International Law

What Content would you Pay for?

Some interesting thoughts the evolution of newspapers by John Temple, about seven minutes long.

The modern newspaper will see itself more of a curator than an originator off all news.

"I think the involving and bringing people in will be a very important part of whatever anything looks like, that this... that interactivity, that conversation, that inclusiveness, that... it's not us telling you, it's actually us working with you and trying to understand and answers your questions but you... the reader will be answering questions as well. I think we're in a much more participatory world. I actually think that that's better and we might have more information but we have to think of ourselves, maybe as more curators and moderators and not just as originators."

John Temple is the former editor of the Rocky Mountain News, the Denver newspaper that ceased publication in 2009. Under his editorship, beginning in 1998, the paper won four Pulitzer Prizes and numerous other awards for journalistic excellence.

Here is the transcript of John's talk about paying for content.

John is straight forward in describing the uncertainties facing skilled journalists, who will pay them and how they will get trained. It is a nice counter piece to Clay Shirky's recent discussion about paying for content.

Full post as published by Misleading Advertising Law on March 19, 2009 (boomark / email).