Posts under ‘Business Models’

MinnPost.com has launched — and it’ll be a useful addition to the journalism scene in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. As far as I can tell, however, it has nearly zero to do with edge-in community journalism.
Still, an interesting experiment and one to watch.

(This is the fifth in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined as they find a home on a more permanent area of the Center for Citizen Media web site. [...]

(This is the fourth in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined as they find a home on a more permanent area of the Center for Citizen Media web site. [...]

(This is the third in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined as they find a home on a more permanent area of the Center for Citizen Media web site. To [...]

(This is the second in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined as they find a home on a more permanent area of the Center for Citizen Media web site. To [...]

(This is the first in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined as they find a home on a more permanent area of the Center for Citizen Media web site.   To that end, [...]

Good news: We’re about to launch a first in a series of postings about citizen media as a business. Specifically, we’ll be exploring possible business models for citizen journalism and the processes surrounding the creation of a website.
The principal researcher and writer for this project is Ryan McGrady, a new media graduate student at [...]

I have an op-ed piece in today’s San Francisco Chronicle urging the nation’s community foundations — which are holding a conference this week in San Francisco — to play a growing role in keeping local journalism vibrant. It starts:
As America wakes up to the crumbling of basic infrastructure, with Minnesota’s bridge collapse the most recent [...]

Ken Doctor asks if MinnPost.com is A Broadside of Next Wave Journalism. He observes that the local daily papers have been laying off scores of journalists, for one thing:
All publishers like the Star Tribune and the Pioneer Press have done is create a small opening. Yes, they are reeling, but they are still taking in [...]

Scott Karp reports “The Huffington Post Allows Top Commenters To Become Bloggers.”
I wish he’d asked the obvious question: Will any of these people get paid? As far as I know, Huffington doesn’t pay her bloggers, even the well-known ones.
Apparently the topic didn’t come up. Karp defends Huffingon’s no-pay approach in the comments.
This is a great [...]