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The Freedom Forum What's really happening with 'struggling' online news
"What's the future of media, new and old? What are all the rumblings about struggling online media about?"

Pundits and gossips and entrail-readers were excited in recent weeks, the jitters touched off by announcements of layoffs at Salon and NBC and CBS.com and by the near-death experience of the strange crime-news site APBNews.com, which dismissed its staff, then brought some back unpaid in an attempt to keep publishing.

Was all of this a watershed moment for new media? Was traditional journalism about to rise, Dracula-like, from its technologically dug grave?

"Not likely. If there is a central idea that conventional media have willfully failed to grasp, it's that the future of information belongs to Open Media. The meaningful distinction isn't Old vs. New, it's Open vs. Closed."

"Open Media aren't uninterested in profit; quite the opposite. Their advocates, understanding how new technologies operate, have simply perceived a radically different principle with which to make money � by sharing information rather than controlling it."

MediaCentral Newsweek, MSNBC launches site
"Newsweek.MSNBC.com went live early Sunday morning, executives at Newsweek, The Washington Post and MSNBC.com must have let out a deep sigh of relief at finally having inked a very complex, and perhaps unprecedented deal.

"This is probably the most ambitious editorial, promotional and business sharing deal that may have ever happened without one company buying another," said Newsweek.MSNBC.com's editor and GM Michael Rogers. "This is a different model than say a Time Warner/AOL deal. Here, we are able to create powerful synergies while retaining our independent voices. That seems like a pretty good deal to me.""

""Once you're on the web, there's a whole new set of competitors," he added.

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Editor and Publisher Weblogs: From Underground to Mainstream
"Weblogging by nature has been a solitary pursuit, and its practitioners are mostly independents. But as Gillmor and Cooper are showing us, the model can work on a corporate level � if news organizations are willing to be more free with their notion of what is acceptable content for their Web site.

Gillmor says eJournal is an experiment in what the Web experience can be. "We're still trying to figure out what it is," he says. "That's part of the fun." While the columnist is (obviously) at the center of the Weblog with what he writes, Gillmor sees it as facilitating a multi-way conversation between he and his readers, and readers and other readers. "

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...[T]he Web log reflects our own attempts to assimilate the glut of immaterial data loosed upon us by the "discovery" of the networked world. And there are surely lessons for us in the parallel. For just as the cabinet of wonders took centuries to evolve into the more orderly, logically crystalline museum, so it may be a while before the chaos of the Web submits to any very tidy scheme of organization.”

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