Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. February 11, 2013.
In America’s embattled newspaper industry, some business innovations are showing clear signs of success, according to the report. While many of these are occurring on the digital side, some papers are generating new print revenue-through circulation gains, niche products and even sales reorganization. [Note: contains copyrighted material].
http://www.journalism.org/sites/journalism.org/files/NEWSPAPERREVENUEIDEAS.pdf [PDF format, 35 pages].
Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism. March 5, 2012.
The search for a new revenue model to revive the newspaper industry is making only halting progress, but some individual newspapers are faring much better than the industry overall and may provide signs of a path forward. The study finds that the papers studied are losing seven dollars in print advertising for every one dollar they are gaining in new digital revenue, a ratio that shows the pace at which newspapers are shrinking. [Note: contains copyrighted material].
http://www.journalism.org/sites/journalism.org/files/SEARCHFORNEWREVENUEMODEL.pdf [PDF format, 28 pages].
Harvard Kennedy School. January 2012.
According to the report, in today’s world, open data leveraged by networks is the fuel that powers important decisions at each level of society, from government, to business, to community, to households, but it is also a product of our every activity at every level of our existence. Channeling the power of this open data and the network effect can help fight government corruption, improve accountability and enhance government services, change the default setting of government to open, transparent and participatory, create new models of journalism to separate signal from noise to provide meaningful insights, and launch multi-billion dollar businesses based on public sector data. Technology enables the disruption of institutions that was structurally not even possible before. [Note: contains copyrighted material].
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/publications/papers/discussion_papers/d70_kundra.pdf [PDF format, 21 pages].
