February 2012
5 posts
Profitable news - Jeff Jarvis →
The problem is that journalists don’t know shit about business. Culturally, they don’t want to. I often hear from journalists who are downright hostile to corporations and even capitalism not because they’re commies but because they believe they’re above it all (there is the root, I believe, of much of their cynicism about Google and other large technology companies). - Jeff Jarvis
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Dear Journalists,
Stop calling what you produce “content.” You do great journalism. The moment you reduce what you do to “content” is the moment you fall in with the business processes that have failed your profession.
Paper isn’t the issue. The Internet isn’t the problem. There is no golden business model and there won’t be until you stop reducing the work you do—...