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11.29.09Just home much air time does Twitter actually deserve?I've been watching the Brian Solis - Robert Scoble discussions here. Twitter continues to generate a huge amount of conversation, which is interesting considering: Facebook has 250 million active users to Twitter's 19 million (eMarketer research via Mashable) A large number of users quite within the first month (Nielsen) Twitter has no revenue stream So, is Twitter the new attention dashboard? I have my doubts. I think that's a very limited view of the conversations that are occurring online. Will the real-time Web be a major influence on communication in the future? Absolutely. The focus on the newness of things, the tool and its features and ...
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10.23.09Readers should fund online media and that includes journalism and blogsThe business model that underpins print media is under pressure as a result of the competition that is presented by free online media in the form of news sites and blogs. Publishers are grappling with a range of questions: Will digital advertising revenue alone support quality journalism? Will readers pay for quality content? Will micro-payments scheme work on a pay as you go basis? What will happen if I start charging for content but no-one else follows suit? Can we maintain objectivity within an advertising-only funded revenue model? The Internet has caused massive fragmentation of the media landscape, bloggers and news sites have sprung up that ...
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06.07.09Options Still on the Table to Support the Future of Quality JournalismSimon Sharwood, a freelance journalist in Australia, recently blogged two out of his three ideas for new business models in print journalism. Both ideas are based on the concept of industry funding. In the first, funding would come from industry associations and industry groups. In the second, the PR industry funds print journalism via a licensing system, which grants the license holder access to those journalists - similar to the registration of lobbyists. Both concepts seem to create dependencies that would undermine journalistic independence and integrity, although the risk of this occurring in the second model could be minimised: "...to be a ...
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04.02.09Internet Ends Monopoly on Journalism and News Content Production Says Alan Kohler[caption id="attachment_499" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Alan Kohler, Business Spectator"][/caption] Alan Kohler argued that the Internet has put an end to the cartel which existed between a small number of publishers in the era of print media as it eradicated the high barriers to entry such as printing presses and licenses (in the case of broadcasting). Print is a highly ineffecient means of conveying news, he said, adding that the Government would be mad to support 'public trust journalism' via print publications. He viewed the recent increase in subsidies for print media legislated by Sarkozy as the latest example of 'loopy French economics'. Kohler - ...
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04.02.09Media Industry Luminary Predicts Closure of Two Major Australian Metro Broadsheet Newspapers[caption id="attachment_496" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Crikey's Eric Beecher"][/caption] Eric Beecher (Publisher of Crikey) painted a dark future for the print versions of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspaper during a panel discussion for ABC Radio's Saturday Extra program earlier today. The discussion 'Quality Journalism: How to Pay for it? Does it Matter?' focused on the future of print journalism in Australia, new business models and the concept of public trust journalism. Pointing to the fact that few cities internationally are able to sustain two daily newspapers (many are struggling to sustain one), Beecher made the point that News Corporation with The ...
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