Farai Chideya on new business models for journalism

Let's all attend the talk on Wednesday, November 19, Noon.

 

School of Journalism seminar with Farai Chideya on new business models for journalism

Farai Chideya will discuss new ways that news media outlets are funding journalism, and ways in which digital and pop-culture media are reshaping what we consider journalism. For example:

“Vice” was a skate magazine that became a multi-media empire doing a foreign-affairs show on HBO.

Twitter hired the former head of NPR, Vivian Schiller, to run its news division. She believes Twitter is integral to news yet says, “[W]e don’t have any reporters, and we don’t have any editors, and we’re never going to have those.”

Buzzfeed gets a $50 million investment, and its revenue stream is based partly on controversial “native” advertising, an evolution of the “advertorial.”

Public radio, newspapers, and network broadcasts are scrambling to adapt to a world with new competitors, many of which repackage and monetize the content they paid to report. How do journalists and journalism educators stay abreast of changes in media models, and also teach students how to make wise choices about their careers given the tensions between revenue-generation and editorial mission?

Location: Belo Center for New Media, Room 3.206