When The New York Times and New York University announced last week that they would collaborate on a news site covering the East Village neighborhood, it got me thinking: Beyond Manhattan, what could this mean for the future of journalism education?
While it’s true that this isn’t the first pro-academic partnership — even the Times already [...]

Tom Curley, president and chief executive of The Associated Press, was in China last week for a government-sponsored media summit, where he compared digital content to NCAA basketball and explained the AP’s plans to build revenue online. But Curley was far more revealing when he spoke without a prepared text on October 6 at the [...]

We all know that The New York Times and other papers have been thinking hard about finding ways to charge readers for the news on their web sites, and there’s evidence that the decision-making process is moving along. Bloomberg has reported that a survey of print subscribers included this sentence:
The New York Times website, nytimes.com, [...]

Despite the fact that Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson’s latest book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, wasn’t released until this week, it has still managed to generate much pre-publication discussion about the future of the digital economy. Anderson found himself enmeshed in a pre-publication plagiarism scandal two weeks ago when the Virginia Quarterly Review [...]

It’s happening. Yesterday we revealed Steve Brill’s latest moves toward charging readers of newspaper websites, and separately, Philadelphia Inquirer publisher Brian Tierney said he would erect an online pay wall by the end of the year. Those developments followed similar statements by executives of Hearst Corp. and MediaNews Group, among other newspaper companies.
As these paid-content [...]

I gave a talk to a high school in Toledo on Friday, which gave me a chance to do some ad hoc focus-grouping of how teenagers engage with media. (To put the demographics in perspective, this is a private school that, beyond some scholarship kids, is mostly upper-middle class and up.) We covered a lot [...]

Alan Mutter is a former journalist-turned-entrepreneur who writes an excellent blog called Reflections of a Newsosaur, where he takes on various aspects of the newspaper industry from time to time. One of his recent posts, however, tries to make a point about the validity — or necessity — of charging for content online by using [...]

Must-reading for anyone keeping up with the resurgent meme of paid content is Steve Brill’s “secret” memo, published today on Romenesko, that offers his plan to save The New York Times by putting it on the path toward paid web content.
Though it sometimes reads like Lee Abrams with a spell-checker (How to charge for content? [...]

— Jack Lail has a few brief videos from an ONA Nashville conference on comments and using social media as journalists.
— It’s a week old, but this Wall Street Journal article details what happens when a web site decides to give its audience the choice to turn off ads.
— Chris Anderson gives a preview of [...]

Jeff Jarvis’ new book, What Would Google Do? is available in three formats: hardcover ($13.39 via third-party on Amazon), a Kindle edition ($14.84), and — and here’s the new bit — a 23-minute video. It’s Jeff talking at the camera, apparently unscripted, summing up the messages of his book.
In other words, it’s like a long [...]

— The economics of free: When Monty Python put some of their videos on YouTube recently, “their DVDs also quickly climbed to No. 2 on Amazon’s Movies & TV bestsellers list, with increased sales of 23,000 percent,” YouTube reports. As Merlin Mann puts it:
It’s stunning to me how much opportunity there is in giving [things!] [...]

— FT.com rebrands and reemphasizes the Financial Times name over the abbreviation/URL. A good sign recognizing the continuing power of the old print brand.
— I like Tim Windsor’s plan to revive a struggling daily: a mix of formats, including a free daily tab, a magazine-y weekly, and a family of niche web sites. Might work; [...]