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Clicker – Find TV On The Web

Andy Brudtkuhl — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:10:32 +0000

If you read this blog you know I’m a fan of a la carte TV. As it should – the web has facilitated this desire through piracy and the realization from the powers that be that the market is pushing this direction. Regardless – distribution of tv and media via the web is the future. And Clicker is here to organize all that chaos.

You see each network (much like newspapers, etc) refuse to distribute their content outside their realm of control so we now have a system of content silos. You can watch TV on Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, NBC.com, South Park Studios, etc, etc. This is a problem for consumers because we are used flipping on the TV and drilling through hundreds of channels with all the content in one place.

Clicker aims to solve that problem.

Clicker is the complete guide to Internet Television. Our mission is to make it simple for you to find the right show, right now.

As massive amounts of programming move online, consumers entering a world of infinite choices, all on-demand. Great! Finding the show you want to watch? Painful. Thousands of episodes from thousands of shows are housed on thousands of different sites, mixed among billions of random clips and videos.

Clicker catalogs all broadcast programming online, along with TV-quality Web originals, from these silos and delivers them in one seamless, organized experience so you can easily discover what’s available to watch (and what isn’t) online, where to watch it, and what’s worth watching.

Do you think Clicker will solve the problem? Want to try it out? We’re giving invites to the first five people that comment on this post!

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Another Reason For The Newspaper Demise

Andy Brudtkuhl — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:20:14 +0000

We all know that the newspaper industry doesn’t get the web. They don’t get the economics of the link economy – and likely never will. Further more they are completely ignoring the power of the long tail – and specifically the long tail of content.

Raise your hand if your local paper purges their archives online! *raises hand*

From The Gazette

The Des Moines Register

I reached both of these today (obviously prompting this post) after trying to get back to articles I had saved on Diigo to read later. I cannot think of a strategic reason for this – it’s not like they are charging money to access the archived content. It’s simply not there. They are missing out on huge amounts of search traffic and wasting a plethora of inbound links.

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Citizen Journalism, Explained

Andy Brudtkuhl — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:58:35 +0000

If you have been reading here you know I’m a huge fan of citizen journalism – or “hyperlocal”. I’ve built citizen journalism sites, done presentations on it, written blog posts on it, and we even had the Future of Journalism week here on GANB.

This is a great visual walkthrough of what citizen journalism is and how social media is changing the way news is being reported.

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Diane Rehm Show – Future of Journalism and Newspaper Industry

Andy Brudtkuhl — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:13:40 +0000

In fitting timing for our series on the Future of the Media/Journalism – yesterday Diane Rehm had a panel on her public radio show discussing “The Newspaper Industry and The Future of Journalism“.

This week’s bankruptcy filing by the Tribune Company is the latest sign of trouble for the news business. A panel joins guest host Katty Kay to discuss how the on-going recession is affecting the already struggling industry and what it could mean for how Americans get their news.

Guests include Lauren Rich Fine, Director of Research at ContentNext; Rem Rieder, Editor and Senior Vice President of the American Journalism Review; Jeff Jarvis, associate professor and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism; and Bruce Dold, Editorial Page Editor for the Chicago Tribune.

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Jon Stewart on The Newspaper Crisis

Andy Brudtkuhl — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:47:09 +0000

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Bill Densmore on Network Journalism

Andy Brudtkuhl — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:37:16 +0000

Bill Densmore is a “career journalist” that is working on many projects while serving as a Reynolds Fellow at University of Missouri. One of these projects is the Information Valet Project, which is:

The Information Valet Project is organizing an information-industry collaborative to build, own and operate a shared-user network layered upon the basic Internet.

In this video Bill discusses Network Journalism, revenue models, and Information Valets…

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Michael Libbie on The Future Of Journalism

Andy Brudtkuhl — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:33:22 +0000

Guest post from Michael Libbie

Michael Libbie is the President of Insight Advertising, Marketing, and Communications in Des Moines, IA. I asked Michael for a guest post because I know he’s just as passionate about the subject of the future of media as I am. Read his blog and follow him on Twitter.

Thanks Andy, for giving me this opportunity to voice an opinion on “The Future of Journalism” and you’re right. It is a passion of mine.

Much of what is wrong with “Journalism” today is the corporate takeover of the media. No longer are writers, photographers, editors and copy experts dedicated partners in disseminating “the news” they are simply pawns in the hands of corporate accountants. “Sales” runs the operation…not journalism. If you want proof just open any “news media” website. If, indeed, you can download it in decent time you’ll see that it is blazing with more ads than the classifieds. Monetizing news to this extent is simply making it a commodity and the public suffers.

The result of this bunker mentality is falling circulation/viewer-ship yet increased advertising costs to business. It is a recipe designed for failure.

So, what do we do?

Look to independently owned media that is responsible to their local area. Perfect examples are small town newspapers and radio stations. Here the media professionals are tied to the community and not the corporate culture. They mix with the citizens and are responsible for what they write and read.
Question existing media. Example: Last night on ABC-5 here in Des Moines they had an entire segment on “fluff news”. Four minutes of mindless drivel that belonged on Entertainment Tonight or C.O.P.S. Sorry but with all the activity in DSM they had to stoop to that junk?
Push the envelope and get creative on our own. The technology available today allows us to do “Indy” news and get a readership/viewer ratio much larger than existing media. And, that’s not hard. Consider that there are 425,000 households in the DSM DMA. The Des Moines Register daily edition subs are 144,000 and falling. We can do better.
Finally, do away with the political agenda. I don’t need local writers to “take a stand”. Give the data and the facts unless your agenda is an “agenda”.

