Archives: 2018

Ken DoctorFebruary 15, 2018
Newsonomics: 11 questions the news business is trying to answer in 2018
West Coast news chaos, a new leader at WordPress, the decline of digital display — and is The Washington Post really profitable?
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 14, 2018
$2.31/week: That’s about what you’ll pay for a digital newspaper subscription these days
Ricardo BiltonFebruary 14, 2018
Google Chrome’s built-in ad blocker goes live tomorrow. Here’s how it will work for users (and affect publishers)
Ricardo BiltonFebruary 14, 2018
Connecting reporters with experts, Sciline wants to improve the quality of today’s science reporting
“There’s so much pressure right now that it’s very tempting, more than ever, to just go with something…Often, it’s only your conscience and sense of journalistic responsibility that prevents you from hitting publish.”
Shan WangFebruary 14, 2018
Comfortable in its first language, this German business publisher hopes to build a global audience off its English edition
Part of Handelsblatt Global’s strategy is trying to be ruthlessly practical about its position in the market: “If you get an American reader, nobody would ever switch from The New York Times for us.”
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 13, 2018
Facebook’s Campbell Brown: “This is not about us trying to make everybody happy”
“If someone feels that being on Facebook is not good for your business, you shouldn’t be on Facebook. Let’s be clear about that…I don’t see us as the answer to the problem.”
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 13, 2018
Last blog standing, “last guy dancing”: How Jason Kottke is thinking about kottke.org at 20
“I am like a vaudevillian. I’m the last guy dancing on the stage, by myself, and everyone else has moved on to movies and television.”
Nicholas QuahFebruary 13, 2018
Today, Explained, explained: Vox enters the daily news podcast race with a comma-happy, personality-driven show
Plus: HBO buys in, ESPN brags condescendingly, big networks scale back, and Call Your Girlfriend plots its future. Also, gifs.
Shan WangFebruary 12, 2018
Snap brings its heat map feature out of the app. Will any news publishers want to use it?
Christine SchmidtFebruary 12, 2018
Here are the digital media features to watch during the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics
VR, AR, a podcast, messaging apps, Snapchat shows, voice devices, Uber rides, and more.
Liam CorcoranFebruary 12, 2018
Not all news site visitors are created equal. Schibsted is trying to predict the ones who will pay up
Across the sites where it’s currently in use, the company’s purchase prediction model has been able to identify groups of readers three to five times more likely than average to buy a subscription, and advertise offers to them differently.
Ricardo BiltonFebruary 9, 2018
With its new Olympics texting experiment, the Times is saying goodbye to SMS, hello to personalization
“What we’ve created is a bot-like exchange, but in the voice and tone of a person.”
Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 9, 2018
The far-right sharing fake news — or conservatives sharing conservative journalism?
Plus: The Brits come to the U.S. to grill tech execs, and spammers come to Instant Articles.
Christine SchmidtFebruary 8, 2018
DNAinfo Chicago will be reborn as Block Club Chicago, relying on blockchain and subscriptions instead of billionaires
“We wanted to focus on neighborhoods and we wanted to have a membership model. We didn’t get to do it our way at DNA, at least on the business side. So we said, ‘Let’s just do it our way now.'”
Christine SchmidtFebruary 8, 2018
Local TV news gets a $2.6 million boost from the Knight Foundation
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