Spring cleaning came early for Bloomberg Media. Last fall, the publisher said it would cut ties with the programmatic open marketplace as well as the chumbox provider content recommendation company Taboola. The pivot toward an “audience-first mentality,” as Bloomberg CEO Scott Havens called it when…

Reporters interview Boston Red Sox pitcher James Paxton at Fenway South in Fort Myers, Florida, on Feb. 16, 2023. (Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) The beats American journalists cover vary widely by gender and other factors, according to a new analysis of a Pew Research Center survey of…

Reader revenue and sponsored content — accelerated by mission-minded brands during the COVID-19 pandemic — are becoming steady and growing pieces of the revenue pie chart for local publishers. From left: Penny Riordan, LMA director of business strategy and partnerships and Apryl Pilolli, director of…

Ritvvij Parrikh 7 min read· Mar 31, 2023 -- Co-authored with Ashish Jaiswal , Manish Mishra, Fanendra Tripathi, and Prafulla Gupta. In the previous blog, we introduced the Signals personalization product. So far, we had implemented Signals on TOI Plus, which is a startup product within TOI. After…

We vastly overvalue the idea of “ideas” in design. Meaningful additions to the world rest on novel connections among pre-existing concepts, objects and situations, not self-indulgent originality for its own sake. What we glorify as flashes of brilliance are usually astute observations about the…

(Allan Ko, Merry Mou, and J. Nathan Matias all contributed equally) When Instagram banned hashtags promoting eating disorders in April 2012, it seemed like a victory for civil society and public health. Two years into its creation, the photo-sharing site was being used by peer support communities…

By Freelance writer/editor Stockholm, Sweden Connect What should news media companies prioritise for growth in 2023? This may depend on who you ask. During conference sessions on Thursday, day four of the INMA Media Subscriptions Summit in Stockholm, the 355 attendees listened in as Will Page, the…

THE PROBLEM News coverage of the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the summer of 2020 – and the resulting protests – highlighted a decades-long problem with how Black Americans are covered in the media.1 Floyd, a Black man, died after a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his…

Local News for Whom? A News Media Census of North Carolina Callan Hazeldine, Graduate ResearcherElizabeth Thompson, Local News Researcher Clay Williams, Graduate Researcher Jessica Mahone, Ph.D, Research Director Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media, UNC Hussman School of…

Press enter or click to view image in full size Q&A: Heather Bryant on how collaboration empowers small local news startups Will Fischer 6 min read· Feb 7, 2023 -- Heather Bryant is the interim executive director for Tiny News Collective, an organization that helps local news founders start…

Often, what really matters in life is not the precise path you end up taking, but the criteria you used to arrive at that conclusion. Just as knowing yourself and why you do certain things can increase our self-awareness, having sound criteria for prioritizing tasks can teach you a lot about your…

The company said it added more than a million digital subscribers in 2022, bringing its total number of paying subscribers to 9.6 million. “It was our second-best year for net digital subscriber additions, behind only 2020,” Meredith Kopit Levien, the chief executive of The Times, said in a…

My newsletter: https://simonowens.substack.com/welcome As the media industry focuses on revenue diversification, more and more publishers are venturing into live events — both virtual and in-person. Not only can they be monetized in multiple ways, but a well-planned event can provide a great venue…

Tuesday, 8 Nov 2022 | Reading time: 6 mins 11 ways to build a stronger news business If you read LION’s 2022 Annual Report last week, you probably noticed a theme in our work – helping independent new

A Critic at Large When Americans Lost Faith in the News Half a century ago, most of the public said they trusted the news media. Today, most say they don’t. What happened to the power of the press? January 30, 2023 Popular distrust of the news media has been traced to the coverage of the stormy 1968…

Intensely focused on reader revenue for more than a decade, Fisco credits The Seattle Times’ success in large part to its high quality, local content. Winner of 11 Pulitzer Prizes, the Times has 176 journalists, which makes it the second largest news staff in the western United States after the Los…

Corneliux 7 min read· Jan 31, 2023 -- Unless you’re living in a Faraday cage under a rock, you’ve probably heard that a sizeable portion of the 200,000+ employees affected by the layoffs announced at many of the world’s largest tech companies (Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, IBM, Zoom to name a…

Press enter or click to view image in full size Member-only story Startup Lean Startup Big Market Research Bob Gilbreath 2 min read· Apr 24, 2016 -- (This is the article to share when someone makes this ^^^ claim) It’s been 13 years since the passing of Steve Jobs, we continue to follow the ups &…

In November of 2022, Foster Collective began rebuilding its media strategy from scratch. We had two goals in mind—become more adaptable in a turbulent world, and be the change we want to see in intern

