Midwest newspapers anti-up $30K to eye for-profit collaborative to monetize Internet content
Three Midwest newspaper associations — Kansas, Missouri and Iowa — met Nov. 20 and formed a coordinated effort to manage monetization of their content on the web, raising in minutes an initial $30,000 to start planning. They’ve asked a retiring executive of the Iowa Press Association, Bill Monroe, to look into the idea. A key [...]

What will be the future economic supports for journalism?
I was asked today to provide one key thought about te future economics of journalism. Here’s what I said: The future economic supports for journalism will have to be multifaceted, because no single stream will do it. There will be direct support from users — subscriptions, per-click, patronage, donations. And there will be indirect support — [...]

NAA effort launched to identify features of “content” people will pay for: Tweet #newspay
The National Newspaper Association has launched an informal exercise to try an assembling best thinking about types of content the public might be willing to pay for. The effort is noted in a comment to a post by veteran news executive Alan Mutter on his blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur: LINK: http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-sell-news-on-web-checklist.html In one comment, Beth Lawton, a [...]

NAA effort launched to identify features of “content” people will pay for: Tweet #newspay
The National Newspaper Association has launched an informal exercise to try an assembling best thinking about types of content the public might be willing to pay for. The effort is noted in a comment to a post by veteran news executive Alan Mutter on his blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur: LINK: http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-sell-news-on-web-checklist.html In one comment, Beth Lawton, a [...]

In interview, Google’s Schmidt comes off rather supportive of newspapers’ role in democracy
The topical blog Search Engine Land and its editor-in-chief, Danny Sullivan, scored a long interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt posted Sat., Oct. 3, at 8 a.m. In it, Schmidt comes off as rather supportive of newspapers’ role supporting democracy through investigative journalism, says he sees it as a “moral obligation” of Google to help [...]