Trend No. 1. Publishers are pivoting toward users and away from advertisers and investors as their main source of financial support.The business model that depended on advertising to support journalism is moribund and nearly dead. The automated buying and...
Olena Kurilo became the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Bloodied and bandaged, the 53-year-old teacher said she couldn't believe what had happened to her and her town of Chuhuiv.Her picture was on the front pages of newspapers across...
Memes can be fun ways to comment on current events or pop culture. They also build a sense of community on social media. Unfortunately, memes have also become a sneaky way to spread misinformation. This viral meme was shared on...
The Times gained an average of 1,000 new digital subscribers a day during the first two weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one of its highest ever growth rates.Times head of digital Edward Roussel told Press Gazette that...
“We don’t need third-party cookies to be successful and we don’t need our user’s private information to help them achieve their goals. In our experience, first-party data and intent-driven contextual advertising beat third-party cookie-based advertising performance every time.”At the...
SUBSTACK, A HOSTING and publishing platform for email newsletters, took what seemed like an innocuous step last week: it launched a standalone smartphone app. Not surprising, perhaps, since almost every content startup has an app. But Substack’s app is...
It will be named for a word that is the same in dozens of languages. It will recruit English-speaking journalists from countries like India and Singapore to cover the news. And according to its co-founder, “The era of the...
Another quarter in our experiment as our own bosses flew by, and we weren’t sure whether we should do another quarterly update on how our business is going.That’s because our update isn’t as rosy as our first quarter was....
“A winning bet,” “a success,” “a cash cow”: Over the years there has been no shortage of superlatives in the press to describe Mediapart’s fortunes. The growth of the paywalled investigative news site exceeds that of nearly all other...
It’s official: We’re retiring the BuzzFeed News app.You’ll still be able to find our award-winning journalism, push alerts, and updates in the main BuzzFeed app — so if you don’t have it already, make sure you give it a...
