31 posts and columns on Clay Shirky
Survive.
Our overall recommendation for new news organizations is even simpler than for journalists or for legacy organizations: Survive.
–From a Columbia Journalism School report by CUNY’s C.W. Anderson, Columbia’s Emily Bell and NYU’s Clay Shirky, entitled “Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present”
Interview: C.W. Anderson and Emily Bell Discuss the Future of “Post-Industrial Journalism”
Step one: Open Microsoft Excel. Step two: Do everything else.Eye to Eye
Tools for Taming the Media
Clay Shirky and John Battelle share their strategies for media consumption.Bundles and Paywalls
As long as the newspaper was a bundle, no one ever had to care that people were buying it for radically different reasons. But once you go online, and people can unbundle things, where you can traffic directly to a story without going through the home page or any of the rest of it, suddenly what it — the individual choices made by individual readers come to matter a lot.
— Clay Shirky, on NPR’s Talk of the Nation with Neal Conan