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Greetings from not-so-freezing-anymore Helsinki. My name is Olli Sulopuisto (@osulop) and I’ll be your live-blogger for today’s event. Tanja Aitamurto will be delivering her opening speech in just a moment. Her reseach was funded by the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation. Today’s panelists are – as per the previous enty – Helene Auramo, Jyri Engeström, Mikael Pentikäinen, [...]

The Obama-effect of donating is happening in journalism. In Obama’s case, small donations from a big crowd made his campaign possible. In journalism, many small donations fund costly story projects.

“There is a short-term market failure of courage”, says Esther Dyson of EDventure Holdings.
“The role of the news is not so much anymore to “tell people stuff, but to facilitate conversation”, says Sue Gardner of Wikimedia.
“Charging for the printed word printed on a paper”, says Dean Singleton about the business models, the CEO of MediaNews Group.

Quotes from the FOCAS conference in Aspen, Colorado, discussing business models for journalism.

Would you pay to share publicly what kind of journalism you consume? Kachingle, a Mountain View, California-based start up, and some other similar initiatives believe so. This is how Kachingle works: A reader voluntarily agrees to pay five dollars a month to become a Kachingler, a user of Kachingle. For the five dollars, the reader [...]

How do you get your news? Jyri Engestrom gets his from Twitter, Facebook, and shared links, from people whose opinions he trusts. These new ways of sharing content in social media create a challenge for news organizations. In order to compete, they have to publish stories that are interesting enough not only to be read, [...]