Fremtidens journalistikk og forretningsmodeller

In 2006, the American Press Institute (API) published Newspaper Next, attempting to diagnose the newspaper industry and offer a roadmap for the future. The report, a blueprint for transformation, presented a recipe for creating new news business models, new ways to see opportunities, achieve growth and reshape news organisations.

Today, US print advertising is still in decline and digital ad income isn’t covering the gap. Circulation is falling or flat. Surviving newspaper companies are looking to merge; the rest are on their way to bankruptcy or emerging from it.

For the first time since 2007, the British tabloid The Independent has launched a new design of its web edition. Read how the editors describe what they wanted to achieve and have a look at the new design here.

Read the “Press Gazette” comments on the redesign here.

The digital income of the New York Times grows much quicker thant the digital income of The Times of London. The web site “Paid content” has the story.

There’s several differences between the approach of the two newspapers, and the reason for the steeper growth of the New York Times might be a combination of more than one factor. But The NY Times has a softer digital approach to potential digital customers than The Times of London.

From today, The Guardian will publish live the daily newslist kept by their editors. It provides a glimpse into the scheduled announcements, events and speeches that make up the news day of Britains most interesting newspaper. You will also be able to see what their editors think about the stories by reading their updates on Twitter in the panel opposite. The editors promise to include conversations about the day’s news, story ideas from correspondents and the latest information on stories they get during the day.

They will not show you everything. Some stories are under embargo or, sometimes, exclusives that they want to keep hidden from competitors until publication. They intend to open up for reader’s comments.

The seach engine company Google, announced Saturday that news organizations can add “standout” tags to stories – like exclusives or scoops – and the US edition of Google News will consider including the label with the story on its news homepage and in search results. There’s no guarantee a story tagged this way will be featured, but Google’s algorithm will make the tag a factor in its search engine decisions.

“We can showcase that standout piece of journalism in Google News by putting a `featured’ label in front of it,” said Google News product specialist David Smydra. “And that featured label will help that article persist while other news organizations are following and developing their coverage on that story.”

Profit is no guarantee for media integrity, according to an article by BBC general director Mark Thomson, in today’s The Guardian.

Mark Thomson refers to the 2009 MacTaggart speach of James Murdoch, son of Rupert, possibly the first and last media mogul. James’s main argument in his 2009 speach was that only profit can guarantee journalistic independence and integrity. But that was before the phone hacking scandal forced the Murdoch media group News International ltd to close it’s first, biggest and most profitable British newspaper, News of the World.

I samarbeid med Solidam og MBL/Cxense har Ajour Media utviklet en fler-medial publiseringsløsning av papiravisen uten behov for dedikerte ressurspersoner i noen ledd. Umiddelbart etter deadline blir papiravisen satt sammen igjen på nytt i XML format med med alle innholdelementer koordinert og pakket til en ePub pakke som transporteres til Solidam sin iPad løsning. Dette skjer helt uten inngripen fra noen av avisens medarbeidere. Alle koordinater blir nøyaktig registrert som muliggjør en fantastisk brukeropplevelse på iPad’en. Først ute til å ta i bruk løsningen er Helgelands Blad. Se www.solidam.com.

The Google chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt will give this years MacTaggart lecture to an audience of television executives in Edinburgh this Friday, th first person from outside the broadcasting sector to do so. -Google needs you, is a new approach to TV, after the company’s uncompromising stance in the past, when it was fighting legal actions from broadcasters and film studios over alleged copyright infringement. May be the Google chairman has picked up the old wisdom: if you can’t beat them, join them!

The Guardian has the story here

Even though Shibsted is among the most successful news media companies in the world, CEO Rolf Ryssdal is conserned about the ability to finance investigative journalism in the future. In spite of strong income growth, so far, the online media have not been able to fully compensate for the income generated by print. Nor have they been able to replace all the important work performed by the newspapers’ editorial departments.

Like most news publisers, Ryssdal is worried about the consequences for the funding of investigative journalism. The resources that most newspapers have available for investigative journalism are declining. The burning issue of finding sustainable revenue models to finance important journalism must be resolved, and this is an important challenge not only for our own industry, but for the democratic societies that we have grown accustomed to in our part of the world.

Debate between professor of journalism Jay Rosen and blogger Nicholas Carr, moderated by Tom Standage of the Economist.

Google launched Google+ to challenge competitors like Facebook and Twitter yesterday, and it’s already fully booked, accepting members only by invitation.

Read about it in Digi, Reuters or the Google blog.

Den svenske avisen Norran.se drøfter redaksjonens arbeidsliste og arbeidet med sakene med leserne på avisens nettsted.

Saken er omtalt i nettavisen til det britiske journalistlaget journalism.co.uk.

Story of the change of rules published by Reuters.

Tidligere sjefredaktør Anders Gerdin i Schibsted-eide Aftonbladet og tidligere sjefredaktør

Otto Sjöberg i konkurrenten Expressen, står tiltalt for å ha latt sine aviser ta inn annonser for utenlandske lotterier. Som i Norge, har statens lotteri enerett til lotterivirksomhet i Sverige, og beskytter sin enerett med et forbud mot annonsering.

Kulturdepartementet inviterer til en høring om å endre Åndsverksloven, med sikte på å klargjøre gjeldende rett på området, og legge et grunnlag for bedre beskyttelse for åndsverk i den digitale verden.

Du finner Kulturdepartementets 93 siders høringsnotat her.

Den svenske avisen Dagens Samhälle øker opplaget for første gang på sju år, med 532 årseksemplarer. Sjefredaktør Mats Edman tror det kommer av at avisen har begynt å ta betalt for alt redaksjonelt innhold. Du finner mer om saken i Dagens Media og i Journalisten.

As more and more Americans close their phone number to telephone marketing, New York Times has developed new channels for selling subscriptions, according to Poynter.

You may get valuable insights here.

På årsmøtet i Landslaget for lokalaviser, varslet kulturminister Anniken Huitfeldt at hun innen utgangen av mai, vil legge fram forslag til endring av åndsverksloven. Omtalt i Digi, som bl a har intervjuet Gisle Hannemyr.

Paris based Frédéric Filloux of the French ePresse consortium, reflects on what lessons there are to be learned from the news coverage of the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, in the British newspaper The Guardian.

Unable to create a sustainable business model arount it’s local news sites for Cardiff, Leeds and Edinburgh, The Guardian has stopped it’s local news project, according to mediabriefing.co.uk.

The desicion has created furor in the tree cities, with a possible initiative to relaunch the local news blogs.