[...] Local il y a plus d’un an, Jim Schachter, en charge du développement numérique du quotidien, expliquait son plan au Nieman Lab: créer une maquette et des outils faciles à distribuer sous forme de licence à des communautés [...]

[...] following is an article from Harvard’s Neiman Journalism Lab—which is self-described as a “collaborative [...]

[...] une expérience pour le New York Times, comme l’expliquait Zach Seward du Nieman Lab au moment de son lancement en mars dernier. Jim Schachter, en charge des initiatives en ligne du New York Times, disait alors qu’ils [...]

[...] Sure, but for making money off of it? ‘Cause the Times [...]

[...] hill and New Jersey residents to create newsworthy and relevant topics. If it’s true that The Times is indeed trialing these sites to build a software platform for local bloggers, I think this is a great idea – in theory. They are [...]

[...] following is an article from Harvard’s Neiman Journalism Lab—which is self-described as a “collaborative [...]

[...] NYT wants to build and spread a platform for local journalism; sees business model in ‘placeblogos… "It turns out the Times’ ambitions in this field are bigger — and, in another sense, smaller — than they might appear from the two sites that debuted on Monday with a full-time reporter at the helm of each." (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites participatory journalism hyperlocal local citizenmedia nyt) [...]

It gives big advertisers to make one buy and get into hyperlocal spaces both on the web and in print.
If they can figure out the easy way for local business to make the advertising buy, a large previously underserved market is brought into the game.

[...] Jim Schachter, editor for digital initiatives at The New York Times, gives an interview to the Nieman Labs Blog.  He makes clear there is an experimental aspect to this. “Schachter admitted, “We don’t [...]

http://scoopingthenews.blogspot.com/2009/03/seattle-p-i-to-go-web-only-in-matter-of.html

[...] Full story at this link… [...]

[...] NYT wants to build and spread a platform for local journalism; sees business model in ‘placeblogos…- Nieman Journalism Lab- 3/5/09 The New York Times’ incubator project in hyper-local blogging, “The Local,” will never make money. And this isn’t some fatalistic prediction by Nieman’s Harvard Journalism boys, it’s straight from the mouth of Jim Schachter, the editor of digital initiatives at The Times. Yet another case of lots of content and no one to buy it. [...]

We’re doing this to figure out if we have something to contribute to the hyperlocal ecosystem. With all of The Times’s ambitions (and, I don’t think it’s grandiose to say, responsibilities) we’re not going to be able to work in this space if we can’t figure out a way to make it economically viable. If readers and authors and communities conclude that we have something to contribute, we’ll survive in hyperlocal. If not, we’ll have learned a lot. — Jim

[...] New Jersey towns. Jim Schachter, the Times’s editor for “digital initiatives,” tells the Nieman Journalism Lab that the site will never make money on its own: If every single person who lives in Fort Greene, [...]