Structure and Journalism

By: Ross Settles | 09/22/2010

As part of developing sustainable business models for online media, I have tried to catch-up with what Reg Chua is thinking about the structure of journalism at his blog “(Re)Structuring Journalism”.

I have followed Reg on this topic for about a year. But I continue to struggle with what are we structuring and what problem are we solving. I think Reg would argue that through structure we create enduring context, which leads to engagement, which should lead to value. But there are a lot of turns in that argument and to put some of this into practice, I have tried to break it down a bit further.

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