Posts under ‘Business Models’

Wall Street Journal: Free, Legal and Ignored. As a student at Cornell University, Angelo Petrigh had access to free online music via a legal music-downloading service his school provided. Yet the 21-year-old still turned to illegal file-sharing programs. The reason: While Cornell’s online music program, through Napster, gave him and other students free, legal downloads, […]

Nick Denton, in a posting called “Battening down,” faces some financial music as he shakes up his blog titles. By far the most interesting line: “For editorial talent, we now pay within the range of mainstream media.” The business model from the start has included low pay to rising stars. For some the gig was […]

Lulu TV says it’ll help video creators make money, but I’m definitely unclear on the site’s concept. Peter Wayner, in the New York Times, says: The Web site, which lets people upload and watch video clips, said last week that it would begin charging a $14.95 monthly fee for a “pro” account and putting 80 […]

Rafat Ali at PaidContent discusses “The Next Big Step: Announcing Our Funding, from Patricof’s Greycroft Partners” — and we get another view of what’s coming in the business of blogging and other conversational media.

It is genuine and excellent news to see that Om Malik, as he writes in “Its Time To Transition,” is going independent. His blog is required reading in Silicon Valley, and he’s one of the best journalists I’ve encountered, period. He’s amused to have been scooped by the ValleyWag blog. This reminds me of when […]

The Knight Foundation’s Gary Kebbel writes: We’re seeking your comment, and that of your readers, on a multimillion dollar request for proposals that we are calling “The Knight Brothers 21st Century News Challenge.” The request will be issued in September, but now we are seeking ideas that will help us shape the rules of the […]

Journalist Chris Carey is partnering with Mark Cuban on a new project that offers great promise and raises some serious questions. Chris writes, in an e-mail: I’m leaving the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at the end of this week to launch an investigative business journalism site, Sharesleuth.com. The blog-style news site will be devoted to exposing […]

As part of the series of columns I’m writing for BBC News, I answer readers’ questions every fortnight (that’s British for every other week). Here’s the latest set of questions and answers from this column, which appeared two weeks ago.

Jeff Jarvis proposes the open ad marketplace, “that would allow advertisers to find the best blogs and bloggers to find the best ad deals.” I will quibble on several details in an upcoming post, but overall this could be an important move toward a democratized media future. Read it all.

It’s not the competition from bloggers and citizen journalists, as I note in my new BBC column, “The changing mix of money and media,” but rather the way Internet companies are taking away the base of revenue that pays for the journalism.