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Press release: NewsTilt Launch
“ MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- NewsLabs announced today that it has launched NewsTilt, a service for journalists to build an online brand by engaging their readers. Each journalist on the NewsTilt site interacts directly with readers, answers their questions, and consults with them on story ideas. Through these interactions, journalists aim to build a strong reader-focussed online brand for themselves. ”
NewsLabs Promises Help For Unemployed Journalists
“ So you used to have a write stories for a newspaper, and now you're out of work? Odds are, you are going to have to find something else to do. But some of you may be able to transform yourself into one-person news factories, says Paul Biggar, who wants to make money while helping you do that. ”
Journalism's new story
“ Here's something a newspaper guy, even one who writes about technology and the web, doesn't like to hear: "The old model of news is dead: newspapers are dying, journalists laid off and everything is moving online."
“ That's the view of a not-yet-launched startup, NewsTilt, aiming to upend the way reporters publish their stories. Funded by Y Combinator, the early-stage venture firm behind companies like Loopt, Reddit and Weebly, NewsTilt isn't alone in thinking traditional purveyors of news don't have much of a future. ”
Experimenting with a new journalism model: Q&A with NewsLabs co-founder Paul Biggar
Proclaiming that the old models of news are dead, a venture-backed startup called NewsLabs is recruiting journalists for a new type of journalism Ð one in which the journalists are the brands and are paid directly from the revenue their stories generate.
Shhh! Secret Journalism Startup (a.k.a. NewsLabs) wants to build your brand and make you money
“In other words: a partnership, NewsLabs promises, will allow journalists to focus on doing journalism — rather than spending their time engaged in the Everything Else that being a journalist requires these days. That subsidiary work being 'the sort of thing that journalists (a) aren't capable of doing except for a vast effort on their part, and (b) don't want to be doing,' NewsLabs' Paul Biggar told me.”