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Lewis D'Vorkin, Forbes: The new language of journalism

Forbes :: Journalism must be more about the individual — the actual content creator (journalist or otherwise) and the person who’s consuming the content. In the era of the social Web, journalism can best fulfill its essential mission to inform when the individual who possesses information connects, or transacts, one-on-one with the individual who desires it.

Continue to read here Lewis D'Vorkin, www.forbes.com

$3.2b market, really? - Annals of dubious statistics, crowdfunding edition

Reuters :: Are crowdfunding statistics the new counterfeiting statistics? Certainly they seem to have become a meme. If you know that crowdfunding is a big deal, it’s probably because you read all about it in TechCrunch, in USA Today, or maybe the Economist. More recently, Forbes.

[Felix Salmon:] All of these statistics, you won’t be surprised to hear, come from the same place: a May report from Crowdfunding.org and its research arm, Massolution.

A report by Felix Salmon, blogs.reuters.com

'Static sea of links and generic news presentations' - Forbes: We're breaking free

Forbes :: Today, the Forbes.com experience is vastly different from both the past and nearly every other news and information site. It presents authoritative information as much as it calls for and creates relationships between writers, readers and marketers, too. We’re adapting to the realities of a social media, realizing that hundreds of millions of people now function as editors, information gatherers and analysts by creating personal news streams they share with friends who respect their views.

"Inside Forbes: We're breaking free ..." - Continue to read Lewis D'Vorkin, www.forbes.com

Forbes: Massive web growth comes with some (growing) pains

Mashable :: The new system makes Forbes.com more of a platform for content than a producer of content. “What we’re doing is extending our brand to 1,000 brands — the people who write through our prism,” chief product officer of Forbes Lewis D’Vorkin says. We’re also extending our brand to marketers who have to publish content on our platform,” he adds. Forbes allows advertisers to run sponsored blogs on its site. The system allows Forbes.com to produce more content more quickly. It also saves the publication the cost of hiring and maintaining editors. But it comes with other costs.

Continue to read Lauren Indvik, mashable.com

Forbes' platform: AdVoice, social 'journalism' and self-policing

Foliomag :: A couple years ago, Forbes broke ground on what it calls its “most significant re-architecture” in its 90-plus years of existence. The goal, according to chief product officer Lewis D’Vorkin, was to “increase the interaction between content creators, audiences and marketers.” In effect, it’s been a process of putting the content creator “at the center of experience,” says Mark Howard, Forbes Media’s senior vice president of digital advertising strategy.

Continue to read Stefanie Botelho | Ioanna Opidee, www.foliomag.com

Forbes.com and its journalistic robot: I, Narrative Science.

Guardian :: Visit the website of Forbes.com and read the earnings forecasts for the New York Times Company, and you will notice the byline "By Narrative Science". Normally you have to open a copy of Wallpaper* to find someone with such a florid monicker. Except of course Narrative Science is not a person but a robot journalist – actually a set of algorithms which take data and turn it into words.

What started as an experimental lab at Northwestern University with journalists and technologists working together is now a fully-fledged business that turns data into stories of a type which will not be winning many Pulitzers, but which certainly pass the Turing test of making one unsure whether they were written by a person or machine.

Continue to read Emily Bell, www.guardian.co.uk

Inside Forbes 'sustainable" model for journalism: It's 4:30 pm

Forbes :: For the last 22 months, FORBES has been aggressively building a new, sustainable model for journalism as technology continues to disrupt the media and advertising industries. We now have 1,000 content creators — staff reporters, authors, academics, topic experts and business leaders. They all use our tools to publish content and establish their individual brands on our platform. We are a disruptive force in our own right.

Lewis DVorkin of Forbes calls it "editing for talent." Find good contributors, give them good tools, set them free. onforb.es/Jsvgkv

— Jay Rosen(@jayrosen_nyu) April 23, 2012

Inside Forbes by an insider - Continue to read Lewis D'Vorkin, www.forbes.com

Will The New York Times Company survive as a stand-alone firm past 2015? - A trendline discussion

Columbia Journalism Review :: Will The New York Times Company survive as a stand-alone firm past 2015? - That’s unknowable, of course. A lot can happen between now and then. But extrapolating from current trends can give us an idea of where things are going. That’s what Ironfire Capital’s Eric Jackson does for Forbes, arguing that trendlines suggest that the “basket-case” of a company likely will either be in bankruptcy or forced to sell to someone else within three years.

Continue to read Ryan Chittum, www.cjr.org

Inside Forbes: Love 'em or hate 'em, comments are critical

Forbes :: Arthur Miller, the American playwright and one-time college reporter and night editor, said a good newspaper was like “a nation talking to itself.” Back then, it was editors and reporters who had all the say. Many decades later, The Huffington Post upended the media elite by letting the audience in, too. It coined a far less elegant phrase, “the mullet strategy,” to describe a new kind of conversation — “business in the front,” or a home page run by editors, and “a party in the back,” all the other Web pages ruled by tens of thousands of raucous commenters sounding off about one thing or another. The conversation has been and always will be at the heart of the media industry.

[Lewis D'Vorkin:] As technology amplifies today’s strident and disparate voices, many of us in digital media are working to keep the talk productive — or at the very least civil.

Continue to read Lewis D'Vorkin, www.forbes.com

Forbes' Tony townhouse is latest asset to get axed

New York Post :: The Forbes family empire continues to contract. The Greenwich Village townhouse that backed Forbes’ Fifth Avenue headquarters has been sold to condo developer the Icon Group for $7.25 million — a 52% discount from its original asking price.

Continue to read Joseph Barracato, www.nypost.com