Author: Barbara Iverson

• The Bottom Line- How Journalism Online will Charge for News

  Business models, Economics, micro-payments

• Chicagotalks.org Welcomes Citizen Journalists as Chitowndailynews Folds

  disruptive tech

• Twitter to add money making features – Enterprise Applications – ComputerworldUK

  disruptive tech

• Gapers Block: Merge – Chi-Town Daily News Folds – broke the news about the online news site Chitowndailynews.com, 2007 winner of Knight news challenge grant ($340,000) and its current economic…

  Future of News

• Beck Watch: Don’t Advertise with Ideologues

  Politics in Media Matters

• Twitter will add dashboard features to make for “monetization.”

  Future of News

• Aldermen Dispute Need for South Side Wal-Mart

  disruptive tech

• It’s coming down to a battle for each aldermanic vote in a fight over the addition of the first Wal-Mart on the South Side. A group of local ministers demanded attention at city hall this week in…

  Future of News

• Aldermen Make Financial Pledge, Taxpayers Could Pay for Olympics

  disruptive tech

• The Chicago City Council on Wednesday unanimously voted for a measure that saddles taxpayers with the bill if the 2016 Olympic Games lose money. The law authorizes Mayor Richard Daley to sign off…

  Future of News