tkclass online news history
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A quick tour of the history of online news. For "Trends in Communication & Technology," JOUR 4871-003, fall 2012, CU-Boulder.TRANSCRIPT
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A quick historical tourof online news
Trends in Communication & Information TechnologyJOUR 4871-003
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CompuServe: 1969 beginnings
1980: Columbus Dispatch was first newspaper to go
online with CompuServe
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Early 1990s: the BBS newspaper
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Mid 1990s: America Online hosted newspapers
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Mid 1990s: Newspapers on Prodigy
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Mid 1990s: ‘World Wide Web’ won out
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Media skeptical through 1990s
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The iPad was envisioned in Boulder!
Roger Fidler ran the Information Design Lab in
Boulder, mid-1990s
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Facebook: only for college students (for a while)
MySpace launched 2003: Could you have guessed whichwould hit it big, which would tank?
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Most media people dissed Twitter at first...
From "trivial" to "vital element of the 24-hour news ecosystem."
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... Ditto for blogging (and some still do)
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Online comments: Anonymity long the norm
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News publishers’ problems adapting...• Not good at identifying trends; not in their DNA• Didn’t innovate enough!• Preferred follow the leader (herd mentality)• Low R&D investment compared to other industries• Difficult to innovate when you have to put out a daily news
product• Missed early investment opportunities (Google, Netscape, eBay,
AOL -- oops!)• Didn’t create new online/digital services -- replicated news product
online• Bob Kaiser (Washington Post) in 1992: suggested computer game
with serious (news) purpose ... Still not much done with news games
• Missed obvious threats: Craigslist, eBay, Monster.com• Digital evangelists on staff not given much power by top
management
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Do you think these would have succeeded?
Millions of these were given away in 2000 ...The company raised $185M from investors!
I wonder why this 2001 product never made it out of
prototype stage?!
e.g., perfume ad online; consumer
smells it
e.g., Sitting at your PC while reading print magazine; scan print code, extra content or ad shows up on PC
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New today: Fad? Or will it succeed?
(Brad Feld investment)
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Ongoing problem: Little time spent on news sites
Average user: 423 minutes/month(Dec. 2011)
Top 25 newspaper websites: Average user:
12 minutes/month