
American Pop - animation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEm6SQUMcyA
“People have gotten fired up and all that, but I think that’s what makes town halls fun,” said Perriello, a freshman who is among the most vulnerable Democrats in 2010. “I think that most of the time when we get out there, it’s a good chance for people to vent and offer their thoughts. It’s been good. I enjoy it, and people have a chance to speak their mind,” he said."
Old journalistic media - newspapers, broadcast TV and the like - are hurting. They're stuck with lumbering 19th and 20th century production and business models in a fast-moving, digitized 21st century world.
New Media - electronic means of mass communication including the Internet, mobile devices, text-messaging, electronic games, blogs and podcasting - have democratized and revolutionized journalism. Look no further than the phone-recorded images of protests in post-election Iran that stunned the world - and the Iranian government - this June.
But with journalistic tools in everyone's hands and everyone expecting to get news for free, the craft of journalism -- which historically has been sustained through economically viable newspapers and broadcast media -- is under assault. How can journalists earn a living? How can the organizations that employ them survive?
Here's the $1,000 challenge for CUNY undergraduate and graduate students in any discipline, a special competition that's part of the 2009 CUNY Murray Kempton Awards for Journalism:
Can you devise a business plan for a profitable New Media organization that can deliver quality journalism, pay salaries and support an ongoing news-gathering organization? Your business model cannot rely upon foundation support and must be self-sustaining through revenues it generates.
Your proposal can be for a journalistic enterprise large or small. It can have a general or a sharply focused mission. The goal is not to devise a plan to save an Old Media company.
THE BUSINESS PLAN MUST INCLUDE STANDARD FEATURES (if you're not a business major, do some research to see what they are). Among other components, it should:
JUDGING will be by a panel of professional journalists and business experts who are familiar with New Media.
DEADLINE: 5 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009."
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