Posts under ‘Business Models’

On the Wall Street Journal site, Jason Calacanis (co-founder of Weblogs Inc.) and Alan Meckler (CEO of Jupitermedia Inc.) debate a topic on more and more minds: “Can Bloggers Make Money?“

Joshua Ellis, at Zenarchery.com, wrote: The first Saturday in April is one of the two days a year when the Trinity test site in New Mexico is open to the public — the next time is in October. Trinity, if you’re not familiar, is where the first nuclear bomb was detonated in July of 1945. […]

Reuters: Newspapers buying into blog service. A syndication service that delivers commentary from 600 bloggers for use by newspaper publishers is set to launch tomorrow, further blurring the lines that divide blogs and mainstream media.

Reuters: Disney to make TV shows available free on Web. Walt Disney Co.’s ABC Television will offer some of its most popular shows, such as “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost,” for free on the Internet in a two-month trial, the company said on Monday. Advertising revenue will support the trial run on ABC.com, with advertisers AT&T […]

Steve Outing asks: “Does a new form of journalism require a new business model?” Read his answers here. (Note: Outing is a member of our Board of Advisors; see also the disclosure page.)

Washington Post: For Future Readers, Papers Should Look Online. The newspaper industry may be afflicted with declining circulation, falling stock prices and for-sale signs, but two reports issued yesterday suggest newspapers can find new hope in their Web sites.

Mark Glaser, MediaShift: Sense of Community Motivates You to Work for Free.

The SF Chronicle reports that Current TV, the cable channel that’s doing some innovative bottom-up work to inspire citizen-generated content, will be getting carriage on Comcast’s cable networks. This is a milestone for Current and, maybe, for the genre. deal to make the San Francisco company’s programs available to more Comcast subscribers.

Good news for citizen journalists everywhere: Jonathan Weber’s New West Network has raised equity financing to continue and expand one of the best initiatives of its kind. New West has more in common with traditional media than most citizen media, but it’s engaging the audience at several levels.

The L.A. Times picked up on an interesting thread from the State of the News Media 2006 report, released last week. L.A. Times: A “new paradox of journalism” has emerged in which the number of news outlets continues to grow, yet the number of stories covered and the depth of many reports is decreasing, according […]