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Notes on online business models

By Julie Starr | Published: January 19, 2009
The Carnival of Journalism, a group of journalism bloggers who collectively tackle a particular topic each month or so, have convened to discuss this question: How do you financially support journalism online? So if you're interested in business models for journalism it might be worth keeping an eye on.
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Link wrap: NY Times, iTunes for news, Al Jazeera footage

By Julie Starr | Published: January 16, 2009
Michael Hirschorn ponders on the future of journalism and the New York Times' chance of survival in www.theatlantic.com:
The Web site, nytimes.com, boasted an impressive 20 million unique users for the month of October, making it the fifth-ranked news site on the Internet in terms of total visitors. (The October numbers were boosted by interest in the election, but still …) The print product, meanwhile, is sold to a mere million readers a day and dropping, and the Sunday print edition to 1.4 million (and also dropping). Print and Web metrics are not apples-to-apples, but it’s intuitively the case that the Web has extended The Times’ reach many times over.
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Idea #355: aggregate blogs and print them

By Julie Starr | Published: January 16, 2009
The Printed Blog logoWhile on the subject of business models, Joshua Karp in the US is experimenting with The Printed Blog, a daily round-up of aggregated blogposts printed and distributed for free. It bills itself as "an independent media outlet that aggregates user-generated content from the Internet and publishes it twice daily via print. The result is a revolutionary newspaper that reads and functions like a web feed - yet can still be enjoyed on the train or spread across the breakfast table, for an uninterrupted, pleasurably tactile experience.
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Twelve questions to ask about your business

By Julie Starr | Published: January 16, 2009
Question MarkPaul Bradshaw of Online Journalism Blog has a list of very good questions to ask yourself if you're in the news business and searching for an online business model. And who in the news business isn't? In a slide show he's posted on SlideShare (it's embedded here too), Paul suggests thinking about a model that doesn't rely on advertising or subscriptions and to think outside of content - "people pay for platforms and services".
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Common Craft on its success and business models

By Julie Starr | Published: December 30, 2008
ReadWriteWeb have done a nice end-of-year profile on Common Craft, the folk who make the 'In Plain English' videos. It's a nice read and the part about why Common Craft decided to move away from its custom video service into its current licencing business model is interesting:
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