“Is it a tech story? Is it a business and tech or policy and politics story, is it a cultural story? Well, it’s actually all the above: The impact of technology on the cognitive, economic, and political ways we live is quite transformative.”
“I think we need to be way more humble. As I often say, technology has value but it doesn’t have values. It’s what we do with it. There’s a lot of bullshit in the Valley.”
But the site may live on under other management. “We simply haven’t been able to develop the financial model of big-ticket, Catholic-based advertisers that was envisioned when we launched Crux back in September 2014.”
Nine publishers have signed on, hoping it’s a way to better monetize mobile traffic they struggle to turn into dollars. But is it a smart adjustment to digital reality — or a surrender?
The Globe is switching to a metered paywall and turning Boston.com into an independent news site. Now the paper plans to increase its digital presence with new sites covering technology and religion.
Ellis, Justin. "Embrace the unbundling: The Boston Globe is betting it’ll be stronger split up than unified." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 5 Mar. 2014. Web. 25 Apr. 2024.
APA
Ellis, J. (2014, Mar. 5). Embrace the unbundling: The Boston Globe is betting it’ll be stronger split up than unified. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/03/embrace-the-unbundling-the-boston-globe-is-betting-itll-be-stronger-split-up-than-unified/
Chicago
Ellis, Justin. "Embrace the unbundling: The Boston Globe is betting it’ll be stronger split up than unified." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 5, 2014. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/03/embrace-the-unbundling-the-boston-globe-is-betting-itll-be-stronger-split-up-than-unified/.
Wikipedia
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