News organisations around the world are starting to pay attention to their readers’ needs and adopt a user-first model.That is the case for The Local, a news outlet for English-speaking expats, published in nine European countries.Its Swedish edition uses...
The man who brought the photo into the office of the Plymouth Herald watched him eagerly, waiting for Blackledge to see… what? A wave? A ghost? A kidney bean? Every so often, Blackledge said “no”, just to break the...
To future Americans, this period in the history of democracy will no doubt be seen as chaotic and fractured. But how will journalism be seen? As catalysts to save democracy from implosion? Or as an industry that blames market...
The New York Times has long been a byword for excellence in global journalism. With more than 130 Pulitzer Prize winners it is arguably the most accomplished English-speaking newspaper. It is also a commercial powerhouse with 10 million paying...
When Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz founded Axios, in 2017, its animating idea was that powerful people want to know what’s happening, but they don’t want to spend fifteen minutes reading about it. Axios’s e-mail newsletters would...
The Atlantic is pushing aggressively into film and TV projects as part of a wider licensing revenue push.Why it matters: The company, which expects to lose roughly $10 million again this year, needs to build another revenue stream to...
Earlier this month, Gannett’s Michael Reed had an opportunity to set a new course for the nation’s biggest newspaper company after disappointing financial results in August.Instead, he doubled down.Reed doubled down on cost-cutting, promising to cut $200 million to...
Is this the beginning of the end for the daily printed comics page in many American towns and cities?Some cartoonists and readers fear such a trend as Lee Enterprises, an Iowa-based media company that owns nearly 80 daily newspapers,...
TikTok is changing. Even a year ago, my For You page was mostly stuff you could only see on TikTok, whether it was Vine refugees making comedy shorts or song memes like Here Comes The Boy. That stuff is still...
At ONA22, yesterday’s Tech Trends talk tying the future of journalism to AI and the metaverse gave way to a discussion today about using AI and data-driven decision-making to connect more closely with audiences.In “An Editorial-AI Hybrid Approach to...
