
Privacy, personalization and payment
What will sustain journalism in service of democracy?
Because of the rise of the Internet and the financial challenges faced by legacy media organizations, that question tugs at those who write and produce the news.
Conferences, reports and columns run through the same checklist:
Advertising going digital and mobile and increasingly controlled by technology platforms like Google and Facebook, not by originators of news.
Older news consumers willing to pay higher subscriptions, but the millennial generation is not on board.
Events, digital-marketing services and transactions are adding revenue quickly, but are a small factor, compared with advertising and subscriptions.
Typically, the conferences, reports or columns have ended there — no action or answers to the challenge.
That’s starting to change. The NSA-Snowden disclosures, and advertisements which follow us across the Web, have quickened the public’s understanding of the possibilities — and dangers — of the global public network. It’s clear we are tracked, but we’re not sure why or by whom.
Bill Densmore, 2008–2009 RJI fellow and later RJI consultant, shared his research into this essential topic in this six-part series.
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In the new news ecosystem, getting paid requires asking, listening, personalizing, bundling
March 10, 2015
When it comes to getting paid, who are news organizations competing with, and what can they do about it? First answer: They aren’t competing with each other. They are competing with all of the other things consumers spend information-access dollars on.This is the sixth in a series of blog reports on the status of the news landscape and a challenge to create a new one. The series is authored by Bill Densmore, a 2008-2009 RJI Fellow and originator of the Information Valet Project. View the series here.
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Privacy, personalization and payment
For nearly a century, most people thought of privacy in terms of blocking yourself off from unwanted scrutiny. But networked technology has introduced a new meaning — the right, or ability, to negotiate the commercial value of one’s data profiles.
Privacy: The evolving meaning of a single word for our networked news and information economy
February 27, 2015 -
Privacy, personalization and payment
Banks do it. Airlines do it. Phone companies do it. Why shouldn’t news organizations do it, too? What they do is share users. And they do so because it’s convenient for their customers.
The opportunity for networks: Trust, antitrust and sharing users
February 19, 2015 -
Privacy, personalization and payment
It was a symbiotic relationship — mass-market advertising and local journalism. Now the two are heading for divorce. Is any reconciliation possible?
Is it time for the news industry to get smarter about advisortising?
February 12, 2015 -
Privacy, personalization and payment
Throughout several months of interviewing more than 85 journalists, educators, technologists, researchers, activists and citizens, it was easy to fall back on what journalists want or what the news media needs — or our ideas of what democracy needs.
Imagining the 21st-century personal news experience — and how to create it
February 3, 2015 -
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The future begins with P: Privacy, personalization and payment
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