It’s Time for a News Corps
Now, the nation's youth are, in their idealism, fleeing to farms, organic ones of course, as a way to make their mark on the new world. They are willing to shovel manure before dawn, in the belief that...
View ArticlePocantico Signals New Networked Future for “Watchdog” News Sites
Pocantico once served as one of the Rockefellers’ family estates. Stately, 45 minutes north of Manhattan, it speaks to the wealth of an earlier industrial era. The Rockefellers, of course, built their...
View ArticleThe Star Tribune Hears a Who
Saving journalism wonkfestapaloozas are bumping up against each other in our calendars. Can’t attend each and every one?; take in its webcast, live or archived! As Salon CEO Richard Gingras has sagely...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of Membership
Part One. First published at the Nieman Journalism Lab. New journalism is hungry for new business models. Beyond millions in foundation start-up support, what will sustain these enterprises? One...
View Article“Public Media” $100 Million Plan: 100 Journalists Per City
We’ve seen lots of motion in the public radio world over the last year. We’ve seen 12 topical sites prominently launched in major cities, under the rubric of Project Argo. We’ve seen National Public...
View ArticleThe Newsonomics of Jeff Bezos Buying the Washington Post
First published at Nieman Journalism Lab It is a thunderbolt. If not tossed down from Mt. Olympus, it is thrown from Mt. Amazon, not far from Washington’s beatific Olympic Mountains. Jeff Bezos’s...
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