This week’s show is a discussion primarily about the future of newspapers…and the Minneapolis StarTribune in specific.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
The Podcast
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“Discussed During the Show” Notes:
- Minneapolis StarTribune Guild workers take it upon themselves to figure out a new business model for the paper
- Posts on newspaper models: one on how to save the Strib by Tim Elliott and this one on newspapers need blog networks by Steve Borsch
- Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and author. His open source presentation discussing ideas around disruption, referred to by Steve during the podcast, is here
- Wall Street Journal article arguing in favor of paid subscriptions as a means of funding the newspaper business
- NYTimes: Blog standards (see Section B5 on this “Policy on Ethics in Journalism”) and their experiment with memetracking at BlogRunner
- Minnesota.com: a fairly basic directory service
- Fallon skimmer