I still don’t have a lot to say about this week’s changes at TBD. But I know people who follow this blog are interested in business models for news and in the TBD experience.
So, in the spirit of TBD’s model of linking to other content, I will pass along links to other people’s analysis of the business aspects of what has happened here (I don’t agree with all of them; just passing them along):
- Added Feb. 28: Rick Robinson on Business Insider
- Added Feb. 27: David Kaplan of paidContent
- Added Feb. 26: Michael Boyd Clark
- Added Feb. 26: Jane Stevens of World Co.
- Added Feb. 26: Jonathan Weber of Bay Area Citizen
- Added Feb. 25: Mathew Ingram of GigaOm
- Added Feb. 25: Emily Bell of Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism
- Added Feb. 25: CJR Q&A with Jim Brady
- Added Feb. 25: Dan Conover
- Paul Farhi of the Washington Post
- Newsosaur blogger Alan Mutter
- Cory Bergman of Lost Remote
- Poynter’s Mallary Tenore
- Poynter’s Rick Edmonds
- Journal Register’s John Paton (responding to Edmonds, with comment from Edmonds)
- Mike Orren (a 2009 blog post, but he tweeted today that it was relevant to TBD developments)
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