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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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Tinkering with the news

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 22/09/2009

This morning, Glam.com – the model of the new network model of media – extended its Twitter aggregator, Tinker.com, into news at Tinker.com/news. It’s very simple and that’s what makes it intriguing: headlines mixed with current discussion of them. Yesterday, New York Times d ...

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Did we ever pay for content?

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 19/09/2009

In an essay that, on first blush, ranks near to Clay Shirky’s seminal thinking-the-unthinkable think piece, Paul Graham argues that we never paid for content:In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren’t really selling it either. If the content was what t ...

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Is journalism an industry?

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 18/09/2009

Journalism is a business – that is how it is going to sustain itself; that is a key precept of the New Business Models for News Project. But is it still an industry dominated by companies and employment? In the first part of his analysis of the news business, BusinessWeek chief economist Micha ...

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NewBizNews: The podcast

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 13/09/2009

The latest edition of the Guardian MediaTalkUSA podcast, which I present, features the work of CUNY’s New Business Models for News Project and discussion with two folks who know hyperlocal: Deb Galant, founder of Baristanet, whom I crowned the queen of hyperlocal; and Jim Willse, editor of the ...

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