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A next generation in Ann Arbor

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 27/07/2009

(First, full disclosure: I consulted for Advance Publications on its project in Ann Arbor and worked for the company for a dozen years as president and creative director of its online arm, Advance.net.)AnnArbor.com launched on Friday. I think it’s a bigger deal than it seems at first glance. A ...

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Guardian column: Charity v. collaboration

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 27/07/2009

My Guardian column this week expands on an idea I discussed here, about viewing charity to news organizations as collaboration in the news ecosystem. The kicker: “Charity is likely to be a contributor to the future of news. So will volunteer labour in the form of bloggers and crowdsourcing. Bu ...

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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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How (and why) to replace the AP

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 24/07/2009

The Associated Press is becoming the enemy of the internet because it is fighting the link and the link is the basis of the internet. From Richard Perez-Pena’s New York Times story today:Tom Curley, The A.P.s president and chief executive, said the companys position was that even minimal use o ...

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When news people lose sense

Posted by Jeff Jarvis on 17/07/2009

Later note: Please see Howard Weaver in the comments, who says I got wrong what he was saying. Financial Times editor Lionel Barber predicted that “almost all” news organizations will be charging in a year just because they need to. Meanwhile, former McClatchy news exec Howard Weaver thi ...

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