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along run history would tell you that the funding of new media is a constant. >> all right, lets move to david calloway. you are with market watch, owned by news corp.. is market watch profitable? >> [inaudible] >> absolutely. it was profitable when be sold to dow jones four years ago. it is more integrated now and it makes money. >> and general news operations be profitable online today? >> absolutely, really is not that hard. online news operations have grown in the last 10 years. th...

media. radio was new media. satellite was new media. if you look in the bay area where we work, you can see the big technology magazines based here going through the chair -- same changes as the big news baileys. founded by guys like me, adding voices to the commentary about the world of technology. a forest grows and burns in a cycle, that is a constant. along run history would tell you that the funding of new media is a constant. >> all right, lets move to david calloway. you are wit...

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news" back in the 1990s, we were trying to compete with the paper. i am here to stay mission accomplished. it has been a tough 10, 20 years. i have to tell you, some of the greatest innovation and highest quality work is coming from the ground up. if you look back over the last year, one of the most crucial issues that has concerned in this country, health care reform, we really have to say the traditional media let the country down. it has been a significant problem in the country. in...

let me ask you, is this -- given these business challenges facing the media, is it realistic to expect venture capitalists to fund new journalism? >> very much so. the history of media in this country and around the world is one of constant technological change. all of these different new technologies were supposed to ruin the business. about every 20 years something like this comes along. big media organizations try to cope with it. in their day, cable was new media. radio was new med...

next to him is ron dellens, the mayor of oakland. he has served 14 houseyears. next to him is a former writer and publisher. he and embed the publisher. next to him is david calloway, editor in chief of marketwatch.com. next to him, sandy close, the director of new american media. she is also my executive editor and i get to hold the microphone up to her. lets begin the discussion. >> thank you. lets start with a question that is on many peoples mind. with cutbacks and technology shift...

>> welcome to our town hall forum. i am the co-host of open hope" crosscurrent." i am joined by my colleague also from kalw. we would like to welcome you on behalf of the society of professional journalists for what promises to be a bi discussion about what is going on in journalism today. what we want to talk about are the rapid changes going on right now in journalism with a convergence of new technology, new media, and a weak economy. all that has basically forced changes in the way...

>> absolutely, really is not that hard. online news operations have grown in the last 10 years. they do not come from a large place that has to shrink. they can run their businesses to always have a profit. many of them got started during the internet bubble where they raised money from venture capitalists, overspending, never getting their revenues that they needed, then collapsing. but the ones that succeeded build a brand and had a product that people wanted. they were either sold o...

forum. i am the co-host of open hope" crosscurrent." i am joined by my colleague also from kalw. we would like to welcome you on behalf of the society of professional journalists for what promises to be a bi discussion about what is going on in journalism today. what we want to talk about are the rapid changes going on right now in journalism with a convergence of new technology, new media, and a weak economy. all that has basically forced changes in the way that we gather the news, in...