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> “What if, inside of Columbia Journalism School, we built Columbia Publishing School? And what if we did the same at Missouri, Northwestern, and Berkeley? What
by danharaj 11y ago
> “What if, inside of Columbia Journalism School, we built Columbia Publishing School? And what if we did the same at Missouri, Northwestern, and Berkeley? What if we decided to pipeline, train, and mentor future publishers, chief revenue officers, circulation directors, and sales chiefs alongside the future journalists we are teaching to code?”
I know this is specifically about the economics of content creation and media consumption, but talking about the rise of the Internet and the plurality of voices that previously couldn't be heard from the point of view of the owners who can't profit just seems incorrect. It's this kind of thinking that leads to stronger and stronger intellectual property rights, which is a euphemism for more and more restrictive information control.
Materially speaking the Internet has ushered in a golden age of media, but its revolution is being held back by outmoded economic relationships. This article is wondering how to reassert those relationships over the Internet instead of wondering what new relationships are possible.
- Animats 11y ago"What if we decided to pipeline, train, and mentor future publishers, chief revenue officers, circulation directors, and sales chiefs alongside the future journalists we are teaching to code?" You can probably get all of those you need from the layoffs at Yahoo and Aol. We've probably passed "peak people generating and selling crap content." Have we hit "peak advertising" yet?