By: E&P Staff The American Press Institute (API) announced today a major yearlong project to invent and test new business models to help newspapers thrive in the next decade. It's called ?Newspaper Next: The Transformation Project,? and API is investing $2 million into this project, which it calls the centerpiece of the Institute's 60th anniversary.
"At stake is no less than the viability of newsgathering and dissemination today and into the next decade," Andrew B. Davis, API's president and executive director, said in a statement.
Stephen T. Gray, former managing publisher of The Christian Science Monitor and former chief executive officer and editor of The Monroe (Mich.) Evening News, has been named managing director of the project.
Gray and API will work with Innosight LLC, a consulting firm founded by Harvard Business School professor and innovation strategist Clayton Christensen.
API has recruited a task force of 25 industry innovators and thought-leaders to collaborate with Gray and the Innosight team.
According to API, the project has the following goals: Assess the threat to newspapers in the next decade, including emerging competition; determine opportunities for newspapers, including implementation of available new technology; suggest executable new business initiatives -- products, services and strategies -- with detailed rationales; provide implementation guides for these business plans.
Final task force recommendations are expected in late 2006 and will be tested in an operating daily newspaper beginning in late 2006 or early 2007.
Task force members are:
Decker Anstrom, president and chief operating officer, Landmark Communications
Reid Ashe, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Media General Inc.
Donna Barrett, chief operating officer, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Peter Bhatia, executive editor, The Oregonian, Portland
Jennifer Carroll, director of news development, Gannett Co. Inc.
Rob Curley, new media director, Naples (Fla.) Daily News
Luis Alberto Ferr?, editor, El Nuevo D?a, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Laura Gordon, senior vice president of marketing, Dallas Morning News
Christian Hendricks, vice president of interactive media, The McClatchy Co.
Jennie Lambert, publisher, The Shelby (N.C.) Star
Jonathan Landman, deputy managing editor, The New York Times
Caroline Little, chief executive officer and publisher, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
Stacy Lynch, director of innovation, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Joycelyn Marek, vice president of marketing and public affairs, Houston Chronicle
Lincoln Millstein, senior vice president and director of digital media, Hearst Newspapers
Andrew Nachison, director, The Media Center
Hillary Schneider, senior vice president, Knight Ridder
Dean Singleton, vice chairman and chief executive officer, MediaNews Group
Rich Skrenta, chief executive officer, Topix.net
Sreenath Sreenivasan, dean of students, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Gary Watson, retired, former president of Gannett Newspaper Division, Gannett Co. Inc.
John Wilcox, president and chief operating officer, Ottaway Newspapers Inc.
Bob Wyman, co-founder and chief technology officer, PubSub.com
Steve Yelvington, digital strategist, Morris DigitalWorks
Owen Youngman, vice president of development, Chicago Tribune Co.
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