It feels like 2022 was the year when podcasting came back to earth. After years of go-go growth, podcast hits going mainstream, major corporate investment, and hype about the market to come ($4 billion by 2024!!), optimism about the...
From the deadly toll of the war in Ukraine on journalists to the rise of The Sun in the US, here are 12 charts which tell the story of 2022 for news media.1) Journalists protest low pay in the...
I’m fortunate to have a front row seat to the remarkable daily work of public media organizations across the country. Hundreds of stations are making important daily choices, across programming, content, and format. Such strategic choices can be consequential...
I wrote for Nieman predictions that radical salary transparency would start in 2020. The process has taken much longer — and been far less radical — than expected. Some states and municipalities have passed laws, so days of whisper...
War fatigue hit Ukrainian, Russian and war-focused media in November, according to recently published Similarweb data. Blackouts in Ukraine and changes to social media algorithms likely added to headwinds faced by publishers.Ukrainian and Russian media reviewed by The Fix were hit by almost...
This was quite a year for journalism worldwide, and the German-speaking world was no exception. With the accelerating climate crisis causing one of the driest summers ever and the men’s football World Cup in Qatar, there was no shortage...
From audience analytics to programmatic advertising and automated story creation, media companies have used Artificial Intelligence (AI) for some time. However, this technology is rapidly maturing and opening up new creative and business possibilities that media executives need to...
One of the most important taglines in recent history may be the Washington Post’s “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” To me, it is a mission statement about journalism’s role in society – to inform, to explain, to educate. It implies...
As we all close out 2022, I’m pausing — as I do annually — to reflect on some of the most important and impactful news collaborations of the year.It’s pretty easy to compile this list. That’s because partnerships in...
We’ve been here before, but now the major social platforms are collapsing at once.Meta threatened to remove news from Facebook altogether and made business decisions to deprioritize news throughout the year. Twitter is making rapid changes under Elon Musk’s...
