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Newspapers need to work with aggregators

Started by mathewi · 10 months ago

Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 has a great post about how newspapers can work with aggregators and the distributed ecosystem of the Web, instead of just moaning about how Google and Yahoo are stealing their business, as Tribune owner Sam Zell and others like to do from time to time. Scott nails it ... Continue reading »

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  • Mat

    2 years ago

    Yes, but I just don't see this scaling across all professional content producers.

    While this strategy can work for a select few (yourself, Scott, a handful of others) I'm not sure this is a viable strategy for budding professional journalists entering the market.
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  • Mathew

    2 years ago

    Thanks for the comment, Mat -- but I wasn't so much talking about using that type of strategy for individuals (although I think it can work for some, as you point out). I think the point was that newspapers as a whole should be doing this.
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  • Mat

    2 years ago

    Do you think that newspapers, or more broadly, large new organizations will continue to flourish? What will happen to individual, professional media creators in a future where large media orgs wield far less power, influence (and ability to pay)? That's what I'm grappling with. I've not seen a model that deals with the future reality of professional journalism yet. It's almost an emperor-has-no-clothes situation... we all see it coming, but no one knows what to do about it....
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