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Time now for a brief commercial: I love the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism (and Mass Communication) at Arizona State. Why? Well, there’s the cutting edge tech and the fact that it’s way warmer than my other grad school option, Northwestern in Chicago.
But what really sets the school apart is its connections. Monday, Oct. 19, my 21st Century Media class with Tim McGuire had a special guest: Jeff Jarvis, of “What Would Google Do?” fame, via Skype.
Jarvis has some fascinating ideas about the future of media. Especially controversial is his assertion that newspapers should kill their print editions themselves and get online before ad revenue makes it impossible for them to continue to print.
But, as much as it pains me to say, the Internet isn’t going to be the saviour of news. It’s important to allow people to interact with, not just observe, what is on a site. No matter how attractive a Web site may be, no matter how much spiffy content may be on it, if the viewer can’t interact with it, it’s no more engaging than a hard copy of the paper.
At the same time, a paper’s offer of interactivity is no good if the content isn’t worth interacting with. Both factors have to be present.
As a student-journalist with a digital media obsession, I really get caught up in Jarvis’ theory that newspapers need to be a platform. Platforms, according to Jarvis, are flexible designs that anyone can apply to fill his need. Google Maps is a platform because it can be “mashed-up” and adapted to fulfill an almost infinite number of needs.
But Google doesn’t charge for the right to play with its maps code. It offers it free for the taking. Its price (or lack thereof) one very important aspect for a platform. Charging for a platform is a way of making some people ineligible to use it. That breaks craigslist founder Craig Newmark’s first principle: “Get out of the way.” If you create a fantastic platform that you want people to use, and if people want to use it, then let them. Don’t interfere. Make it easy for them to get involved, and then back off.
Newspapers need to decide what business they’re in, says Jarvis. In my opinion, we need to be asking, “How can papers better serve readers?” Newspapers are currently trying to answer this question, but for the wrong reason – so that they can accumulate more eyeballs, and sell more ads. I think that in order to succeed, they’re going to have to realize that they’re in the business of helping consumers, not selling advertising.
I asked Jarvis, in his call with our class, if he could more clearly define what a platform for newspapers would look like. One phrase in his answer jumped out at me: “Anything that helps other people succeed.”
Newspapers should help readers succeed. What a novel idea!
(In the interest of full disclosure, I must note that portions of this blog post are adapted from a paper I wrote for McGuire’s class. It seemed applicable to my blog, so I figured more exposure couldn’t be a bad thing!)
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