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Jeff Jarvis on New Business Models for News 2009 from CUNY Grad School of Journalism on Vimeo.

In a nutshell, Jarvis proposes that new business models can emerge when existing players reduce their costs through outsourcing (and crowdsourcing), focus on the value they can add instead of just reporting what has already been reported — which he calls “do what you do best and link to the rest” — and use social media and related services such as Twitter and Facebook to create a distributed news network. (For more of his thoughts, check out this Slideshare presentation from 2008.) Many of his ideas are already being put to the test by the Journal-Register Co., which CEO John Paton has turned into a “digital first” news organization, as I described in a recent post.

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