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Brian Duffy – A Victim of Gannett Layoffs

Andy Brudtkuhl — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:59:37 +0000

The recent Gannett layoffs hit us home here in Des Moines and sparked our week long coverage on the future of the media and journalism. Brian Duffy drew the only cartoon left on the front pages of national newspapers for the last 25 years at the Des Moines Register. Until last week… Duffy reflects on his layoff, his future, and the future of journalism…

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Chris Snider – The Future of Journalism is Now

Andy Brudtkuhl — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:21:37 +0000

Guest post from Chris Snider
Chris Snider is the assistant managing editor for digital at The Des Moines Register and an adjunct professor of journalism at Drake University. He previously worked as editor of Juice magazine in Des Moines, news design director at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and as a designer at the Baltimore Sun. You can read his blog about how journalists can use new media at ChrisSniderDesign.com. I want to thank Chris for his excellent guest post. Now you can say all you want about my insights on the industry as an outsider, but Chris is in the industry and if you are too you need to listen to AND ACT ON his suggestions. Also be sure to follow his blog and twitter for future insight

I stumbled upon a great line the other day that made me think about how we do journalism online: “It’s not about doing print journalism online, but doing online journalism.” I couldn’t find the source, but I think it was Doug Fisher.

Journalism, to me, is about connecting people with information. It’s about giving people the information they want, when they want it, in the format they want.

It wasn’t too long ago that we had one shot a day at sharing that information – the daily newspaper. But suddenly we have the tools to connect with readers 24 hours a day. Suddenly the print newspaper can compete with the immediacy of television and radio. Suddenly it means something to be the first person to break a story again.

We have a wealth of ways to touch readers, a wealth of ways to connect with them. Obviously we can’t use them all, but we certainly can and should figure out which ones can help us in our core mission.

With that in mind, here’s my list of 8 things all journalists need to do to thrive in this super-connected world.

Start a blog. I don’t care if you blog is about your beat or your love of beets. Nothing will give you a better appreciation for what it takes to grow traffic and build community that trying to build a blog from scratch. I assure you, it’s not as easy as you may think.

Become a PR firm of one. Promote your own work. Now that you have learned a bit about building community, it’s time to apply that to what you do. If you break a big story on the Iowa football team, go to other sites about the Hawkeyes and post about the story (with a link to the story, of course). Join Facebook groups related to your beat and interact with others who have an interest in that topic. Keep you own personal e-mail list of people who will want to be the first to know when news happens on your beat.

Make sure your paper has an online distribution plan. We learned long ago that we can get more readers by taking the newspaper to them. We need to do the same with digital content. Find out where your potential readers are, and put your content there. That means Facebook applications, widgets, iPhone sites, actual participation in social networks, etc. And don’t just push your information in front of people. Stop, talk and listen a bit. You might hear something important.

Try out the new tools. You don’t have to try out every new tool that comes along promising to be the next big thing online. But you should try out at least some of them. See what’s working for others and give those a try. Here’s a good list to get you started: Twitter, Facebook, CoverItLive, Mogulus, Digg, Ning. Give them a try, and think about how they might help your beat.

Try out the new tools, Part 2. There’s no shortage of online tools that can actually help you do your job better and faster. RSS feeds. Google alerts. Jott. Pageflakes. Simplynoise. Search “online tools for journalists” on Google and you’ll find more.

Study the numbers. Don’t follow them over a cliff. But look closely at your traffic. There are some stats in there about what your readers need and want – and about what they don’t need or want. Which of your stories had the most visitors? Which got the most comments? Do you see any trends? Do something different (post at a different time, perhaps), and see if the numbers change. Then do it all again.

Have a healthy mix of journalism with a “big J” and with a “little j.” Do the journalism that readers WANT and that they NEED. Rob Curley calls this getting your steak but eating your broccoli, too. Readers may want to look at nightlife photos, but they need to know what the government is doing with their tax dollars.

Think about money. There used to be a hard and fast rule that the journalists didn’t mix with the advertising people. Might compromise our integrity. I think you can be a person of high integrity and still think about how the advertising department can best monetize your work. Break down those walls.

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A Plan to Save the Newspaper Industry

Andy Brudtkuhl — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:45:53 +0000

Pete, the CEO and Co-Founder of real estate website Trulia, recently posted on his blog his “11 Point Plan to Save the Newspaper Industry“.

His points are:

Focus on what you do best
Develop and nuture your talent
Socialize your content
Quit, partner or outsource everything else you can
Build a decent website
Re-focus and re-invent your sales teams
Link to your competitors
Engage, manage, and nurture the community
Build networks out of your assets
Constantly re-evaluate your print strategy
Radically cut costs

Read Pete’s “11 Point Plan to Save the Newspaper Industry“

Thanks to Chris Snider for sharing this post.

Catch up on GANB’s Future of Journalism/Media week here.

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