Thinking about attending the FTC workshop on the future of journalism in the Internet age?

Here is the beginning of the FTC’s press release:

Consumers are increasingly turning to the Internet for news and information. Advertisers are moving ads to online sites and scaling back on ad buys as a result of the recession, and news organizations are struggling with large debts that were acquired during better times. As a result, some are questioning how journalism will evolve in the future.

The workshop will consider a wide range of issues, including: the economics of journalism in print and online; the wide variety of new business and non-profit models for journalism online; factors relevant to the new economic realities for news organizations, such as behavioral and other targeted online advertising, online news aggregators, and bloggers; and the ways in which the costs of journalism could be reduced without reducing quality. Read more…

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Agenda

• Read the Public Comments
• Read SPJ’s Digital Media Committee comments
• Read SPJ’s Northern California Chapter comments

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