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The model of the new media model

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 03/10/2009

Leo Laporte, creator of This Week in Tech and the TWiT network of podcasts, spoke before the Online News Association this week and presented the very model of the new media company: small, highly targeted, serving a highly engaged public, and profitable. (Full disclosure: I am a panelist on TWiTR ...

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The X Prizes for news (and media)

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 25/09/2009

A conversation with our Knight Foundation friends at Aspen inspired me to think through what an X Prize for news could accomplish. Then this week’s report in the New York Times about the awarding of the NetFlix X Prize – and the far greater value it created, not just for NetFlix, but for ...

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NewBizNews on On the Media

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 22/08/2009

On the Media’s Bob Garfield interviewed me about the CUNY New Business Models for News Project. I made one error: the new news organization’s editorial staff after three years is 46; total is 90. Bob was nice enough to plug my book. Now I’ll plug his, The Chaos Scenario. I just bou ...

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The death of snail mail & Sunday papers

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 25/07/2009

The Washington Post reports that “in the past year alone, the Postal Service has seen the single largest drop-off in mail volume in its 234-year history…. That downward trend is only accelerating. The Postal Service projects a decline of about 10 billion pieces of mail in each of the nex ...

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It aint over

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 10/07/2009

It wasn’t Craig’s fault. It was the internet’s. Almost $10 billion in annual newspaper classified revenue has disappeared (since its 2000 high, versus 2008) and it was essentially replaced by an estimated, unverified $100 million for craigslist with fewer than 30 employees. But the ...

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