New business models for news

Here’s a first draft - sure to change - of a presentation I plan to give to open and set the table for the New Business Models for News Summit at CUNY. I won’t go through it lline-by-line that morning; I added more detail since I’m posting it here for your comment, correction, questions, arguments.

New Business Models for News
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I should add that the conference is now oversubscribed for the space. Sorry.

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18 Responses to “New business models for news”

  1. Shafqat Says:

    Looks great. Will there be a video (live/stored) of the talk? Atleast an audio recording?

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  3. Readings of the day — Christoph Schmitz Says:

    [...] This lead me again to Jeff Jarvises blog and a post containing a draft of a presentation containing new business models for newspapers which I though was great. Further down the line I stumbled upon a post by Digi Dave saying: If you [...]

  4. Beth Lawton, NAA Says:

    You must be happy about this trend: The New York Times reported this morning that news organizations are actually starting to embrace linking to other online publications (”Mainstream News Outlets Start Linking to Other Sites“).

  5. Bob Wyman Says:

    Jeff, you may be too conservative! You say: “Do what you do best, link to the rest” and you present the “distributed” case, yet when you list “Newsroom efficiencies” you’ve staffed an organization that, like today’s newsrooms, tries to do everything.

    My guess is that the care, feeding, selection, editing, and career path for sports reporters is distinctly different from that required for entertainment or business reporters. Thus, I would expect that in a really distributed newsroom, the sports reporters would probably work for a sports news network that was, in many ways, distinct from the entertainment, local news, culture, or business news networks. I imagine that sports reporters and business journalists would start working in the boondocks and then, as they develop their skills, they would migrate to cover stories with broader scope — potentially after having moved within their organizations to different towns.

    It makes sense that a “newsroom’ might provide common local facilities for journalists covering a variety of topics, but it doesn’t necessarily make sense to have them all on the same budget — or even working for the same corporation. One extreme model would have the “newsroom” budgeted simply as an “office hotel” that leased space to local journalists and focused primarily on facilities support and “curating” of a local view of news. In such a newsroom, the only journalists who actually work for the newsroom itself would be those that covered hyper-local general news.

    bob wyman

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  10. Ted Murphy Says:

    I like your focus on local news. I think that is where the biggest value add is created.

    I think your WWGD idea is misguided. Keyword search advertising has nothing to do with online news publication, in my opinion. Apples and oranges — keyword search is closely connected to an ecommerce transaction, while online news is not.

    My suggestion: do a bit more with the only other area of online advertising (other than keyword search) that works: classified advertising pageviews. A presentation filed by Yahoo! with the SEC earlier this year showed an expected CPM for search page views of $40 and an expected CPM for classified page views of $50. Classified page views actually pay better than search page views, according to Yahoo!

    Here is a link to that presentation from Yahoo!:

    http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1011006/000095013408004973/f38938exv99w2.htm

    Your focus on local news ties in nicely with classified advertising. There could be an opportunity there for your industry.

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  16. Baby Says:

    I agree with Chris (a rare thing!)

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