News: New form New structure New opportunity Jeff Jarvis City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism
Aug 23, 2014
News: New formNew structureNew opportunityJeff JarvisCity University of New York Graduate School of Journalism
News: New formNew structurenew 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
News: New formNew structurenew opportunity
Link v. content economy
Link v. content economyImperatives:• 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
Ecosystem v. company
Ecosystem v. company
NewsInnovation.comNewsInnovation.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
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….
News: New formNew structureNew 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
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)
Innovation in form & tools• New ways to gather & share news
Google Wave, phones, location-based, assignment tools, social distribution….
• New tools & skillsMobile, 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
Education• 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
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
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