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Newspapers need to capitalize on scarcity
Scarcity will drive the news organizations of the future and help them differentiate themselves from all the competition, says Nic Brisbourne, a partner at a European venture capital firm in a post on paidContent.org.
Newspapers, he says, have spent the last few decades enjoying a virtual monopoly on information and advertising distribution, but that monopoly has [...]
Posted in Miscellany Also tagged Chris Anderson, free, Jeff Jarvis, journalism, newspaper business models, newspapers, Nic Brisbourne Comments closed
Google as the news industry’s middle man
In the grand scheme of things, the Internet was supposed to directly connect people — buyers and sellers, readers and writers, etc. — and eliminate the middle man. In reality, the middle man is more important than ever, and the biggest middle man of them all is Google, argues Nicholas Carr.
Posted in New Media Also tagged google, Google News, journalism, Matthew Ingram, middle man, New Media, news, Nicholas Carr, Nieman Journalism Lab, Rough Type, syndication Comments closed
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