JEEcamp 2009: New business models and local democracy

May 10, 2009 in Journalism
Tags: advertising, andy dickinson, business models, council newspapers, jeecamp, joanna geary, john thompson, Journalism, journalism.co.uk, local democracy, paul bradshaw

The final session of JEEcamp saw randomly selected panels from a list of attendees discuss crowdsourced questions, with the first being chaired by Joanna Geary, a web development editor at the Times.

New business models
John Thompson, founder of Journalism.co.uk, discussed the changing nature of journalism as traditional business models evolve and publishers struggle to keep up.
“I [...]

JEEcamp 2009: Hyper-local news and social media networking

May 10, 2009 in Journalism
Tags: advertising, business models, documentally, hyper local, james fryer, james hatts, jeecamp, journalissm, london se1, networking, our man inside, social media, soglos, sue greenwood, sweeble, twitter

After Kyle MacRae’s JEECamp keynote speech there were several breakout sessions on community management, new business models and tips for finding funding.  However, the main recurring theme was how the digital age has changed the nature of local media – with regional newspapers under threat it seems hyper-local projects are the great new hopes.
Hyper-local News
James [...]