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Patronage

So far, we have examined direct revenue from users as a matter of access and ownership: a copyright-era model. And we have dealt in one…

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Digital First — What Then?

When John Paton was employed by hedge-fund investors to manage two large newspaper chains and to make sense of…

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The Pricing Paradox of Information

In Adam Smith’s paradox of value, he wondered why, if water is vital to life and diamonds are not…

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The Article is Dead. Long Live the Article.

I come not to bury the article but to praise it. Machined to near-perfection over a…

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Reinventing TV News

I don’t want to dwell on this but I have to say that TV news — especially local TV news — sucks. It favors heat over light…

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Business Ecosystems

As specialists, beats are efficient. But they are hardly sufficient to meet the complete needs of the larger community…

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Curation

Some say “curation” is one of the most overused buzzwords of the day. Guilty as charged. I use the word often because it encapsulates the…

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Capital: Investment in the Future

It took a half-century after Gutenberg’s invention of the press for the book to take on the form we…

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Content vs. Service

Is news really a content business? Should it be? Perhaps defining ourselves as content creators is a trap. That worldview…

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Data as News

Data is (or are, if you insist) the darling of the news business these days. Visualizations of data — “data viz” in the parlance — are…

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