The worker-owned sports website released an admirably transparent annual report on Thursday. The report showed Defector brought in $3.8 million in its second year and that nearly every dollar came from readers.
“It’s a format that rewards a bit of journalistic intuition, as it’s almost impossible to build podcasts to just fit searches and platform algorithms.”
“Are we moving fast enough for the length of runway we have to lift off? Or do we need to, you know, keep paving and quickly build more runway? That’s the real question.”
In 2022, few pop-culture brands move the needle, so newspaper blue-bloods and recipe sites alike rally around Marvel Cinematic Universe content as their last stand.
The same-day cancellation rate likely includes subscribers who only wanted access to one article, or who felt the full paid experience was lacking after a quick look around. New data suggests some just really hate the idea of auto-renewal.
For local newspapers, print circulation has collapsed for every audience except retirees. That’s why the daily paper in The Villages, Florida (metro population 129,752) prints as many copies as the one in Atlanta (metro population 6,930,423).
Benton, Joshua. "For print newspapers, one Florida retirement community is a better market than Atlanta, St. Louis, or Portland." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 28 Jun. 2022. Web. 26 May. 2023.
APA
Benton, J. (2022, Jun. 28). For print newspapers, one Florida retirement community is a better market than Atlanta, St. Louis, or Portland. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 26, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/for-print-newspapers-one-florida-retirement-community-is-a-better-market-than-atlanta-st-louis-or-portland/
Chicago
Benton, Joshua. "For print newspapers, one Florida retirement community is a better market than Atlanta, St. Louis, or Portland." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified June 28, 2022. Accessed May 26, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/06/for-print-newspapers-one-florida-retirement-community-is-a-better-market-than-atlanta-st-louis-or-portland/.
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