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Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 5, 2019

The Atlantic (re)joins the metered paywall club, with digital subscriptions starting at $49.99/year

You’ll get five free stories a month; after that, you’ll be asked to pay up.

Emily Goligoski and Marisa Mazria KatzSeptember 4, 2019

The journalism industry needs to invest in childcare, especially for conferences

Arranging childcare for work-related travel can be an expensive nightmare. There is a better way.

Styli CharalambousAugust 29, 2019

“At 7,000 members our lives are already changed for the better”: How the Daily Maverick developed its membership program

“Our weekly Insider meetings are attended by the editor-in-chief, CEO, membership manager, product manager, support manager, developer, marketing and design team, with occasional drop-ins from finance and events team reps. Of the 10 regular attendees, only three of those positions existed before the decision to move into membership.”

Christine SchmidtAugust 28, 2019

How publishers are cutting print days — and not losing (too many) subscribers

“The key is the consumer will let you know when they’re done with the print product. Don’t prematurely yank it from them.”

“The tragedy of digital media…is that the people posing as the experts know less about how to make money than their employees, to whom they won’t listen.”

Christine SchmidtAugust 22, 2019

Three years into nonprofit ownership, The Philadelphia Inquirer is still trying to chart its future

Buyouts, rebranding, good journalism, and a vision still in progress: The Philadelphia Inquirer has had quite a summer. The metro newspaper business is still tough, even without a hedge fund or private equity pulling the strings.

Christine SchmidtAugust 21, 2019

The Boston Globe continues its regional expansion experiment, with students in a suburb

“Investigative reporting is great to have, but first we need the basics — and we’re no longer getting them.”

Christine SchmidtAugust 13, 2019

Who works best in a revenue development role? Here’s what these local news organizations have found

It’s “hard to ask for money if you don’t believe in what it’s being spent on.”

Laura Hazard OwenAugust 13, 2019

Tighten up that paywall! (And some other lessons from a study of 500 newspaper publishers)

“The publishers that reported more than 6 percent of unique visitors reaching their stop threshold had ‘thriving’ digital subscription businesses.”

The unions are (still) coming, and now starting to bargain together

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