Author: Barbara Iverson

• My student and mentee, Blair Mishleau is just back from London, and getting ready for a summer inter

  Future of News

• How journalists will curate the web

  disruptive tech

• From Storify, to Storyful, Tumblr and iPhone only, Color, tools that let a clever or opinionated, or journalistically inclined individual “curate” the firehose of news we all get from the Web are coming online. Use a blog, first, to get smart about a subject and to make yourself an expert in an area. This is the sedentary version of building a beat. You don’t hit the pavement and coffee shops, you virtually explore. So, you know who to follow on Twitter, and you’ve set up a couple of “lists” and perhaps you use FriendFeed, and Facebook. What is the next step? Try out a curating agent that let’s you easily pull the little tidbits, tweets, and strands of information together into a news feed. Now you can build an audience, and maybe even charge for your insights.

  Future of News
• disruptive tech

• http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/VideoPlayerMain.swf (via Summify – The Really Smart Phone – WSJ.com) MIT

  Future of News

• Fortune Publisher Agrees With Me About Death of Broadcast | Bob Garfield – Advertising Age

  disruptive tech

• Broadcasters are caught in a cost/price squeeze. TV’s declining economy is now reflected by a buyers’ market in the medium. TV can grow no more because its audience is near the saturation point. The rate structure is threatened because the audience is getting choosier. A growing number of sponsors question the value of TV advertising. If that all sounds familiar, well, no wonder. These are articles of faith among those who conquered their fear, denial, blind faith and desperate attachments to the status quo at last to face the reality of the gathering Chaos Scenario.

  Future of News
• disruptive tech

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtEvcXkxio0 The news the way we *should* hear it — as a set of

  Future of News

• NewspaperTurnaround.Com | Saving journalism as a business model

  Future of News