Every product manager faces uncertainty. Whether you’re launching a new product, scaling an existing product, onboarding into a new role, or tackling just about anything else as a product manager, you

Introduction Professionals seem to be accepting audience engagement metrics—clicks, likes or shares—as a characteristic of journalism that can be integrated into their everyday work, with an unprecede

Local newspapers’ business operation has traditionally been based on a double value creation logic whereby news is sold to audiences in one market and the attention of these audiences is sold to adver

Most news sites were built in the advertisement economy. Every decision optimizes for driving page views. Hence, the design of the news homepage (and landing pages) was similar to that of e-commerce p

May 26, 2021 Dear Majority Leader Schumer, Republican Leader McConnell, Madam Speaker and Republican Leader McCarthy: Local news is a pillar of democracy’s civic infrastructure — and it is crumbling.

A A/B Testing Accessibility Testing * Agile * Affinity Map Affordance * Analytics * Archetype * Artifact * Attention or Discoverability test * B Benchmark Testing Bias C Card sort Click test * Clickst

The thousand or so wolves that live in Wisconsin may inadvertently be doing a service to humanity, saving the lives of dozens of people. On average, 19,757 Wisconsinites collide with deer every year,

The stereotype of the visionary male founder dominates Silicon Valley. The “move fast and break things” culture rewards those who announce promising new directions with confidence, often neglecting ex

It’s surprisingly difficult for organizations of any kind to stop doing things. And the more complex the thing (or the organization), the harder it can be to kill. Some of the reasons why may sound fa

This edited collection examines the gig economy in the age of convergence from a critical political economic perspective. Contributions explore how media, technology, and labor are converging to creat

Topics Leadership Leading Change Frontiers An MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. More in this series Subscribe Permissions and PDF Image courtesy of S

Citation and Embed Code , Tawfik, A. A. , Jahnke, I. , & Earnshaw, Y. (2020). Learner and User Experience Research: An Introduction for the Field of Learning Design & Technology (1st ed.) . EdTech Boo

Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (especially its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces. A lot feels up for grabs in society right now, not

So, let’s talk about how the culture of mediocre, unremarkable white dudes in tech continues to fail us as a community, our customers/clients, and society as a whole AND what we can do to change it 1.

In the past quarter-century of the media industry’s transition from the printed page to the digital space, there’s been no category more vexing than local news. The costs are high and the revenue low.

|| Phillip Crawley, the Englishman who runs Canadian national news title the Globe and Mail, is a newsroom executive of the old school. He has tales of working alongside Rupert Murdoch, sparring with

A few days back, I was reading about the Industrial Revolution in Europe when I came across the story of ‘knocker-uppers’. It was a profession in Britain and Ireland that started during the Industrial

For years I’ve studied use and abuse of the word innovation . In the business world, it’s often used as a empty filler word, without meaningful intent. You can test this by simply asking someone using

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Errol Morris has long shown an obsession with the nature of facts and evidence ( The Thin Blue Line ), violence and war ( The Fog of War ), and obsession itself ( Fast, Cheap & Out of Control ). His n

Looking for a Covid-19 vaccine? Need your sidewalk shoveled? Who you gonna call? Your local news outlet. Many newsrooms are adopting a broader role in which they don’t just report the news — they help

I just had the good fortune to participate in a workshop. The workshop was geared towards coming up with ideas to help disabled people with technology. So far, so good. The well-intentioned creators o

Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long time i

Imagine, for a moment, that you are visiting a small village on the tropical island of San Serriffe. At the hotel counter the clerk is describing the local attractions: orchards to the south, a beach

Photo by airfocus . Welcome to our series of CEO Guides. The aim of these articles is to provide a short guide on key technology topics. These reflect the common questions we are asked by CEOs as well

People often talk about the need to “break down organizational silos” or “enable more cross-functional collaboration” within a company. Sounds great! But it’s easier said than done. Consultants have s

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Can You Have More Than 150 Friends? A new study questions that figure, known as Dunbar’s number. The Oxford professor for whom it is named, Robin Dunbar, dismissed the findings as “absolutely bonkers.

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The 30th of March 2021 marked five years since the launch of The Times and Sunday Times 'digital editions'. A project that took two years from the initial concepts, to a final launch. Now, 1500 editio

As I wave my plate of paella in front of the webcam, Daniel Kahneman drops the bombshell. “I have had my lunch.” Awkward. A lunch over Zoom was never an especially appetising prospect, and perhaps it

Last year PwC investigated where the money goes in digital advertising, at the behest of the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA). This wasn’t an easy task, as a single programmatic ad p

Part 1: The plan This ambassador campaign wasn’t the first time that Zetland found a mission-aligned way to solve a sustainability challenge. Back in 2016, they noticed that their once-loyal members w

✨ We are hiring! View our open roles 9 Membership-powered local news sites September 12, 2019 — by Fiona Tapp The 24-hour news cycle can make it feel like we are living in a world of too much current

Becca Aaronson is the director of product at Chalkbeat, a nonprofit education news organization. She was the first product manager at The Texas Tribune when she graduated from Poynter’s Leadership Aca