Another “Village Soup” site in Wareham, MA

Posted on July 13, 2010 by jestevens

I just added WarehamVillageSoup.com to the growing list of niche news sites and networks on Jurnos Wik. Anne Eisenmenger, founder and publisher of one of the affiliates of the Village Soup network, sends this info in a 7/12/10 email: “The first out-of-Maine licensee of Village Soup, we have simultaneously worked to “reinvent” the community newspaper. [...]

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Talkin’ about….WellCommons

Posted on June 6, 2010 by jestevens

For the last year, I’ve been head-down in development. My (poor neglected) blog, Facebook and Twitter accounts have seen few words, photos, graphs or video. However, now my head’s finally up, and it’s time to talk about what much of that last year has been about: WellCommons, the new local health site that we at [...]

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Journalism, journalists, j-schools and the new era

Posted on March 28, 2010 by jestevens

At LJWorld.com, we’ve created a new health site called WellCommons. It’s a very different way for a news organization to serve its community, because it uses the tools of the Web to integrate community and journalism. More on this in another post. How our community will change the structure and function of WellCommons, and, by [...]

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Yikes.

Posted on January 12, 2010 by jestevens

The other words I was starting to put in this headline: unrepresentative, half the story, less than half the story, and the whole story of Baltimore. How can I begin to characterize the research done by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, as reported in the LATimes article “Most original new reporting comes from traditional [...]

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Clone John Paton!

Posted on January 12, 2010 by jestevens

Jeff Jarvis did a fabulous interview with John Paton, who’s the new CEO of the Journal Register Company, which publishes 19 daily newspapers and more than 100 weeklies. Paton led ImpreMedia from legacy newspaper company to digital news company. Here’s a tease: The result was in less than two years we went from 9 products [...]

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Newspapers need to grok online advertising, too

Posted on December 30, 2009 by jestevens

Newspapers’ Online Strategies Failed in 2009 — in yesterday’s MediaDailyNews, Eric Sass pointed out that newspapers’ online revenues have been falling along with their print revenues. The reasons, he says, are that online revenues were concentrated in online classifieds, and those never became independent from print classifieds. As print continued to plummet, they took online [...]

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Solution’s right under our noses

Posted on December 29, 2008 by jestevens

A few days ago, in “Non-Profit Model for Newspapers May Be the Answer” in Editor & Publisher, Joe Mathewson suggested that newspapers might survive if they become nonprofits: The model is public broadcasting — or, even better, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Inc., which owns the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times. Not-for-profit, tax-exempt. No longer [...]

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Jurno’s Bright Future

Posted on December 15, 2008 by jestevens

According to Benjamin Adair on Weekend America, the death of news is greatly exaggerated. [ReJurno: We jurnos believe that wholeheartedly.] He pointed out three myths: 1. News organizations aren’t making money. “No, that’s not true at all,” says John Morton. Morton analyzes the newspaper industry and helps newspaper publishers figure out how to make money [...]

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