Laura Oliver has done some nice audio interviews from last week's News Innovation London event.
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Kevin Anderson, who has a new job title at The Guardian, which I missed, is talking about startups trailing new journalism funding models:
When one or more journalists gather together, they shall talk redundancies...
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- Circulate: they do semantic analysis on your content. Users sign up, and the system gives you new content based on your implicit and explicit interests.
- Journalism Online: High-powered startup. They're doing an arm-twisting job with content providers. Kevin doesn't see what their proposition is for users.
- ViewPass: Gated content - create a network of content providers
- Kachingle: Gift economy way of funding content: based on attention.
- Niche advertising networks.
Zombie debate about paywalls is back. NYT looks like they're considering $5 for the content.
One problem with all these monetisation models is that they're all focused on the publishers' needs, not the readers' needs.
Continue reading #newsinnovation : New News Business Models.
I'm at the News Innovation London event all afternoon, and I'll be blogging the most interesting bits here and in later posts as we go, as long as power and WiFi hold out. :)
A whole bunch of the usual suspects are here, including two from The Guardian who have pointed a Flip Video camera at me already...
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