An Internet Manifesto by German journalists, bloggers

A group of 15 journalists and bloggers in Germany were industrious on our Labor Day, publishing an

Internet Manifesto: How journalism works today. Seventeen declarations.

This collection of positions about the future of journalism was published on Monday in German by a group they say are "more or less known in the German new media landscape."

An English version was published today and users have contributed Finnish and Romanian versions.

One of the authors, Janko Roettgers chimed in today with his Time to Take a Stance on the Future of Journalism. Roettgers says:

Newspaper publishers all around the world have been mounting attacks against search engines, aggregators and bloggers in recent months. Germany’s news industry has been no exception.

In many ways the Internet Manifesto is in response to that attack. It is interesting because it lets us hear new voices in the debate over how the business of journalism is changing .. and whether journalism itself is changing.

It is also interesting in its simplicity.

Key points:
The Internet is different.
The Internet is a pocket-sized media empire.
The net requires networking.
Today’s freedom of the press means freedom of opinion.

Read German? Here's the original: Internet-Manifest

What does post-newspaper journalism look like?

What would happen if a major U.S. city was suddenly without a daily newspaper?

On the Media’s Bob Garfield posed that idea, which seems increasingly possible these days, to CUNY Professor Jeff Jarvis.

Jarvis, who made the rounds this weekend after his appearance at 'Of the Press: Models for Preserving American Journalism,' a three-day conference at the Aspen Institute, shares his thoughts on his BuzzMachine blog.

Among the topics discussed last week in Aspen: ways to make content profitable again, free vs. paywall models, and how the news industry is in for several years of experimentation as it develops new business models and experiments with new revenue opportunities.

On Editor & Publisher, Steve Outing shared highlights from the conference: The Future of News, Viewed From Aspen's Rarefied Atmosphere.

The Aspen event was live-streamed and can still be seen at The Aspen Institute's site.

You can follow Jarvis as he continues to discuss his ideas on Twitter:
@JeffJarvis

And it was just announced this morning that Jarvis will be taking his thoughts to a world stage at 'Is World Journalism in Crisis?' in England in October.