Teju Ravilochan admits that he knows very little about the news business and journalism. But the co-founder of the Boulder-based Unreasonable Institute had plenty of wisdom and alternative thinking to offer to participants in the “Better Business Models for Sustaining Non-profit Investigative News” symposium, held at CU-Boulder on March 5, 2011. >>>
Got a question for a faculty or staff member of CU-Boulder’s School of Journalism & Mass Communication? Answers are now available as personal video, part of an experiment in new forms of audience interaction with beta website VYou.com. >>>
‘No comment’: Swift newspaper websites keeping user comments turned off
The Greeley Tribune and other newspapers owned by Swift Communications, which last April suspended their websites’ unruly user comments threads, are expected to keep comments turned off for much longer. The company, a partner in a Test Kitchen research project, suggests that comments don’t make much difference to the bottom line. >>>