Newspaper Business Models – Related stories
Here are several links to related articles that will help you learn more about some of the current thinking about the future of newspapers:
Tell me what your newspaper reading habits are: click here . My students at UNT are exploring reader habits and business models. We want to hear from you.
The most current links added:
* Newspapers: Can things get any worse? Google proposes new model and exec suggests circulation cut, but gloom pervades annual confab.
* Presstime: “Don’t Stop the Presses!” Ten experts share their ideas for reinventing newspapers. (This is a magazine published by the Newspaper Association of America).
* An Afterlife for Newspapers: PBS’s MediaShift explores what former newspaper journalists are doing now, and what they believe the future business models are.
* Calculating Salaries: This is a tool that is very useful in finding the salaries of various job positions.
* Small Business Administration: Starting a business. This is a very thorough and useful guide to all aspects of starting – and running - business, including writing a business plan.
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The 2009 State of the News Media Report issued by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Some key findings:
* The growing public debate over how to finance the news industry may well be focusing on the wrong remedies while other ideas go largely unexplored.
* On the Web, news organizations are focusing somewhat less on bringing audiences in and more on pushing content out.
* Even if cable news does not keep the audience gains of 2008, its rise is accelerating another change—the elevation of the minute-by-minute judgment in political journalism.
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Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. Keynote Address – News Literacy: Setting a National Agenda, March 12, 2009, Stony Brook University, New York. The chairman of the New York Times Company explores paid content models, the future of newspapers and the importance of newspapers to the future of democracy.
Poynter Institute’s Transformation Tracker
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=155972
Tracking Newspaper Jobs Lost: 2007 to present
Steve Yelvington: “Town Circles”: “The Three Primary Roles Your Local Website Should Play”
Christian Science Monitor: Editor John Yemma discusses why they’re going to a weekly publication, and investing in the web.
Time Magazine: How to Save Your Newspaper, Walter Isaacson
Charlie Rose: Future of Newspapers with guests: Walter Isaacson, president, Aspen Institute, Robert Thomson, Wall Street Journal; Morton Zuckerman, publisher, US News & World Report and New York Daily News.
Anthony Moor, deputy managing editor/interactive, offers an on-going discussion on the future of newsrooms and newspapers.
Robert Niles of the Knight Digital Media Center has compiled a collection of essays that he calls, “Essential reading for journalists caught in the meltdown.”
Robert McIntyre of 24/7 Wall St. says that newspaper in 10 cities will shutdown or go to online only.
In his blog, “Etaoin Shrdlu“, Howard Weaver, former VP/News for McClatchy, talks about changing news media landscape.
Editor & Publisher: Fitz & Jen Blog
Newspapers and Their Quest for the Holy Grail
To Prepare for the Future, Skip the Present By Edward Roussel, Nieman Reports
Innovator’s Dilemma – A Primer
The Changing Newspaper Newsroom
Project of Excellence
New Yorker Magazine:
“Out of Print,” March 31st, by Eric Alterman: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/31/080331fa_fact_alterman
New York Times Magazine: “Can the Cell Phone Help End Global Poverty?”, By Sara Corbett
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13anthropology-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin
Adapt or Die: http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=4111
Newspaper Business Models: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2008/12/your-guide-to-alternative-business-models-for-newspapers353.html
