NewBizNews Conference Videos: Business Models and Q & A
At the New Business Models for (Local) News Conference on November 11, Jennifer McFadden (business analyst for the Knight Foundation-funded CUNY Project) and Jeff Mignon and Nancy Wang of Mignon Media present business models for hyperlocal sites and a new metro news organization.CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Professor Jeff Jarvis, business analyst Jennifer McFadden, and...
NewBizNews Conference Videos: A New Ecosystem of News
Videos from the New Business Models for (Local) News Conference and HyperCamp will be posted over the next week. Here, Jeff Jarvis presents an overview of a new ecosystem of news.
Next Steps: What We Heard, What We Need
At the end of our New Business Models for (Local) News Conference last week we asked a question we’ve been asking since our first go-round three years ago: What’s next? What do we, as practitioners of journalism, need to do to help sustain journalism in this new age?
It seems there is still a simple two-word...
Livestream: NewBiz Conference
Our third annual summit on the future of news is getting started. Today it’s all about local. We’ll be tweeting all day, too. Hit us up with questions and comments, the hashtag is #newbiz. Conference details and schedule are here. And, here’s the livestream for your viewing pleasure:
NewBizNews HyperCamp Schedule
We’re looking forward to the New Business Models for (Local) News HyperCamp, scheduled for Wednesday, November 11th.
The conference schedule is now available here and as a google doc. The day-long event will be held at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism — 219 West 40th Street, 3rd Floor, NYC. Coffee and registration begin at 9:00...
The Survey Results
The foundation of the business models we built this summer was data culled from an online survey we conducted of web entrepreneurs. We asked online startups from across the country to give us a confidential glimpse at the nuts and bolts of their businesses.
We sent invitations to hundreds of online news organizations, from...
New Organizations, New Relationships
We’ve heard a lot about our forecasts for advertising revenues in the New News Organization this week (mostly asserting that our cpm and penetration assumptions are too optimistic). But, it seems our other goal–to envision a sustainable business built on a diversity of revenues–has been largely overlooked.
In fact, in year three of our NNO model,...
Community Training in the Ecosystem
One function that runs throughout the entire ecosystem is the role of community training — both in editorial coverage and ad sales.
The New News Organization plays an important role here as an outlet for experienced, professional journalists to train local bloggers and citizen journalists how to cover their communities with more depth, detail and accuracy....
Thank You and Keep ‘em Coming
We received a lot of useful feedback since the first part of the FOCAS conference yesterday and look forward to reading more as we continue to breakdown our individual models.
This project is all about interactivity and we wouldn’t have broken past the theoretical phase without your input. That goes for our 113 survey participants and...
