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On All Things Considered

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 07/10/2009

NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik came to CUNY to report on the effort to find new business models for news, including our Knight Foundation funded presentation at the Aspen Institute. It turned into a bit of a profile of yours truly.

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Journalism as capitalism: Now thats Gods work

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 02/10/2009

The only way that journalism is going to be sustainable is if it is profitable – and out of that market relationship comes many other benefits: accountability to the public it serves; independence from funders’ agendas; growth; innovation. This is the future for journalism we envisioned ...

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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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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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Wave and news

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 19/09/2009

When Google Wave was announced, I got all jittery-happy about the possibilities it presented for news. Now, from a Belgian site, via a German site, I find a video interview with Wave’s project manager, Stephanie Hannon, speculating about its use in news:Google Wave, une opportunité pour les ...

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