All entries tagged: Bill Mitchell
This Week in Review: The New York Times’ paywall plans, and what’s behind MediaNews’ bankruptcy
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s news about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh]
The Times’ paywall proposal: No question about media and journalism’s biggest story this week: The New York Times announced it plans to begin charging readers for access to its website in 2011. Here’s [...]
Chicago’s L3C newsroom
For those keeping track of such things, take note: Journalism is about to get its first low-profit, limited liability corporation company, or L3C.
The new Chicago News Cooperative, unveiled on Thursday by former Chicago Tribune managing editor Jim O’Shea, will begin life as a nonprofit, but will change over to an L3C after Jan. 1, when [...]
Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good
NYU professor and Internet thinker Clay Shirky gave a talk Tuesday at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, our friends just on the other side of Harvard Square. His subject was the future of accountability journalism in a world of declining newspapers. Even for those of us familiar with his ideas, [...]
