Editor with BBC News leaves for NowPublic
Rachel Nixon, deputy world editor with BBCNews.com, is to join Canada-based ‘participatory news network’ NowPublic as its global news director, according to a press release posted on Alfred Hermida’s...
View ArticleReadWriteWeb: How a baseball iPhone app could create a new media model
RWW looks at MLB.com’s iPhone app, which has just added a feature to stream live video. At $10, fans of the sport are downloading the app to gain access to stats and data – a new revenue stream for...
View ArticleJon Bernstein on hyperlocal: Five steps to kick-start the local news revolution
The strength of hyperlocal is also its weakness – disparate projects in far-flung places. But here’s the thing. What works in KW1 – the business model, the editorial proposition – is likely to work...
View ArticleJon Bernstein: What if the business model for news ain’t broke?
In what may feel like a twist of logic too far, there are a growing number of non-media companies who are adopting the Fourth Estate’s digital business model. That’s the ad-funded, free-to-the-consumer...
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