In about a week, I will be taking part in an ad-hoc, open discussion with interested folks about solutions and tasks that can help media companies transform.
On Saturday, Jan. 24, the first BarCamp NewsInnovation (#newsinnovation) will be held at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute on the campus of the University of Missouri.
One big reason [...]
The chatter about BarCamp NewsInnovation is picking up and with it I get asked more and more the question of how I feel it can benefit the media industry.
There are ongoing meetings designed to help media companies become better at the new information ecosystem. People are talking about new business models. And CEOs are meeting [...]
A friend recently used the example of how Napster blew up the music industry by changing the paradigm, saying the media industry needs to find its own Napster. Sean Blanda described a similar example as the “kite moment.”
However you look at the state of the industry and what steps will lead to the transformation of [...]
I keep hearing from many people that the more they learn about BarCamp NewsInnovation the more excited they get. That’s a good thing, and I’m psyched too. But there is still much to do and much to get figured out, so here I am, again, asking for your feedback and help.
First, here is the latest: [...]
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Just before Christmas, I was contacted by University of Missouri convergence journalism student Kelsey Proud about holding a regional BarCamp NewsInnovation at the Donald W. Reynold Journalism Institute in Columbia, Missouri.
In the process of trying to work out a date (which should be known soon), I was contact by Jane [...]
The response has been overwhelming that I wanted to put out a quick note of some changes and additions to locations for the regional BarCamp NewsInnovation summits.
Here is the breakdown as it currently stands in terms of locations and people who potentially are willing to take the organizational lead and host these events in January.
I [...]
Six months? Are you kidding me! The 50 or so CEO’s who attended last week’s emergency summit hosted by the American Press Institute agreed to reconvene in six months to “explore . . .” oh, blah, blah, blah. Who cares. If you can wait that long, fine, stop reading now. If not I have an [...]
By now we all know that on Thursday 50 CEO-level executives met in a room in Reston, Va., to figure out ways to respond to the crisis within the media industry by talking about new business models. It was billed as a closed-door, invitation only meeting. You can read thoughts on that which I tend [...]
Let me state from the outset that I don’t know if anyone in our industry has completely figured out how to make money with a digital-only community information site, least of all me. But here are some of my thoughts, and I would love to begin a discussion that actually leads to some solid [...]
There has been some pub recently about an experiment by Howard Owens and Ryan Sholin working with Gatehouse Media to launch a website in a place, Batavia, NY, where Gatehouse doesn’t publish a newspaper. You can read more about it here, here and here.
Here are the basics:
Set up an office on Main Street
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