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I also think the future value of news is in the relationship to journalists and reporters. They need to become 'celebrities' to a certain degree. The Huffington
by cschwarm 17y ago
I also think the future value of news is in the relationship to journalists and reporters. They need to become 'celebrities' to a certain degree. The Huffington Post is a good example.
However, I think the transaction costs of crowd-sourcing articles are too high. People have better things to do then finding topics to fund. It already didn't work for open source projects.
My favorite solution is still the club model as described here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678801 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678801
- greyman 17y agoI would object against naming HuffPo as a good example. 1) They are not profitable. 2) Quite a few of their articles are just rewrites of other journalists work. They read article in other media, and then re-tell it in their own words. Which of course is much cheaper than to really report. So they are dependent on other media in their operation, and also the point 1) applies. p.s: I don't have anything personal against HP, I just think they didn't prove anything yet.
- cschwarm 17y agoI meant the Huffington Post is a good example to make/use 'celebrities' in their 'Featured Blog Posts' section.