Comments on: Different direction for media organizations? http://alainsaffel.com/media-organizations-new-form/ Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:09:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Closing Edmonton news site YegNews.com | alainsaffel.com http://alainsaffel.com/media-organizations-new-form/comment-page-1/#comment-3024 Closing Edmonton news site YegNews.com | alainsaffel.com Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:50:35 +0000 http://alainsaffel.com/?p=927#comment-3024 [...] I had it to do over again, I would look at the original online media model I proposed. I just think that would work much [...] [...] I had it to do over again, I would look at the original online media model I proposed. I just think that would work much [...]

]]> By: Alain Saffel http://alainsaffel.com/media-organizations-new-form/comment-page-1/#comment-2441 Alain Saffel Wed, 19 May 2010 19:47:18 +0000 http://alainsaffel.com/?p=927#comment-2441 Hi Ross, Good to hear you're well. All is good here in Edmonton! Thanks for the comment. Glad the Dominion Paper project is working well. I think the economic model of the media is probably one of the least sexy but most important topics regarding journalism today. Nobody wants to talk about it either. I think it's great what you guys are doing, but it appears it's mainly a secondary project for most. I'm sure many would love to do it full-time, and that's idea behind what I've written here. With everything happening in the world today, we need more full-time journalists than ever; this at a time when we're seeing fewer. Every effort helps though. I just hope that people start coming around to our way of thinking sooner as opposed to later. Hi Ross,

Good to hear you’re well. All is good here in Edmonton!

Thanks for the comment. Glad the Dominion Paper project is working well.

I think the economic model of the media is probably one of the least sexy but most important topics regarding journalism today. Nobody wants to talk about it either.

I think it’s great what you guys are doing, but it appears it’s mainly a secondary project for most. I’m sure many would love to do it full-time, and that’s idea behind what I’ve written here. With everything happening in the world today, we need more full-time journalists than ever; this at a time when we’re seeing fewer.

Every effort helps though. I just hope that people start coming around to our way of thinking sooner as opposed to later.

]]> By: Ross http://alainsaffel.com/media-organizations-new-form/comment-page-1/#comment-2440 Ross Wed, 19 May 2010 19:21:03 +0000 http://alainsaffel.com/?p=927#comment-2440 Hi Alain, Ross from J-school here. Hope you're well. Good article! It held particular interest for me because I've been volunteering in my spare time for a media co-op for four years now. I went the corporate route after graduation, but I've perpetually yearned for a sustainable business model for media organizations that would facilitate my return to a profession so critical to society. I found that model in The Dominion, a grassroots media co-op out of Montreal that publishes almost daily online and monthly in hardcopy. Four years ago, they were only just starting out, but today they have local divisions in Halifax, Toronto and Vancouver...and can pay editing staff and journalists alike. But don't take my word for it, here's what Noam Chomsky thinks: "As media monopoly extends, and doctrinal rigidity in what remains becomes ever more intense, it would be a major contribution for the functioning of a free society to have independent news sources, free from corporate or state control, internally organized in ways that exemplify what a truly participatory and democratic society would be. I was therefore delighted to learn of the Dominion Paper project, an ambitious and impressive effort to fulfill this urgent need. I know of nothing like it, and wish it the greatest success, for the benefit of all of us." Vive la revolution! Hi Alain,

Ross from J-school here. Hope you’re well. Good article! It held particular interest for me because I’ve been volunteering in my spare time for a media co-op for four years now. I went the corporate route after graduation, but I’ve perpetually yearned for a sustainable business model for media organizations that would facilitate my return to a profession so critical to society. I found that model in The Dominion, a grassroots media co-op out of Montreal that publishes almost daily online and monthly in hardcopy. Four years ago, they were only just starting out, but today they have local divisions in Halifax, Toronto and Vancouver…and can pay editing staff and journalists alike.
But don’t take my word for it, here’s what Noam Chomsky thinks:
“As media monopoly extends, and doctrinal rigidity in what remains becomes ever more intense, it would be a major contribution for the functioning of a free society to have independent news sources, free from corporate or state control, internally organized in ways that exemplify what a truly participatory and democratic society would be. I was therefore delighted to learn of the Dominion Paper project, an ambitious and impressive effort to fulfill this urgent need. I know of nothing like it, and wish it the greatest success, for the benefit of all of us.”

Vive la revolution!

]]>