Thought #2 on the Chicago Media Future Conference: Let’s find a sustainable model for online journalism

June 14, 2009 in Journalism
Tags: Beachwood Reporter, Brad Flora, chicago, Chicago Media Future Conference, CMFC, Columbia College Chicago, Journalism, New York Times, newser, patrick spain, Steve Rhodes, Windy Citizen

Contrasting views were expressed on how to make sustainable and profitable news models online at the Chicago Media Future Conference in Chicago on June 13, 2009.
If newspapers disappear, will news-websites be able to take over? And what about local and hyper-local models? Will they eventually become a sustainable model for online journalism?

Thought #1 on the Chicago Media Future Conference: Why newspapers won’t disappear so quickly

June 14, 2009 in Journalism
Tags: Chicago Future Media Conference, CMFC, columbia, everyblock, gapers block, iPhone, Journalism, local, media, news, newser, newspaper, patrick spain, rich gordon

Will the New York Times disappear in 2011, as predicted by Newser CEO Patrick Spain? I’m not so sure. Online media is still trying to find out how to replicate the “single package” model that newspapers represent.