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What crisis?

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 31/08/2009

At the Aspen Institute FOCAS event, where we presented our CUNY New Business Models for News, there came to be an unspoken debate – that is, an idea thrown out but never really engaged – about whether there is a crisis in news and journalism. I now say that there isn’t a crisis. Th ...

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NewBizNews & Hyperpersonal news streams

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 18/08/2009

We presented our CUNY New Business Models for News at the Aspen Institute and on the web yesterday. I’ve been sitting in meetings nonstop, so I haven’t had the chance to read all the reaction yet. But so far, we’ve met our goals: to get these models and specifics discussed and to i ...

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Now the FCC cares about journalism

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 14/07/2009

First John Kerry and then the FTC fretted about journalism and what government should do and now FCC Commissioner Michael Copps is swinging his worry beads. CNSNews.com (I hadn’t heard of it before) says Copps is circulating an internal Notification of Inquiry (a step toward rule-making) about ...

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Metadata for news

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 11/07/2009

The Associated Press and the Media Standards Trust (never heard of them) have proposed a new standard for metadata for news. Depending on its use and intent, I think it’s a good idea to add more data to news. We all should add into the standard, though, or else it will come from the perspectiv ...

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Training the crowd as journalists

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 10/07/2009

In the Philippines, the ABS-CBN TV network has been training citizens – 1,000 in the first recent class, 700 in the next – to report on the upcoming election there. They call it the Boto Mo iPatrol and count 15,000 members. Their curriculum:They will orient the “patrollers” o ...

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