google took a big step toward fulfilling the rest of that vision (#1, #2, and #3) today with the announcement...
It's a new epidemic of digital-pricing strategery, to borrow a fading term, now breaking out within the newspaper executive suites of the western world. Rupert will soon be charging 99 cents a week for The Daily, and dozens of dailies are laying out digital payment plans to be put into effect this year. Some are...
If 2009 was a period of emotional as well as economic depression for those in the industry, 2010 was one of simmering hope, which the glimmer of tablet emergence stoked. Now, in 2011, we've got a convergence of factors beginning to create a new sense of where traditional news publishing may go. They may, collectively,...
Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week's top stories about the future of news. This week: The Comcast-NBC merger comes with reservations; new ideas for journalism school to engage with the field; Press+ pushes paywall numbers; iPad skepticism grows; and the essential reading of the week.
In the digital business, the old aphorism — "If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist" — is rapidly moving from article of faith to fundamental operating principle. Measurement systems are just getting better and better. Yes, there are still quite a few naysayers in the digital news business, those who believe that editorial discretion...
This year, we're running
lots of predictions of what 2011 will bring for journalism. But our friend Martin Langeveld has been sharing his predictions for the new-media world for a
couple of
years now.
In the spirit of accountability, we think it's important to check back and see how those predictions...
We've seen lots of debate, quasi-information, and mixed signals out of Apple about how digital subscriptions will work, including who will keep which revenue and who will partake of user data, the new digital gold. Apple execs talk regularly to publishers, under threat of severe NDA. Those discussions and the back and forth of dealing...
