Comments on: Announcing the next Lab Book Club: “All the News That’s Fit to Sell”

By: St. Louis Beacon: How startups can provide context and analysis online » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:59:33 +0000

[...] Scott Lewis of Voice of San Diego, Brian Storm of MediaStorm, and more. (Not to mention a piece by Jay Hamilton, seen here recently in our last Book [...]

By: Lab Book Club: Journalists as goods » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:19:58 +0000

[...] Book Club (which has seeped into March). Here’s my discussion with Jay Hamilton, author of All the News That’s Fit to Sell, about Chapter 8. It’s one of the most interesting chapters in the book, dealing with [...]

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Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:23:53 +0000

[...] Journalism Lab Book Club selection, we turn to Tim Windsor. For more info on the Book Club, check here. [...]

By: Lab Book Club: Some online lessons from the (fairly) recent past » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:47:12 +0000

[...] with Jay Hamilton, author of this month’s Nieman Journalism Lab book club selection, All the News That’s Fit to Sell. Here we’re talking about Chapter 7, which focuses on what we can learn from the economics of [...]

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Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:37:02 +0000

[...] Nieman Journalism Lab Book Club selection, we turn to Tim Windsor. For more info on the Book Club, check here. [...]

By: Lab Book Club: The role of prestige and personality in selling the news » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:43:33 +0000

[...] James Hamilton. He’s the author of this month’s Nieman Journalism Lab Book Club selection, All the News That’s Fit to Sell. In this chapter, Jay talks about the role prestige and personality play in how media is produced [...]

By: Lab Book Club: The secret tie between Playboy and food stamps » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:49:14 +0000

[...] interview with James Hamilton, author of this month’s Nieman Journalism Lab Book Club selection, All the News That’s Fit to Sell. Our topic here is Chapter 5, which focuses on, among other things, how market forces influence [...]

By: Lab Book Club: The system’s to blame for the loss of hard news » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:59:14 +0000

[...] Book Club selection, we turn to Lisa Williams of Placeblogger fame. For more info on the Book Club, check here. [...]

By: Lab Book Club: How economic incentives shape the news » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:22:36 +0000

[...] with James Hamilton, author of this month’s Nieman Journalism Lab Book Club selection, All the News That’s Fit to Sell. Here we talk about Chapters 3 and 4, which use TV as a jumping-off point to discuss how economic [...]

By: Lab Book Club: Media bias is based on profit motive » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:09:53 +0000

[...] review of Chapter 3 of this month’s Nieman Journalism Lab Book Club selection. For more info, check here. [...]

By: Lab Book Club: How language and audience align on the nightly news » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:38:54 +0000

[...] review of Chapter 3 of this month’s Nieman Journalism Lab Book Club selection. For more info, check here. [...]

By: Lab Book Club: Why “rational ignorance” keeps people from reading your amazing story » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:53:14 +0000

[...] with Jay Hamilton, author of this month’s Nieman Journalism Lab Book Club selection, All the News That’s Fit to Sell. We’re talking about Chapter 2, which is where the meat of the book begins. Jay uses the [...]

By: Lab Book Club: How technology built objectivity into newspapers » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:42:06 +0000

[...] review of Chapter 2 of this month’s Nieman Journalism Lab Book Club selection. For more info, check here. [...]

By: Lab Book Club: Meet Jay Hamilton » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:45:25 +0000

[...] of my video interview with James Hamilton, the author of this month’s Book Club selection, All the News That’s Fit to Sell. We cover some basic introductions and the contents of Chapter 1. Some of the ideas he [...]

By: Lab Book Club: How responsive to economic stimuli are journalists? » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:28:15 +0000

[...] review of Chapter 1 of this month’s Nieman Journalism Lab Book Club selection. For more info, check here. [...]

By: Bill Mitchell

Bill Mitchell — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:21:35 +0000

Should make for an interesting discussion, Josh. Your post sent me down the hall to the Poynter library, where I checked out Jay’s book. in his Economic Theories of News chapter, he talks about four types of information demands first framed by Anthony Downs way back in 1957: “…that people desire information for four functions: consumption, production, entertainment, and voting.”

Wondering if those four still stand up as the main drivers — and what revenue models might work best for each (or their successors).