{"id":41645,"date":"2013-08-06T08:01:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T12:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=41645"},"modified":"2013-08-06T08:03:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T12:03:15","slug":"higher-ed-can-find-some-value-in-these-bezoz-comments-after-purchasing-wash-post-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/08\/06\/higher-ed-can-find-some-value-in-these-bezoz-comments-after-purchasing-wash-post-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher ed can find some value in these Bezoz&#8217; comments after purchasing Wash Post [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/jeff-bezos-on-post-purchase\/2013\/08\/05\/e5b293de-fe0d-11e2-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bezos on Post purchase <\/a><\/strong>&#8212; from washingtonpost.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_606w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2013\/08\/05\/National-Enterprise\/Images\/151367140-2100.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">David McNew\/Getty Images &#8211; The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper<br \/>\nto Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos for $250 million August 5, 2013.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt of comments:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The Internet is transforming<\/strong> almost every element of the news business: shortening news cycles, eroding long-reliable revenue sources, and enabling new kinds of competition, some of which bear little or no news-gathering costs.<\/span> There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.<\/strong> <\/span>Our touchstone will be readers, understanding what they care about \u2013 government, local leaders, restaurant openings, scout troops, businesses, charities, governors, sports \u2013 and working backwards from there.<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> I\u2019m excited and optimistic about the opportunity for <strong>invention<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos on Post purchase &#8212; from washingtonpost.com &nbsp; David McNew\/Getty Images &#8211; The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos for $250 million August 5, 2013. &nbsp; Excerpt of comments: The Internet is transforming almost every element of the news business: shortening news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,286,143,533,3,180,55,239,62,219,436,310,212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-digital-learning","category-disruption","category-experimentation","category-higher-education","category-innovation","category-internet","category-new-business-models","category-online-learning","category-online-tutoring","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","category-surviving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41653,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41645\/revisions\/41653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}