“Once the industry has been pared to its essence and its essentials, once we determine what matters most and needs protection, once we find the means to support that work, then journalism can grow again.”
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
“Nobody sells native advertising better than BuzzFeed, with an entire staff devoted to creating its trademark listicles and quizzes just for sponsors: “How To Rank Your Happiness By Jars Of Nutella®”
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
“A few people in a basement room take the best of that service and repackage it, freeze-drying it for print. Print becomes a promotional vehicle for the brand’s online services and a supplier of cash flow to subsidize research and development. That”
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
“Mobile isn’t just another content-delivery mechanism. Don’t try to be mobile first. Be user first. Context over content, that’s the lesson of mobile.”
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
“I’d like to see every news organization, large and small, newspaper and blog, sponsor FOIA clubs in their communities to get scores, hundreds, thousands of citizens helping to open up data.”
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
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