You don’t need to be well-versed in quantum physics or even complex math to solve Albert Einstein’s famous house riddle. All it takes to tackle the problem below is logic—and if that isn’t enough for you, scroll down to the answer at the end of the article. According to Popular Mechanics, the riddle…

Some 100,000 years ago, language is invented... but word travels slowly. 1440: Gutenberg invents movable type 570 years later millions of peoplecan't put down Words with Friends In the digital age, we ask the question… Can journalism keep up? In the beginning Through the centuries, we have used the…

Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces. In thinking about how newsrooms have changed, I like to draw the distinction between what I call “20th century jobs,” primarily reporter or editor (copy,…

Digital publishing spawned a new language for journalists. How many of us sixty-somethings thought we’d be talking about engagement, Tweetdeck, Facebook Lives or web analytics as part of our everyday life in the newsroom? But an older, stranger language – one that was unique to the analogue…

This is Part 1 of the Becoming Data Driven in Business series. Goodhart’s Law is a famous adage that goes “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” If you’re not familiar with the adage, you can go read all about its history on Wikipedia, and perhaps also read the related…

My beloved 10-year-old black bra finally broke last Christmas. The elastic had some slack and it’d been fraying for a while, but its death sentence came when the underwire popped out the side. While it wasn’t particularly special — just a normal T-shirt bra — it was comfortable and had clearly…

Image credit: Ali Eser, https://www.artstation.com/ali_eser “The clients don’t know what [planning] is, we don’t know what [planning] is” Paul Feldwick “I feel that strategy is becoming a lost art” Roger Martin There should be no need to write this. Indeed some readers (assuming you exist) may get…

Serendipity, the accidental solution to a problem the problem-solver isn’t consciously trying to solve, is credited with some of science’s most important discoveries, from penicillin to super glue. One classic example occurred when Swiss engineer George de Mestral noticed that the microscopic teeth…

So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen... After careful consideration, we’ve made the difficult decision to phase out Pocket - our read-it-later and content discovery app. This includes the Pocket Web, Android, iOS, and macOS apps, as well as the Pocket browser extensions. Pocket has helped millions…

Editor’s note: In an ongoing series, INMA is profiling our most engaged members — our super fans — to give members a chance to learn more about each other. Today we profile Rui de Freitas, head of advertising for Ringier in Zürich, Switzerland, and co-founder and chief operating officer of the…

Zeynep Tufekci Dec. 31, 2022 A photo illustration showing a plane’s tail on the screen of an old computer. See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google Computers…

By Researcher-in-Residence INMA Oxford, United Kingdom Connect As consumers became the primary customers of news media worldwide, we know more about the strengths and opportunities of media subscriptions. What are the weaknesses? Any threats? According to World Press Trends’ estimates, in 2021…

I’ve written too many negative stories about digital media platforms in recent months. I’ve started to worry. Am I turning into Dr. Doom and Mr. Gloom? In all fairness, my predictions have proven sadly accurate. After I served up these dismal forecasts for Facebook, Spotify, Netflix, and others,…

Carla Nudel 15 min read· Dec 13, 2022 -- For my final NYU Studio 20 project, I interviewed 13 people working on audience research. Here’s what I found out about the field’s main challenges and needs. by Carla Nudel — December 2022 Press enter or click to view image in full size My audience research…

Alex Svanevik 20 min read· Mar 26, 2018 -- In 2014, I joined a small team at Schibsted Media Group as the 6th Data Scientist in the organisation. Since then, I’ve worked on many data science initiatives in an organisation that now houses 40+ Data Scientists. In this post, I’ll go through some of the…

Read the third installment on the subscription strategies of professional publications here. 01 Introduction Even before the pandemic, news publishers were thriving in a chaotic post-2016 political climate. Reader interest in current events was surging, with unique visitors to news sites climbing…

Recent discussions have been swirling around the phrase “democratization of research” concerning who should participate in what kind of research in design (product/service/technology/non-profit etc.) organizations. There has been a lot of yelling about gatekeeping and handwringing about the…

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Strategy by and Brian Hindo October 6, 2021 HBR Staff/skodonnell/Getty Images At the outset of a conference call with securities analysts in July to discuss Twitter’s second-quarter earnings, CEO Jack Dorsey laid out his company’s strategy: “We intend to build an ecosystem of connected features and…

In the last few years, there has been a rise in the amount of companies looking to expand their business and create new products. To create the best products that will find success, you'll need to follow the 7 key steps of new product development. With these steps, you'll be able to envision what…

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