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How Can I Make You Pay for This Post?

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The content market is no longer about control, but collaboration, about equal exchange. Making Paying for Content More Personal. The longer traditional media thinks in terms of how they can make their customers do things, the closer they are to extinction. Related posts: Information Also Wants to Be Expensive.

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Worried That Journalist Robots Will Replace You? Say “I”

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The way forward for journalists is not commodity content but uniquely personal content. That doesn’t mean journalism shouldn’t be conversational or personal. As Harbert argues, what gives the journalist’s work true value is the human, personal perspective. Without the I , journalism is just an exchange of data.

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Dialogue vs. Monologue: Six New-Media Principles, No. 1

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It is no longer a one-way speech, but a two-way exchange. We tend to forget that a conversation is not simply one person talking, then the other. As a result, the nature of journalistic discourse is transforming. As I say, all this is old hat for anyone even slightly familiar with new media. But that’s the challenge.

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Wine, Roses, and Oil: PR and the Truth

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In his career, as in his personal life, he papers over the ugly truth until it’s too late. Watching the exchange, it’s hard not to think of British Petroleum’s disastrous handling of the Gulf oil spill. It’s no coincidence that Jack Lemon’s character works in public relations.

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5 Things I Learned from Self-Publishing

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If you pay a small but measurable amount for my book, it makes for a more meaningful exchange. I’d be the first person to suggest that if you have the slightest interest in self-publishing, you should do it. Second, it somehow feels more genuine to charge for it. Giving it away just wouldn’t feel the same. It’s really not that hard.

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Start-Up Briefing Media Ltd. Blends Old with New

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We plan to offer a lot of value for free but will exchange value-add services for customer demographics. Will that person typically create content as well, or just curate and commission it? Is there a significant element of personalization or social input in the technology? These positions are key hires in each vertical.

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