“On most days of the week, I’m competing with them.” But when the situation’s right, local news outlets are using one another to augment their own resources.
Two companies with similar editorial values and brands that mostly complement instead of overlap. This is the kind of smart merger we should see more of.
This might be a rare instance of the goals of a platform genuinely aligning with the goals of a publisher — or another case of publishers’ revenue streams being at the mercy of a tech company’s priorities.
New York magazine and Quartz both now want readers to pay up. How deep into their pockets will even dedicated news consumers go for a second (or third or fourth) read?
Rather than create geographic diversity, digital news has pushed the industry into a few tight clusters. That has real impacts on the journalism we get.
Welsh, Madeline. "So a hacker brought down your news site. Now what? New York magazine found out today." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 27 Jul. 2015. Web. 13 Aug. 2020.
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Welsh, M. (2015, Jul. 27). So a hacker brought down your news site. Now what? New York magazine found out today. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved August 13, 2020, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/07/so-a-hacker-brought-down-your-news-site-now-what-new-york-magazine-found-out-today/
Chicago
Welsh, Madeline. "So a hacker brought down your news site. