New media? I’ve worked 38 years in the newspaper business

People like to frame a conflict in simple terms: black vs. white, old vs. new, etc.

I recently noted some flaws in a study that generated some encouraging results for “old media” (if you ignored all the troubling results). I also faulted how old media covered the study. So to the people who like to simplify, I suddenly became “new media.”

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Robert Niles says there is no new revenue model for journalism; I disagree

Robert Niles is one of the sharpest commentators about digital journalism and the business of journalism. So his tweet last night caught my eye:

Deal with it – There is no new revenue model for journalism.

He linked to his latest post at OJR: The Online Journalism Review. He makes a lot of excellent points, as I would expect, and I will review some of them later. But I believe he is wrong on his central point:

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