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    Articles tagged Charlotte Agenda (12)

    Sarah ScireJune 7, 2021
    Ted Williams proved local news can be profitable. Now, he’ll try to replicate the success for Axios.
    “As time goes on, even when you’re financially successful in media, the tendency is to do more and more stuff. If I look at media companies who are poorly run, everyone is really busy, stressed out, and they’re not making money.”
    Joshua BentonAugust 6, 2020
    In the arena: Ken Doctor is moving from “media analyst” to “media CEO” with Lookout, his plan for quality local news
    Lookout doesn’t want its local news sites to be a supplement or alternative to the local daily. They aim to be the news source of record in their communities, outgunning their shrunken newsprint rivals from Day 1.
    Ken DoctorMarch 31, 2020
    Newsonomics: Tomorrow’s life-or-death decisions for newspapers are suddenly today’s, thanks to coronavirus
    By gutting local advertising overnight, COVID-19 has accelerated strategies — like cutting print days, corporate consolidation, or even closing down offices — that publishers had hoped could wait a while longer.
    Ken DoctorMarch 27, 2020
    Newsonomics: What was once unthinkable is quickly becoming reality in the destruction of local news
    The coronavirus pandemic is proving the value of local news to millions of readers, driving up subscriptions. But the advertising collapse is knee-buckling. “If it’s a couple of months, we’ll make it through. If it’s six months, all bets are off.”
    Christine SchmidtNovember 7, 2018
    Can this network of lit-to-be-local newsletters unlock younger civic engagement?
    6AM runs six sites in four states across the Southeast, in areas “where they are not big enough to have multiple daily papers, yet they are big enough to have a huge life force and a huge heart.”
    Ken DoctorMarch 9, 2018
    Newsonomics: Is Tronc due for a crash? And a few other questions about this busy week in the news business
    Plus: Digital First’s owner gets sued for alleged bad behavior, The Athletic looks to get huge, and Advance newspapers start poking at paywalls.
    Ken DoctorMarch 8, 2017
    Newsonomics: With a cross-country merger, Spirited Media aims to build a nationwide digital local news chain
    After combining with Denverite, the company behind Billy Penn and The Incline hopes to prove its events-heavy model can work in a dozen or more cities.
    The Raleigh Agenda is shutting down
    Joseph LichtermanOctober 24, 2016
    From East Coast to West Coast: The company behind Miami’s The New Tropic is expanding to Seattle
    WhereBy.Us is one of the most interesting digital startups working in the local news space. After starting in Florida, it’s launching The Evergrey in Seattle, and it has its eye on additional markets.
    Ricardo BiltonAugust 4, 2016
    On track to bring in $850,000 this year, the profitable Charlotte Agenda says its model is working
    “For global media, reaching scale is the hardest thing. In local, making money is the hardest thing. Delaying the hard thing makes for a crappier company.”
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