News: New form New structure New opportunity Jeff Jarvis City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism

News: New form New structure new opportunity

Process v. product

Process v. product

Process v. product

Process v. product Page v. stream

Process v. product Post-industrial economy: no longer confined by means of production & distribution Transparency opens up news to input New tools: Google Wave, Twitter, phone... End of the myth of perfection: Beta news Enabled by the link

Post-industrial economy: no longer confined by means of production & distribution

Transparency opens up news to input

New tools: Google Wave, Twitter, phone...

End of the myth of perfection: Beta news

Enabled by the link

News: New form New structure new opportunity

Link v. content economy

Link v. content economy Imperatives: Must be searchable to be found Forces specialization: Do what you do best and link to the rest Forces efficiency Recipient of links monetizes links (Google is not the enemy)

Imperatives:

Must be searchable to be found

Forces specialization: Do what you do best and link to the rest

Forces efficiency

Recipient of links monetizes links

(Google is not the enemy)

Distributed v. centralized ‘ If the news is that important, it will find me’ –college student to research, NY Times, 2008 Audience becomes distributor News as feeds: RSS, Twitter, Facebook… The embeddable newspaper The API

‘ If the news is that important, it will find me’ –college student to research, NY Times, 2008

Audience becomes distributor

News as feeds: RSS, Twitter, Facebook…

The embeddable newspaper

The API

Ecosystem v. company

Ecosystem v. company NewsInnovation.com NewsInnovation.com/models

Network v. corporate No longer controlled by monopolies or oligopolies in markets: Entrepreneurial journalism New competition for private and state-owned media The need for business cooperation on revenue and editorial cooperation for efficiency

No longer controlled by monopolies or oligopolies in markets: Entrepreneurial journalism

New competition for private and state-owned media

The need for business cooperation on revenue and editorial cooperation for efficiency

Collaborative v. owned For efficiency, quality, completeness, news must be collaborative with new contributors The value of volunteerism: See Wikipedia and real membership Opens up journalism as a task v. profession Yields new needs: education, networks, curation….

For efficiency, quality, completeness, news must be collaborative with new contributors

The value of volunteerism: See Wikipedia and real membership

Opens up journalism as a task v. profession

Yields new needs: education, networks, curation….

News: New form New structure New opportunity

3 needs Engagement: making news truly of the community – 0.5% of online time on paper sites v. 17% for social Effectiveness: making media more valuable for marketers Efficiency: reducing the marginal cost of new journalism to near-zero

Engagement: making news truly of the community – 0.5% of online time on paper sites v. 17% for social

Effectiveness: making media more valuable for marketers

Efficiency: reducing the marginal cost of new journalism to near-zero

Entrepreneurship To build sustainable models To support innovation Forms of support: > Grants > Incubation > Investment > Networking > X Prizes (See CUNY’s Entrepreneurial Journalism course & NewBizNews Project)

To build sustainable models

To support innovation

Forms of support: > Grants > Incubation > Investment > Networking > X Prizes

(See CUNY’s Entrepreneurial Journalism course & NewBizNews Project)

Innovation in form & tools New ways to gather & share news Google Wave, phones, location-based, assignment tools, social distribution…. New tools & skills Mobile, Wave, data base, social

New ways to gather & share news Google Wave, phones, location-based, assignment tools, social distribution….

New tools & skills Mobile, Wave, data base, social

Transparency as default Impact on the ecosystem of news: Unlimited watchdogs feeding reporters In government In business In journalism In funding Personal publicness: The benefits of connection

Impact on the ecosystem of news: Unlimited watchdogs feeding reporters

In government

In business

In journalism

In funding

Personal publicness: The benefits of connection

Education Media literacy: consuming & making Tools of journalism & media Tools of business to sustain news Newsroom as classroom

Media literacy: consuming & making

Tools of journalism & media

Tools of business to sustain news

Newsroom as classroom

y Philanthropy

Googley Philanthropy Transparency — Benefits & risks Collaboration Social: connections Beta philanthropy: process Philanthropy as platform (infrastructure) New givers: self-organizing crowds Money, ideas, action as value (Wikipedia) Investment & entrepreneurship

Transparency — Benefits & risks

Collaboration

Social: connections

Beta philanthropy: process

Philanthropy as platform (infrastructure)

New givers: self-organizing crowds

Money, ideas, action as value (Wikipedia)

Investment & entrepreneurship

Generation

Generation Google and the impact on: Friendship — We stay linked forever Publicness — Is privacy over? Thought — Does the internet make us smarter? Politics and government — Is this the transparent administration? Talent — This is the creation generation

Friendship — We stay linked forever

Publicness — Is privacy over?

Thought — Does the internet make us smarter?

Politics and government — Is this the transparent administration?

Talent — This is the creation generation

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