As a follow up to my post on Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post, I turn to another exciting entry into journalism by a top-tier e-commerce innovator with very deep pockets, and how the new FairPay business model can work for that adventure as well.
Pierre Omidyar, billionaire founder of eBay, also considered buying The Washington Post, but revealed in his blog that he decided instead to actively participate in developing an entirely new media platform intended to support and empower independent journalists.
Such a platform is especially well suited to the use of the FairPay architecture, with its ability to engage readers to partner with journalists, by serving as patrons for work that they value. My earlier post on Bezos and The Post outlines the fundamentals of how FairPay addresses this business challenge. This post builds on that.
***Second in a series on tech billionaires (Bezos and Omidyar) reinventing the business model for journalism, not as their personal charity, but by creating a new kind of reader/patron empowered by e-commerce technologies.***
In tune with Bezos, Omidyar points to the primacy of customer relationships in e-commerce (in his interview by David Carr):
Technologists understand our users and break down how user engagement increases from somebody that maybe just tries your product once and then goes away, to a different kind of person that progressively gets more and more engaged and then becomes just totally locked into your product. That’s something people in Silicon Valley spend a ton of time analyzing, working on and thinking about.FairPay integrates this kind of engagement directly into the value exchange process (as described in my Bezos post). Here I highlight additional aspects of Omidyar's focus on "elevating and supporting" individual journalists, and how FairPay supports that.
Omidyar says (to Jay Rosen) he wants to run his venture as "a company, not a charity." That means generating a revenue stream (presumably from readers, not advertisers). Rosen describes this as "the personal franchise model." The ability to engage readers to serve as patrons is essential to that.
FairPay naturally integrates the reader's evaluation of a journalist's value directly into the pricing process. It engages the reader in ongoing "dialogs about value" on how the reader values the work of each journalist over the course of their relationship. Readers intuitively recognize many dimensions of value, and the dialog can easily be structured to elicit pricing that factors in this judgment with regard to such dimensions as quality, style, investigation, reader value, and social value .
With FairPay, an Omidyar media platform can get direct feedback from each reader on the perceived value of each article, the body of work by that journalist, and the media service as a whole.
- This can be directly linked to compensation for each journalist, thus increasing engagement and the quality of the relationship on both sides.
- Readers will know that a significant portion of their payments go to the journalists, and that their feedback bears directly on how journalists are paid (and what investigations are funded).
- Conversely, journalists will be motivated to create a body of work that readers recognize as valuable by voting for them with their wallets.
FairPay is uniquely focused on creating the multidimensional dialogs on value that are needed to turn readers into patrons of important journalism. It not only supports the journalistic effort, but guides it to the tasks that the reader/patrons consider important.
- It builds a deep relationship with readers that can feed directly into the key editorial processes that determine which journalists to support, in what investigations, and how they are paid.
- It builds a value discovery engine into the heart of the media platform, to drive it toward work that is good and important, and to get readers engaged as patrons who pay for that, both for themselves and for the common good.
I've read your Adventures in New Business Models for Journalism & think that's it's really worth reading. Found couple of necessary points about business models.
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