Comments on: What We Talk About When We Talk About News

By: Rupert vs Google II « The Tizona Group

Rupert vs Google II « The Tizona Group — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:19:17 +0000

[...] opinion piece titled “How Google Can Help Newspapers,” Schmidt set out to argue what has been said a million times before, and what everyone but news executives in denial will admit: The Internet [...]

By: Does Google Even Understand What News Is? – GigaOM

Does Google Even Understand What News Is? – GigaOM — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:01:16 +0000

By: Don’t Call the Gravedigger — Newspapers Aren’t Dead (Yet)

Don’t Call the Gravedigger — Newspapers Aren’t Dead (Yet) — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:01:20 +0000

[...] are going through an unprecedented period of turmoil. Surely some companies will perish, but not all. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this topic as my new company is based [...]

By: adolfo foronda

adolfo foronda — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:07:18 +0000

Spot.us seems to be a promising start up that addresses this very issue http://www.nerdstalker.com/2008/11/spotus-launches-today-nerd-stalker-16.html

By: Sports News

Sports News — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:52:25 +0000

South Korea’s OhMyNews is ranked at 12,195 at Alexa while Wikinews.org is not ranked in Alexa’s Top 1 million sites.

By: The Old Media is not going out of business (neither are banks) : The Global Unanimocracy Network

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:57:53 +0000

[...] at Om Malik’s site, blogger Kevin Kelleher talks about the death of the Old Media: newspapers, magazines, etc. Kevin is wrong, as are a great many [...]

By: A.B. Dada

A.B. Dada — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:55:12 +0000

Kevin,

You’re right, I misrepresented my angle: it isn’t because the paleomedia isn’t wanted or isn’t necessarily profitable, it’s that they’re overleveraged due to bad gambles that they’re dying. Debt is what is killing the average paleomedia outlet, not lack of demand for what they create.

I do agree that simplifying their structure and content limit makes sense, absolutely. But not getting into debt in the first place is a far wiser proposition.

By: Kevin Kelleher

Kevin Kelleher — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:58:09 +0000

@A.B. Dada: If you read that and thought I was saying all news companies would go out of business, then maybe I wasn’t clear enough. Some will, but as with cars and music, the business model supporting newsrooms is changing and companies that adapt will survive. My point above was that it makes more sense now to focus on what that new model will be and how newsrooms can adapt.

By: A.B. Dada

A.B. Dada — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:04:56 +0000

That would be Kevin, not Om. Grr :)

By: A.B. Dada

A.B. Dada — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:04:01 +0000

Wrong, Om.

News companies are not going out of the business.

Car companies are not going out of business.

Banks are not going out of business.

Internet companies are not going out of business.

Households are not “going out of business.”

Want to know who is going out of business?

Overleveraged businesses and individuals with heavy debt. It’s quite simple.

By: Quickthink » Blog Archive » QuickUpdate - News on The Demise of News

Quickthink » Blog Archive » QuickUpdate - News on The Demise of News — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:24:28 +0000

[...] Giga ran a post today on the demise of news industry with this quote The destruction of the old business model for news is clear, certain, even inevitable. [...]

By: Chuck Peters

Chuck Peters — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:49:03 +0000

As we are creating C3, Complete Community Connection, we are looking at a nested series of local information blogs, some by us and some by others, as the foundation for our efforts.

This is the year of implementation. I will let you know how it goes!

Chuck

By: Mohit Malik

Mohit Malik — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:27:30 +0000

The New York Times ran a story on alternative online news outlets a few days ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/business/media/18voice.html

By: Kevin Kelleher

Kevin Kelleher — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:49:10 +0000

@Jason: You may be right that it’s just me. I did take a good look at it when writing this, and have before several times. Each time I left feeling it isn’t a must read for me. I am a little skeptical of citizen journalism in general (David Simon has critiqued it much better than I can), but am very open to being persuaded otherwise.

By: Kevin Kelleher

Kevin Kelleher — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:45:08 +0000

@Bill Rice: These are interesting times, in the sense of the famous proverb. I do think there is some creative destruction here, but I tried to avoid referencing Joseph Schumpeter since he’s being invoked a lot these days, sometimes too casually.

By: Kevin Kelleher

Kevin Kelleher — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:40:48 +0000

@Ed: Thanks for noticing. Carver is great (with or without Lish), that story in particular.