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 [...]

Build It Up And Knock It Down

November 17, 2008 in Journalism
Tags: berkeley, bob calo, city, david leigh, guardian, investigative, Journalism, newspapers, paul bradshaw, propublica

This was my November post for the ‘Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists‘ blogring.
The question was ‘If you had a million dollars to save journalism, what would you do?‘
So $1,000,000 or £670,765.31.
I would spend it on investigative website which would perform journalism in the public interest. Very much taking its inspiration from ProPublica, albeit with [...]