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Posts Tagged Business model
Goodbye, Cockaigne!
Posted by Stephan Russ-Mohl in Media Economics on August 12, 2010
“Fair Trade” in the news business: What journalists and publishers might learn from behavioral economics.
Rupert Murdoch’s London Times is the front-runner in attempting to introduce payments for its online content since early July. Others will follow, like Le Monde and Figaro, and Axel Springer AG in Germany announced similar plans. In America, the New York Times spent a year preparing its readers with reports about the newspaper branch, later acknowledging that it would reconstruct the very paywall it eliminated only a Read the rest of this entry »
The Journalism Firm?
Posted by Kate Nacy in Media Economics on July 18, 2010
A recommendation for journalists: follow the lawyers.
While journalists occasionally serve as the butt of a bad joke or two (ex: What do you get if you cross a sports reporter with a vegetable? A common tater), they’re victimized far less than other professionals, namely lawyers. Even your own sweet grandmother can pull off a “How many lawyers does it take to screw in a lightbulb” zinger. But don’t get too comfortable, warns Michael Rosenblum, video-journalism expert, because soon journalists might have to start taking notes from their Bluetooth-and-briefcase toting colleagues. Read the rest of this entry »
Time to Pay Up?
Posted by Kate Nacy in Media Economics on January 19, 2010
All things free must come to an end, right? So it is for the post-2007 free Internet access to nytimes.com content.
According to New York Magazine, “Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin charging for access to its Web site, according to people familiar with internal deliberations.” In the running for potential new payment structures are a metered pay system and a model in which specific portions of the site are free while others are available by subscription only.
Read more at New York Magazine.
Journalism Schools Thrive, while the Profession…
Posted by Kate Nacy in Journalism Training on November 29, 2009
Despite the delicate financial state of the news media, jouralism schools seem to be thriving.
In fact, the education sector is perhaps the only area of journalism maintaining a healthy business model. In an article published in The Chronicle Review, Nicholas Lemann, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, asks why journalism schools haven’t suffered the same fate as newspapers. According to Lemann, “Journalism schools ought to explore, and are already exploring, the possibility of becoming significant producers of original news reporting to make up for the loss of the reporting that economically devastated news organizations can no longer afford.”
Read more at The Chronicle.
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