Poynter Online – Al’s Morning Meeting. How a Former Local TV Anchor Started a Profitable Online News Site Posted by Al Tompkins at 12:09 AM on Dec. 28, 2009 When my friend Rick Kupchella left his job as anchor and investigative reporter at KARE-TV in Minneapolis, many of us wondered what he was thinking. He …
Poynter Online – Transformation Tracker. The Future of Nonprofit Journalism Posted by David Shedden at 9:25 AM on Dec. 21, 2009 Latest links related to news organizations as nonprofits: A Perception Issue Jim Barnett, The NonProfit Road, Dec. 20, 2009 (See also: Nonprofits and Journalism: An Interview with Mark Jurkowitz The Editors, The Nonprofit Qaurterly, …
Publishing Veteran Robert Merry Joins Intelligence Firm STRATFOR.
This treaty would be the first one that is not done for the copyright owner, but for the user of the works — for the blind to make a copyrighted work accessible,” says Manon Ress, a policy analyst at Knowledge Ecology International, a Washington, D.C.-based human rights lobby that helped spearhead the proposal. via Copyright …
McAdams said that more news sites are using aggregation because they'll try anything, but that's not a business model.”If they're looking at aggregation as a strategy, it's kind of hard to do with no personnel,” she said. “Good aggregation requires human intelligence … the whole idea of curation is you've got a human who knows …
MediaPost Publications Consumers Will Pay For News if Unique, Not Yet Known 12/02/2009. Totally shatters assumptions about news. Interesting that it was accompanied by ad for NPR sponsorships — the new way to advertise.