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

[Jeff Jarvis]

Allow me to point you to a story I wrote about a net-only newspaper in
Germany, Netzeitung, that is profitable.
http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/netzeitung/

On 10/27/06, steve at coanews.org <steve at coanews.org> wrote:
> 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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