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AUDIO: Alan Mutter at N.E. Newspaper & Press Assn.

NATICK, Mass. -- Newspaper-industry consultant Alan Mutter, of San Francisco, provided a blunt warning about changes in the newspaper-industry advertising marketplace during an Oct. 6, 2011 presentation to the New England Newspaper & Press Association fall convention. Listen to audio of Mutter's presentation by clicking on the carat to the left of the bar below to launch a stream, or downloading an MP3 audio podcast for offline listening.

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: 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).

AUDIO: Charging for content: A discussion among editors at ASNE April 13

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A sober discussion about a hot topic -- should news organizations charge for online content -- played out April 13, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The occasion was the annual meeting of the American Society of News Editors. The title of a one-hour session: "Charging for Digital Content: Fix or Folly?" Moderator was James M. Brady, digital editorial consultant, Allbritton Communications, Great Falls, Va.; Merrill Brown, founder and Principal, MMB Media, LLC (and a consultant to Journalism Online LLC), New York; Kenneth J. Doctor, Affiliate Analyst, Outsell/Content Bridges, Burlingame, Calif.; and Walter E. Hussman Jr., President and CEO, WEHCO Media, Little Rock, Ark. Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to stream the audio (1 hour, 3 minutes, 25 seconds), or download an MP3 podcast  (15.22MB) for offline listening. 
 

AUDIO: Bill Grueskin: What's the value of news on the web?

Some U.S. news organizations will move to start blocking aggregators like Newser from pointing to their web sites, according to Bill Grueskin, who left a senior editing position at The Wall Street Journal to become a professor and academic-affairs dean at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In this Feb. 4, 2010, talk to the Midwest Newspaper Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, Grueskin outlines key changes in news resulting from web and mobile digital delivery. It's been atomized, measured, re-aggregated, socialized and democratized.

Grueskin calls Newser an example of a "pernicious, troubling trend," in which aggregators with a few editors scrape content from news-producing website, and using perceived legal interpretations of copyright "fair use," make money by putting advertisements around short snippets of that news.

Grueskin also says the Kindle device marketed by Amazon Inc. is a useful reading experience. But, he says, "the problem with Kindle is Amazon owns the relationship with the customer." Listen to his talk below, which begins a few minutes into the tape and runs about an hour with Q&A from an audience of about 125 Midwest publishers, editors and executives. Click on the carat to the left of the bar below to listen to thaudio of Grueskin's talk, or download an MP3 podcast for offline listening.

AUDIO: Morphing from non-profit to for-profit: ChiTown Daily News

 

Jeff Dougherty,  (see Media Giraffe profile) founder of the local online news community ChiTown Daily News, describes in a Sept. 19, 2009 interview with the Media Giraffe Project's Bill Densmore why ChiTown has gone dormant. Its staff plans to reconsititute as a for-profit public-affairs website and news organization.  To stream the audio of the interview, click on the carat to the left of the bar below, or you can download an MP3 podcast for offline listening. (Runtime: 7:35 minutes; 1.8 MB)  

AUDIO: Fall info meeting for Media Giraffe Project interns

Listen to this 48-minute segment of the fall Media Giraffe Project writing-intern informational meeting. Introduced by Media Giraffe Project Director Bill Densmore and Principal Investigator Prof. Norm Sims, and including profiles coordinator Liz Hawley, multimedia editor Nicole Belanger and book-project editor Sara Majka. About 10 students attended in the Campus Center.  Download an MP3 podcast for offline listing, or click on the arrow on the left of the bar below to launch an audio stream.