"Our society is quite litigious, and a big concern I have about new journalism models is how journalists will be protected from investigation subjects protected by high-powered lawyers".
Well, it's no secret that ad-supported journalism models are under stress, and the release alludes to one of the bigger challenges for alt weeklies — namely their reliance on sex- and escort-related ads, which Barbey eliminated when he took over.
U.S. journalism's business model is collapsing; the people who should be out in front defending Assange are facing cut salaries or unemployment because of the medium that Assange represents.
Professional journalism, supported by an advertising model, is "not a real authentic way of presenting copy", he argued.
As for the financials of journalism, Massai said that the business model is pushing ad revenue away from traditional TV and print outlets, and into online businesses, especially search.
Their model is untested in political journalism.
Vikki Porter, the director of the Knight Digital Media Center at the University of Southern California, called the project an excellent example of how a classic journalism model "can be mashed up with the 2.0 storytelling tools of the Web".
The other journalism model has been public ownership or public-private partnerships.
For instance, behavioural journalism is based on modelling, and the parameters for modelling are that the audience can identify with the model, that the model is rewarded for the desired behaviour, that the audience possesses the self-efficacy needed for the desired behaviour and that the model is a coping model rather than a mastery model [ 32].
"A completely independent journalism model may not be hugely successful," says Yildirim.
