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Just last week, I blogged about how Newsy.com has relocated from California to Columbia MO to take advantage of its remarkable talent pool (including the Missouri School of Journalism), business friendly environment and high quality of living.
A few days later, BusinessWeek magazine named Columbia one of the top 50 cities for startups. Newsy.com President Jim Spencer is quoted in the article explaining the benefits of locating Newsy.com in Columbia. You can find the quote in the link below:
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/03/0327_smallcity_startups/26.htm
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As our new site design hits the Web this week, we look forward to promoting it nationwide and worldwide. Locally, BoCoCoMo (that’s Boone County, Columbia, MO, in case you didn’t know) has taken great interest in the Internet startup that moved all the way from Northern California to locate here.
Here’s some of our recent coverage:
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2009/feb/14/new-perspective-news/
http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/3248/2009/01/23/news-site-prepares-marketing-launch/
http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2008/10/24/journalism-school-and-newsycom-partner-two-classes/
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Two of the sworn enemies of the media business agree on one thing: there is too much news. To even try to consume it, news needs to be “sifted,” “sorted,” “filtered” and “curated.”
Both Tina Brown and Michael Wolff use these buzzwords when they describe their news startups, The Daily Beast and Newser.com, respectively. Wolff says that the real value in a world of infinite information is sorting and filtering and Brown described her venture as curated content, typified by the interpretive scoop.
In this recent post on AlwaysOn, http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/31308 , Magnify.net’s Steve Rosenbaum quotes Wolff as saying that “There is no killer mass market news brand. No network news replacement. No trusted online paper. Nobody has yet to unlock the two key elements of general interest news — an efficient and entertaining experience — and combine them with all the new functionality of digital delivery.”
Newsy.com meets this description perfectly. Stay tuned for a new site design in the coming weeks – it’s based on our users’ feedback.
