[MGP-Forum Announce] Is it better to build, not buy, metro news organization?

[steve at coanews.org]

I think building new community news organizations is usually the way  
to go, but it
depends on the situation.  But I think it is important that they be non-profit
incorporated, as we have seen what has happened to for-profit  
alternative daily
newspapers - they have been bought up by one corporation, and in many  
cases that
corporation has removed the unprofitable local content that was once  
available.

Being non-profit also means that one person or group of people won't  
be creating a
community website in order to create a golden egg for later in life =  
selling out when
the time is right.

Sustainable long term community media should be non-profit and independent.

-I do still respect community media projects that are for-profit (I  
think coastsider.com
falls in this category), but I do not think it is the long term  
solution to our
privatized media system.

Just my two cents,
Steve

Quoting Bill Densmore <densmore at densmoreassociates.com>:

>
> Doing some catching up, we just came across MGP2006 alum Barry   
> Parr's Oct. 12, 2006, blog posting about the future of the Los   
> Angeles times. Parr, the Jupiter Research analyst who also is a   
> pioneer local online news community operator with Coastsider.com,   
> suggests it is now better to build, not buy, a metropolitan news   
> organization. Is he right?
>
> See:
> http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/parr/archives/2006/10/dismantling_the.html
>
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