About a year ago, I and many others suggested making an iTunes for newspapers but we see now that that might not be such a great idea considering the music industry and a million other blog posts about paying for stories. iTunes also would prohibit the type of content possible and revenue potential considering Apple would ...
So let's get this straight: Only teens don't like frustrating, hard to use websites, only teens don't like irrelevant, useless information, only teens don't like liars and only teens want to use information they find for more than personal knowledge? I don't understand how the website suggestions are any different than how anyone at any age ...
Journalists write stories. Most stories are intended to convey information. The strategic thinking that should be the next step — who needs this information, how might they act on it, how will they find it, how will they share it, how is it useful to them? — gets little attention in most newsrooms. This piece ...
Absolutely right. The argument that people will go elsewhere doesn't jive in one-newspaper towns such as Reno or even San Francisco. If the Reno Gazette-Journal or San Francisco Chronicle started charging for content readers would have absolutely nowhere else to go for local information involving courts, schools, people and business. The New York Times certainly ...
This is my first post to this blog, so allow me to preface it with a brief introduction. My name is Jay Balagna, I'm a 19-year-old freshman studying journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. I'm also the Assisstant News Editor for The Nevada Sagebrush. I'm originall from Denver, Colo. but I grew up in ...
So instead, news needs to find a way to create something that doesn't only help the journalist, but helps thousands of other unpaid creative people. uNews must be for more than news. It must be for all creative endeavours. It must be for InnoCentive.com, it must be for people who want to make money off of ...
As most of you know there’s an interesting debate about using an iNews/iTunes model of journalism to in fact save journalism. A lot of the main ideaists are talking about it as a business model while Shirky is the leader in why it’s a bad idea. I posit that iNews (or uNews as I’m calling ...
David Carr of The New York Times is either an asshole or genius. He discusses the idea of making an iTunes for distributing news and information (click here for Michael Hogan's take). Wow, it's about time. [...] ...