Local news organizations have always served their communities by keeping them informed and generating conversation. Why not make that conversation part of a business model by creating and monetizing events around local news? At Billy Penn, 84 percent of our revenue in 2015 came from events, and we expect that number to be similar in 2016.
Jim Brady
Read more: Local news isn’t dead. We just need to stop killing it. - Columbia Journalism Review
(Source: cjr.org)
Watching the Thunderdome team work so collaboratively was, to me, an example of how newsrooms have to operate to survive in the future. We need fewer egos, fewer divas, more collaboration and more stepping into the breach to help colleagues. All in all, the Thunderdome newsroom was the lowest maintenance newsroom I have ever managed.
Jim Brady, former Editor-in-Chief of Project Thunderdome (and former President of ONA’s Board of Directors) discusses the best parts of the project.
Read more: Take these lessons from the rubble of Thunderdome » Nieman Journalism Lab
(Source: niemanlab.org)
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