I spend a tremendous amount of time online researching and reading various opinions on the “future of journalism.” It can be easy to become consumed by speculation about the iPad, the merits of paywalls or “metered models,” and the pros and cons of DemandMedia’s content strategy and to loose sight of journalism’s present issues.
Newspapers are worried.
And yet, they have some of the most enviable resources in the online space: professional journalists and opinion leaders with fact-checking chops capable of producing nuanced, in-depth and often tide-turning prose.
Yahoo, AOL and DemandMedia could be seen as potential competitors, but only if newspapers chose to relax their standards of journalistic excellence.
First it was Yahoo, then AOL and now Google is starting to encroach on DemandMedia’s “demand” content creation space.
The Financial Times reported yesterday in “Google shadow over new media groups” that the dominant search engine obtained a patent for “technology that could position it to compete with a new breed of digital media companies that are generating story ideas for the internet by mining online search data.”
CM Summit kicked off Internet Week in New York, and Perfect Market was in attendance to soak up inspiration from innovative thinkers in online media.
Perhaps the most exciting part of the Summit for this New York Times junkie was the conversation between John Batelle and Arthur Sulzberger, chairman of that celebrated publication. The conversation started out, unsurprisingly, with a discussion of paywalls or, in New York Times parlance, “metered models.”
23 June 2010 By Admin
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