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by nillium 6y ago
Shameless plug, but this is something we are working on right now. Social media is a terrible medium for news. Aside from the ability for anyone to post anything, which can easily lead to misinformation, it also sets up the absolute worst
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by nillium 6y ago
This has been our working hypothesis; we're building tools for newsrooms to syndicate the piecemeal updates of breaking stories throughout the day, for people who dont want to commit to long articles or videos. https://blog.
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by nillium 6y ago
Advertisers do not directly care about real names. What matters is journalistic integrity. We are in a time when reporters are consistently hammered for quoting anonymous sources.
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by nillium 6y ago
How is this not theft? Journalism is expensive. Of course, there are other business models (full disclosure, we're building one too: https://blog.nillium.com/what-can-napster-teach-local-news/ ) but circumventing
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The (News) Reporting Management System(blog.nillium.com)
3 points by nillium 6y ago|0 comments
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by nillium 6y ago
Because it isn't full articles -- just updates as they happen coming straight from the newsroom, more like tweets. It's not to say that people can't plagiarize, but it wouldn't be as easy or make as much sense as just c
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by nillium 6y ago
We're working on another way for disseminating news. It might make plagiarism a little more difficult, while also working a little better for our audience: https://blog.nillium.com/what-can-napster-teach-local-news&#x
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by nillium 6y ago
In reality, the reason why these have failed in the past is human psychology. Think about this with something other than news -- we all have $800 smartphones, but stare at the app store thinking, "hmm...do I really want to spend 99 CE
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by nillium 7y ago
Just to hijack this comment for a moment -- we're a startup looking to make local news more profitable and sustainable -- and hopefully reaching a new audience that might not watch local TV news or subscribe to their local newspaper. I
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by nillium 7y ago
If there are any journalists/news directors/managers on this thread, Nillium is building a system to manage reporting information/logistics for newsrooms. Basically everything for a story up to the point its ready for a CMS.
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by nillium 7y ago
Can you email me? I'd love to chat. jared at nillium dot com
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by nillium 7y ago
I'm a former TV news producer, looking to build a hybrid consulting/SaaS solution for the news industry. There are lots of small-midsize newsrooms who could be operating far more efficiently, but just do not have the tools. I fee
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by nillium 8y ago
OP here. Just trying to get some basic information about how people ACTUALLY want their news/consume it, really to validate an idea for a startup.
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How do you get your news?(journali.sm)
2 points by nillium 8y ago|1 comments
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by nillium 8y ago
Curious, as someone who is in the early stages of planning a B2B SaaS company -- can you talk any more to that? How do you get the clients without a product to show them?