Ebook: Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News

Technology has disrupted the news industry--its relationships, forms, and business models--but also provides no end of opportunities for improving, expanding, reimagining, and sustaining journalism.;Introduction: New relationships, forms, and models for news -- Part 1: Relationships. No mas mass media -- Content vs. service -- News as platform -- Ecosystems and networks -- Engagement, collaboration, and membership -- Journalist as organizer, advocate, and educator -- Part 2: Forms. The article is dead-Long live the article -- Process over product: Adding value to the flow of news -- Curation -- Data as news -- Mobile=local=me: Context over content -- Reinventing TV news -- Untapped technologies -- Part 3: Models. The story so far -- Digital first--What then? -- Efficiency: The final cut -- Beat businesses as building blocks of news ecosystems -- Business ecosystems -- Advertising, the myth of mass media, and the relationship strategy -- Native advertising: Fiend or foe? -- Paywalls -- Patronage -- The pricing paradox of information -- The link economy and creditright -- Metrics -- Capital: Investment in the future -- Afterword: A note on journalism education.