Rethinking the news

Interesting thought piece by Jeff Jarvis on the state of the newspaper industry

The American Press Institute puts $2 million into a project to find new business models for newspapers but I think they make a few mistakes: First, it’s not about new models for newspapers; it’s about new models for news. Second, the august group they gather for the task, though smart and experienced, are all from the big companies and the old ways. The newspaper industry’s worst fault is that it is insular and rejects new blood. This would have been a chance to find new people (and no, I don’t mean me) who are doing new things in new ways. That, ladies and gentlemen, is where the new models are going to come from, not from the old ways.

But then you only have to look at OhMyNews with its 26,000 citizen reporters as a clue.

Or have a read of life is local

Or even consider how one might rethink the classifieds to offer greater value in a digital world since that is where a newspapers profits come from.

And the Big Blog Company has an interesting post to add to the debate

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