User contributed media
Who chooses to participate?
How do you get people to produce?
How does user generated content grow?
Key is volunteer base.
Economic model: importance of advertising.
Delivery systems
Online
Print
Presumption that people want PRINT.
Technical model
web 2.0
Software to bridge gap between web and print
Public versus privately owned newspapers
Research questions to be identified
Data needed: qualitative
Traffic to the website.
What kind of data is out there already?
Who owns it?
Motivation for contributing content
How frequently is content updated?
Examples
Huffington Post
Lakewood Observer
Economic Model
New delivery systems
Niche markets
Monetizing user generated content
Licensing software
Advertising
Sales/ Marketing
Reduce costs/ still distribute newspaper
Audience
Satisfying local need
Where is demand coming from for local sites?
Building an audience
Content
Copyright protection
Precision journalism
Phil Meyers
Appropriate mix of amateur and professional
Unbundling content
Development of niche markets
Content Producers
Decisions made for reader as to what is important.
Newspaper format.
Edited.
VERY local.
Ethical considerations
Networked journalism
Bill Keller
New York Times executive editor
Representative journalism
Leonard Witt
Professional journalists
Bloggers
Are blogs sustainable?
Who is reading a blog?
What is replacing hard news?
"news reinvented"
Volunteers