Ask HN: Who is innovating business models for media content?
Hi HN,<p>I'm a student journalist writing an article on innovative business models for media content. There's been quite a lot of destruction of old business models in the last 10-15 years, and ads aren't making up for content being online for free. I'm examining some of the sites that experimenting with new ideas/models. Please let me know if I'm missing any top innovators in this space!<p>I'm focusing on paywalls/subscriptions, voluntary/mandatory micropayments, and advocacy/pro-active journalism services.<p>The sites/organizations I'm covering so far:<p>WSJ &#38; Dow Jones Local Media Group newspapers (metered paywall)<p>NY Times (metered paywall proposed)<p>Financial Times (day/week Paypal micropayments)<p>Kachingle [distribute monthly fee to sites you support]<p>Flattr [distribute monthly fee to content you like]<p>Fraxion Payments [wordpress micropayments plugin] (interviewed co-founder)<p>JournalismOnline.com (Press Plus) -- interviewed spokesperson. [Press Plus has 1,400 letters of intent from newspapers in U.S., offering publishers 16 charging options]<p>Spot.Us -- proactive crowd-funded journalism, non-profit.<p>ProPublica -- proactive advocacy journalism non-profit, just won Pulitzer.<p>Wikileaks -- (I interviewed Julian Assange, editor) donation-supported non-profit that specializes in leaked information disclosure, controversial, behind recent Iraq video<p>Peer News -- for-profit, business model unannounced, but moving away from article format to more wiki/community powered.<p>Thanks so much, my hope is to provide a quality overview of the change happening in this industry. Will post article link when published.
Jeremy