Max Cutler

For my Intro­duc­tion to Law & Tech­nol­ogy class this semes­ter, I worked with two of my class­mates on a sur­vey of new busi­ness mod­els for jour­nal­ism and news orga­ni­za­tions. The results can be found on the web­site we have cre­ated, includ­ing a full recap and notes of the Knight Media con­fer­ence held at the Yale Law School in November.

We per­formed sur­vey research on eight of the most dis­cussed new busi­ness mod­els for news, although we tried not to pre­scribe any of them as “the” solu­tion. As count­less oth­ers have pointed out, there will not be any sin­gle solu­tion that will work for any or all news orga­ni­za­tions, so it is instead impor­tant to under­stand how each might con­tribute to a new news orga­ni­za­tion struc­ture. We hope to update the site peri­od­i­cally as events unfold in the indus­try, and will con­tinue to post to our Publish2 news­group as we come across rel­e­vant new content.

We hope our research and sum­maries are use­ful to inter­ested observers, espe­cially those who may not have been fol­low­ing the issues at hand as closely as we have. Feel free to give feed­back and let us know what you think.

Fol­low­ing are my notes from the “Jour­nal­ism and the New Media Ecol­ogy: Who will pay the mes­sen­gers?” con­fer­ence hosted by Yale Law School and the Yale Infor­ma­tion Soci­ety Project.

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Unfor­tu­nately there won’t be a Courant-related post today, as I’m in the process of refor­mat­ting and rein­stalling every­thing on my lap­top. Noth­ing ter­ri­ble has hap­pened, I just needed a clean devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment and decided it was worth a full wipe instead of try­ing to man­u­ally cleap up Window’s reg­istry and paths. This lap­top doesn’t have a DVD drive, so I’m going to try an install from a USB drive, or else seek an exter­nal drive tomor­row. I’m going to install a new-ish (post-beta) build of Win­dows 7, which appears to be sta­ble and has improved tablet func­tion­al­ity, which is a win for me (Thinkpad X61 tablet). I’ll make up for the off day with a post tomor­row on Arti­cles in Courant News.

This per­sonal blog has been a long time com­ing. I’ve toyed with doing such a blog in the past, but could never main­tain inter­est. Now that I’m involved in a num­ber of pub­lic ven­tures, I thought it would be appro­pri­ate to have a soap­box upon which I can talk about things in more depth than a 140-character tweet will allow. I hope you enjoy!

P.S. If any­one wants to help with a logo/header for this blog, I’d be eter­nally grateful.