This document summarizes challenges facing newspapers and proposes solutions for publishers to adapt their business models. It notes that newspaper staff and advertising revenue have sharply declined in recent years. It also discusses debates around how news should be delivered and monetized online, including the role of search engines and whether users will pay for online content. The document advocates for new approaches like social curation of news, location-based filtering, and micropayments to support quality journalism into the future.

1. HAVE I GOT
NEWS FOR YOU

2. HAVE I GOT
NEWS FOR YOU
BY @NICKHALSTEAD

3. THE PROBLEM

4. In the past 10 years, newspaper
staff has shrunk by 25 percent

5. in the past three years, advertising
revenue is down almost 50 percent.

6. THE ARGUMENT

7. The Guardian Media Group has asked the
Government to examine Google News and other
content aggregators, claiming they contribute nothing
to British journalism.
31 Mar 2009
http://retwt.me/1L03t

8. “The current days of the internet will
soon be over.”
Rupert Murdoch

9. “The internet is a valuable tool. It can bring
inspiring, diligent and creative reporting into every
home. But it will not do so by obliging consumers
to accept the shoddy, propagandist ranting some
categorise as citizen journalism.”
Tim Luckhurst, GUARDIAN.CO.UK

10. THE THEORY

15. FIRST CLICK FREE

16. Murdoch Warns That Without eTablets,
“Newspapers Will Go Out Of Business.”
TECHCRUNCH.COM

17. TABLET SAVIOUR?

19. STONE

20. STONE PAPER

21. STONE PAPER WEBSITE

22. STONE PAPER WEBSITE
SAME CONTENT
DIFFERENT DELIVERY

23. PAY WALLS

24. “WE TEST MARKETED IT AND
PEOPLE I THINK UNDERSTAND
THAT IT’S PERFECTLY FAIR THAT
THEY ARE GOING TO PAY FOR IT”
Rupert Murdoch

25. WILL YOU PAY $20 A MONTH SUBSCRIPTION
FOR ‘QUALITY’ NEWS?

26. WILL YOU PAY $20 A MONTH SUBSCRIPTION
FOR ‘QUALITY’ NEWS?
YES DAD

27. AP NEWS REGISTRY

28. FIRST CLICK FREE

29. THE ‘THREAT’

30. Rupert Murdoch could sue BBC and
block Google
telegraph.co.uk

31. Murdoch threatens to block
Google search
channel4.com

32. THE REALITY

33. HOW DO WE FIND NEWS?

34. SEARCH

35. PAGERANK UNDER ATTACK

36. ALGORITHMS
NEWS

39. SOCIAL NETWORKS

40. THE FUTURE

41. "If I had asked people what they
wanted, they would have said
faster horses."
Henry Ford

42. I GET FED MY NEWS

43. IS MY SPOON
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44. MESSY SOLUTION

45. CURATION

46. AUTHORITY
FILTERING
DELIVERY

47. FILTERING

48. SEMANTIC

49. LOCATION

50. AUTHORITY

51. AUTHORITY
PUBLISHERS

52. AUTHORITY
PUBLISHERS USERS

53. AUTHORITY
PUBLISHERS USERS NETWORKS

54. DELIVERY
INTERACTIVE + REALTIME

55. MONEY

56. MICRO BROKERAGE

57. SOCIAL ADVERTISING

58. I USER I26 FOLLOWERS REACH 38,808

60. @NICKHALSTEAD