Comments on: Has Bild stumbled upon a clever business model for news?

By: Essential Ways to Engage Your Audience with Photography | Digital Journalism Workshop at Ithaca College

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:41:32 +0000

[...] 2. Flickr group. You probably have a staff photographer who covers most of the events for you. You probably wish you had two or even three staff photographers. Can’t afford it? I know, I know, the times are tough… How about letting your audience contribute to the visual pool of your newspaper? Ask your readers to send you their photos of the local events. You don’t have to accept and publish all of them, of course, but you can go as far as creating a community photo pool on Flickr and stream those pictures on your Web site (again, Web traffic and more publicity for your site). You will need a pro Flicker account ($24.95 per year) to have an unlimited amount of picture sets and uploads. You can even try to do what Das Bild did in collaboration with a local supermarket to make some money and have a large selection of photos to choose from. Paul Bradshaw analyzes this initiative here. [...]

By: Reader reporters , a new word for embedded publishing : Scribed Notes

Reader reporters , a new word for embedded publishing : Scribed Notes — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:03:54 +0000

[...] Has Bild stumbled upon a clever business model for news? | Online Journalism Blog It comes with software and a USB port that allows “reader-reporters” to upload content directly to editors who will be assigned to review it for publication.” Category: embedded publishing [...]

By: ::: Think Macro ::: » Reading blogs #8

::: Think Macro ::: » Reading blogs #8 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:21:26 +0000

[...] “Has Bild stumbled upon a clever business model for news?” – An interesting case on Online Journalism Blog about a German newspaper experimenting with participatory journalism. [...]

By: Clever business model for German newspaper Bild? « Theicecreamdebate

Clever business model for German newspaper Bild? « Theicecreamdebate — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:21:11 +0000

[...] not my words, but those of Paul Bradshaw. He wrote a very interesting article about the German newspaper Bild. Mentioning that Bild has joined up with super market Lidl to sell very cheap, basic cameras. Those [...]

By: ‘jornalismo’ para as massas - Bild+Lidl+Creative «

‘jornalismo’ para as massas - Bild+Lidl+Creative « — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:17:30 +0000

[...] para tornar muito simples o upload de videos para o site Bild.de. Há quem ache que a ideia é brilhante e há quem olhe para o desenvolvimento com algumas reservas. Eu convoco, a este propósito, uma das [...]

By: Is your news organisation making new money? | Online Journalism Blog

Is your news organisation making new money? | Online Journalism Blog — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:45:21 +0000

[...] a simple question. Following on from my post on Bild last week, how is your news organisation exploring new sources of revenue? Are they hosting events? Selling [...]

By: Dorien

Dorien — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:22:44 +0000

Interesting Paul! Guess if they can do that with digital cameras, they can -like you suggest in your comment- do it with a lot more: mobile phone (subscriptions), wifi or other access, laptops,….Curious where this is heading to.

By: Paul Bradshaw

Paul Bradshaw — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:39:59 +0000

Carl – you miss my point. The ‘new market’ is people who need a digital camera to take pictures for the newspaper.
Of course, it’s a crap new market, because as you point out, it’s not like most people don’t have either a digital camera, and I’m not clear if the USB port works like a Flip or is just a lead.
But the principle remains.
For instance, a better move would have been to sell a mobile phone, pre-installed with Shozu-type software which allows them to upload images and video to Bild (even better, give them initial free web access to stimulate play). People upgrade their mobiles more than they do their digital cameras.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:23:40 +0000

I think you’re right Paul. I thought the same when Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter released a branded phone. Nothing seemed to come of that in the industry but I think making it easy to participate is the key.

With the branded camera out there it’s going to be easy to get a community on flickr etc.

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:42:23 +0000

Genius! I’ll bet nobody in Germany had thought to buy a digital camera before this initiative.
Oh. Wait a minute. Everybody in the world who has even spent one nanosecond thinking about taking a picture in the past five years already has a digital camera.
Still, congratulations Bild on creating a new market. Or not.