The 5th Estate: Citizen News » Customization http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate How economics, open source, digitization, and the 21st century are transforming journalism by Barbara K. Iverson Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:07:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How GlobalPost Makes Money http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/2011/02/how-globalpost-makes-money/ http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/2011/02/how-globalpost-makes-money/#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:32:11 +0000 Barbara Iverson http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/?p=705
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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 left a long and successful career on TV to start an online news aggregation site. But in the process, Kupchella found a new love for journalism. He created jobs for others and Kupchella says he is making money.

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Behavioral econ video examples

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via Consumed – Boxers, Not Briefs – NYTimes.com.

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Skinni Popcorn.

Like BreakingTweets but for movies. This site does UK as well as US.

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1.For the Elkhart Project, which is entering its fifth month, MSNBC.com assigns one staff member to Elkhart, Ind., at almost all times to ensure a regular output of blog posts, slide shows, videos and Twitter messages. In Elkhart, readers and viewers see the effects of job losses, foreclosures and stimulus money projects — what MSNBC.com calls “stories of struggle and recovery in America.”

2.The project is not exactly a model of hyperlocal journalism (a term for Web-powered neighborhood news) because it leaves most of the day-to-day reporting to the local newspaper, The Elkhart Truth, which it counts as a partner.

Instead, “we’re focused on the themes that are familiar to all Americans and using our reporting in Elkhart to deal with those universal issues,” said Jennifer Sizemore, the editor in chief of MSNBC.com, which is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.

3.Dan Gillmor, who runs a center for digital media entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, praised the project’s ambition, but suggested that MSNBC.com should encourage genuine collaboration with the people of Elkhart, perhaps by incorporating local blogs and videos more fully. “The people of the community could contribute a lot more if they weren’t being seen as sources for interviews or anecdotes, or, to put it less kindly, as journalistic lab rats,” he said.

To buttress its big-picture coverage, MSNBC.com shares reporting with The Elkhart Truth. Ms. Porter said she was most intrigued by the collaboration of the national news organization and the local one.

Rather than merely parachuting into a local story, she said, “this is a commitment model, integrating the local news resources with the national perspective over the long haul.”

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]]> http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/2009/08/news-site-keeps-focus-on-town%e2%80%99s-recession-nytimes-com/feed/ 0 The Rating Game – The Atlantic (July/August 2009) http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/2009/07/the-rating-game-the-atlantic-julyaugust-2009/ http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/2009/07/the-rating-game-the-atlantic-julyaugust-2009/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:17:37 +0000 Barbara Iverson http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/?p=174 The proliferation in ratings is already changing societal dynamics. Look at its impact on the relationship between doctors and patients. According to Pew, 47 percent of Internet users now search online for information about doctors. Ratings, though still just a trickle, are increasingly part of that information. Now, if a medical practice routinely leaves patients in the waiting room for two hours—or leaves a spare scalpel in someone’s abdomen—the whole world will know. The power shift ticks off doctors so much, about 2,000 have turned to a company called Medical Justice, which offers advice about using legal and bullying tactics to stop doctor ratings. (Predictably, lawyers have sued—so far unsuccessfully—to shut down Avvo, a lawyer-rating site.)

Today’s ratings are only the raw material for what’s to come. Rearden Commerce’s Web-based personal assistant already helps employees in corporations like ConAgra make travel plans, by quizzing them about their age, income, job, family situation, lifestyle, and preferences like favorite types of restaurants. (JPMorgan Chase will roll out a Rearden-based travel adviser to its credit-card customers later this year.) The next step, says Rearden CEO Patrick Grady, is to pull in ratings from all over the Web and mash them up with anonymous information from Rearden users. Then, if a beef-loving cat-litter salesman is traveling to Dallas, the system can recommend a top-rated steak house where other cat-litter reps have had luck taking pet-shop owners to close deals.

via The Rating Game – The Atlantic (July/August 2009).

]]> http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/2009/07/the-rating-game-the-atlantic-julyaugust-2009/feed/ 0 Dallas – Unfair Park – This American Life’s Ira Glass Points Toward the “Wide-Open” Future of Journalism http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/2009/07/dallas-unfair-park-this-american-lifes-ira-glass-points-toward-the-wide-open-future-of-journalism/ http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/2009/07/dallas-unfair-park-this-american-lifes-ira-glass-points-toward-the-wide-open-future-of-journalism/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:07:42 +0000 Barbara Iverson http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/?p=158 “I can imagine that would be a place that journalism could move towards and survive,” said Glass, suggesting a casual conversation would replace the medium’s more “stiff” formalities. Because Glass, you see, is one of the few in the media who doesn’t believe these are terrible times for the news industry. Instead, he said, “I feel like it’s a great time, because it’s wide-open.” Sounds crazy, right?

via Dallas – Unfair Park – This American Life’s Ira Glass Points Toward the “Wide-Open” Future of Journalism.

]]> http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/2009/07/dallas-unfair-park-this-american-lifes-ira-glass-points-toward-the-wide-open-future-of-journalism/feed/ 0 ‘School of One’ Pilot Program Under Way in Chinatown Middle School 131 – NYTimes.com http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/2009/07/%e2%80%98school-of-one%e2%80%99-pilot-program-under-way-in-chinatown-middle-school-131-nytimes-com/ http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/2009/07/%e2%80%98school-of-one%e2%80%99-pilot-program-under-way-in-chinatown-middle-school-131-nytimes-com/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:06:41 +0000 Barbara Iverson http://www.biverson.com/5th-estate/?p=21 students arrive at school, they receive their individual playlists identifying the lessons they have to complete for the day, which could involve virtual tutoring online, computer worksheets or small-group lessons with a classroom teacher. Their schedules are also displayed on large television screens, akin to flight schedule displays in airports.

In a room a few steps away, several administrators spend their day looking over more than a dozen computer screens displaying the students’ playlists, how quickly those students are progressing through their tasks and what the students are looking at on their own screens.

via ‘School of One’ Pilot Program Under Way in Chinatown Middle School 131 – NYTimes.com.

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