2. Newest Journalism Trends
• Explosion of Digital News Startups
• Media Entrepreneurship - all-time high
• Investor $$ > Scaling up
• Legacy Media > New Initiatives
• New Models of Journalism
• Metro Dailies in Trouble
3. Disruptive Innovation
Driven by Jobs to Be Done
• People don’t look for products to buy
• They live their lives, encounter problems,
and look for solutions
• They’ll hire a product or service to solve it
4. Who saw media jobs to be done?
• Craigslist – classified ads
• Google – search and ads
• Facebook – social connections, referrals
• Twitter – social sharing
• YouTube – video
• Flickr, Instagram – photo sharing
• Sirius – satellite radio
• Medium – publishing platform
5. Who’s Re-inventing News Today?
• Individuals – pro-am journalists
• Single topic experts
• Tech bloggers
• Advocacy groups
• Silicon Valley engineers
• Venture capitalists
17. Evolving Local News Ecosystem
Point of view + Deep journalistic DNA
= New Value Proposition
• ClearHealthCosts.com – advocating for health
transparency
• The Notebook/ Catalyst –for good public schools.
• PlanPhilly/ Urban Milwaukee –for the built
environment.
37. Media Investing
Infusion of funds from tech world = different
approaches to journalism
• VICE - $500 Million
• First Look Media - $250M
• Washington Post/ Jeff Bezos - $250M
• Buzzfeed - $50M
• Vox Media - $80M
• Medium - $57M
38. Scaling up – Global Expansion
• Huff Post: 15 countries
• VICE: 35 overseas bureaus
• BuzzFeed: new foreign editor expanding to
Mumbai, Mexico City, Berlin and Tokyo.
• Quartz: business reporters in London,
Bangkok, Hong Kong. Journalists > 19
languages.
40. Media Jobs > Move to Digital
• US newspapers lost 18,000 jobs since 2006
• New digital startups:
– Adding jobs
– High-profile hires
• Ezra Klein – from WashPost to Vox
• Katie Couric –from CBS to Yahoo
• Bill Keller – from NYTimes to The Marshall Project
• Jim Roberts – from NYTimes to Mashable
– Attracting investors
– Scaling internationally
41. Journalism & Engineering
• Engineers solve problems
• Journalist report on them
• Very different value, cultures,
revenue
• Increasingly occupying the same
space.
42. Next Front: Editorial Decisions
• Facebook experiment
manipulated the news
feeds of 700,000 users
to study “emotional
contagion through
social networks.”
• If they can make you
happy, can they also
make you vote?
• Twitter increasingly
confronted with
editorial decisions:
banned retweets of
James Foley beheading .
• No editorial training,
experience
44. SMALLER AND SMALLER PIECES
BUILDING
BIGGER NEWS ECOSYSTEMS
Media Entrepreneurship:
All-Time High
45. Questions:
• Do new media startups replace old media?
• Does legacy media need to survive?
• How do traditional media outlets sustain their
operations?
• How can you support journalism
entrepreneurship?
• Is dispassionate, “objective” journalism better
than mission-driven, soft-advocacy news?