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AUDIO: ANDAC -- state newspaper associations' initiative

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- An ambitious plan to form a new company, aggregate content from newspapers who belong to U.S. state press associations, and then figure out how to track, control, use and sell that content was was detailed June 24 at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI).

Introduction of the American Newspaper Digital Access Corp. (ANDAC) concept was outlined in an hour-long presentation by Bill Monroe, retired director of the Iowa Newspaper Association, and Bob Kasabian, a consultant hired by publishers in Iowa, Kansas and Missouri to develop an ANDAC business plan.

This audio is excerpted from their presentation on Thurs., June 24, 2010 at RJI, which is part of the Missouri School of Journalism, before some 40 publishers, researchers and vendors. For more on the event, "From Blueprint to Building: Making the Market for Digital Information,"  .  Click on the carat of the bar below to launch streaming audio of the session (Monroe speaks first). If the bar is not visible, download an MP3 podcast of the session.  (1 hour, 36 minutes, 26MB)
 

AUDIO: What's the AP up to? Picht explains at RJI-Mizzou

Walking a fine line between the interests of its daily-newspaper owners and the rest of publishing, the world's largest news-gathering cooperative has unveiled AP Gateway. In this audio excerpt, Randy Picht of The Associated Press explains the new initiative, designed to build a data repository open to all content providers and help track -- and perhaps charge -- for digital content. Picht spoke at the June 24-25, 2010 event: "From Blueprint to Building: Making the Market for Digital Information," at the Missouri School of Journalism's Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Click on the carat of the bar below to launch the audio stream. If the bar isn't visible, download the MP3 podcast of this 32-minute presentation.

AUDIO: Blueprint/InfoTrust research options for RJI

Near the end of "From Blueprint to Build: Making the Market for Digital Information," convener Bill Densmore invited participants to advise on what scope of research might be usefully undertaken by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute to help with the build process. In this 25-minute audio podcast, you can listen to the replies. Click on the carat of the bar below to launch the audio stream, or if the bar is not showing, download the MP3 podcast for listening.

AUDIO: Martin Langeveld on the need for a price-method study

Martin Langeveld, executive vp of CircLabs Inc., explains in this two-minute clip why he thinks research into dynamic pricing methods is necessary. Langeveld spoke during the "From Blueprint to Building: Making the Market for Digital Information," symposium June 25, 2010 at the Missouri School of Journalism's Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.  Click on the carat of the bar below to launch the audio or, if the bar is now showing, download the MP3 podcast for listening.

AUDIO: Digital Publishing Alliance Update -- Roger Fidler (3 mins. 10 sec.)

In this three-minute audio excerpt from "Blueprint to Building: Making the Market for Digital Content," Roger Filder explains the activity of the Digital Publishing Alliance (DPA). Fidler is a researcher at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) focused on electronic tablet technologies. The DPA is an initiative with RJI which brings together publishers to discuss protocols and ideas for tablet content deployment.  Click on the carat of the bar below to launc the audio stream or, if the bar is not visible, download the MP3 podcast for listening.

AUDIO: Doug Anstaett on the origins of ANDAC

How did the American Newspaper Digital Access Corp. idea originate? Kansas Press Assocation Executive Director Doug Anstaett explains in this three-minute audio clip. He explains why newspapers need to collaborate and what has been the consequence of them not doing so. Anstaett commented during the event, "From Blueprint to Building: Making the Market for Digital Information," held June 23-25, 2010 at the Missouri School of Journalism's Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, in Columbia, Mo. Click on the carat of the bar below to launch the audio stream or if the bar is not visible download the MP3 podcast and listen.

AUDIO: What is CircLabs Corp. -- Martin Langeveld

The business of vendor CircLabs Inc. is explained in this six-minute excerpt by Executive VP Martin Langeveld. Langeveld participated in the symposium, "From Blueprint to Building: Making the Market for Digital Information," at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri on June 25, 2010. For more information go to the event home page.  To listen to Langeveld, click on the carat of the bar below to launch a stream. If the bar is not visible you can download the MP3 podcast for off-line listening.

AUDIO: Explaining the Information Trust Association idea

In this 22-minute audio podcast, Bill Densmore of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) explains the evolution of the Information Trust Association idea. Accompanying the audio is a slide deck which can be viewed at: http://www.newshare.com/ita.pdf Densmore spoke at RJI on June 24, 2010, during a conference entititled: "From Blueprint to Building: Making the Market for Digital Information." For details follow the links from http://www.infovalet.org . You can also download the MP3 podcast for offline listening, or click on the carat below, if visible, to launch the audio immediately.  

AUDIO: Five-minutes about InfoValet on WJR Detroit's Frank Beckman show

In this five-minute audio podcast, CircLabs Inc. co-founder and Information Valet Project director Bill Densmore talks with Frank Beckman, live on WJR-AM Detroit, about an idea for one-ID, one-account, one-bill access to web news information and about the Information Trust Association idea.

Beckman invited Densmore onto his morning talk program after reading a post on the Nieman Journalism Lab website by Martin Langeveld. The post suggested the news industry could "liberate content, skip negotiates and still get paid" by developing a dynamic pricing system for online content.  Click on the carat on the right of the bar below to launch streaming audio, or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening.

AUDIO: Amy Goodman on journalism and activism: "War is not the answer"

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. -- Paul Rapp introduces Amy Goodman, host of the Pacifica Foundation's "Democracy Now!" five-day-a-week news and commentary video broadcast, speaks to about 200 people on Friday, July 16, 2010 at the Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, Mass. Goodman's talk was a fund-raiser for low-power, community, non-profit radio station WBCR-LP in Great Barrington. Click on the carat on the left of the bar below to listen to streaming audio (1 hour, 24 minutes) or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening (20.1MB).