Lots of people trying lots of things to move newspapers online. Here’s another model: If all 10,000 subscribers are paying €14.99 a month, that would mean that El Mundo is bringing in almost €150,000 a month and is set to receive almost €1.8million in a year from its paid app – a significant sum. By [...]
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Over at the New Yorker, George Packer has an interesting and important essay about social media and its effects on culture, particularly the news. “Any journalist who cheerleads uncritically for Twitter is essentially asking for his own destruction,” he says. I’m not sure he’s right about that, but there are lots of hidden costs we [...]
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Here’ a lecture (video), this one on the future of news. It was presented as a community of learners lecture at Spring Arbor University in December 09 and also as an invited lecture sponsored by the World Journalism Institute at the College Media Advisors conference in Austin last fall.
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a wired classroom
