Niche has long had a whiff of the pejorative as a nice way of saying “unambitious, not unlike when someone compliments a “lifestyle business.” Yet in different ways, successful companies like Dotdash Meredith, Future, even Barstool are built on...
The threat of misinformation is ever present, and the fast-approaching midterm elections are a breeding ground for misleading narratives to spread on social media. That’s especially true for Latinos in the United States who speak only Spanish.There aren’t as...
Last Monday, I wrote about the early “warning signs” in this year’s Senate polling. Then three days later, I helped write up the results of a new national survey: a New York Times/Siena College poll showing Democrats up by...
The BBC is planning to cut almost 400 jobs in the World Service as part of a plan to save £28.5m from its £340m annual budget and shift more content from linear to digital.
Origen: BBC World Service to cut...
Every journalist has a social media horror story. Whether it’s a minor misspelling, a break of objectivity or an online beef, the prevalence of social media in journalism today makes very public missteps almost unavoidable. But what if journalists...
For a news organization, being owned by an oligarch can be complicated. In 2013, when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post from the Graham family, those complications were not top of mind. The Post was in a downward spiral, sloughing...
Here are 10 things I learned, and 10 things you also should know, about AI in journalism:1. AI Is Not What You ThinkFirst of all: AI is probably not what you think. We have been biased by science fiction...
The median news brand has experienced a 130% increase in the number of digital subscribers between 2019 and 2022, according to INMA’s Subscription Benchmarking Service. “In a time of crisis — especially a pandemic — people turn to trusted sources...
Mike Reed has a long-lens vision for Gannett, Co., Inc. It’s foresight that looks a decade ahead to 2032, and he shared it with Borrell Associates’ Gordon Borrell and Corey Elliott on Episode 80 of their co-hosted Local Marketing...
In digital newsrooms around the world, there is a clock counting down to the second half of 2024 and the demise of the third-party cookie. The question of first-party data, and what it’s going to mean for our business, is...
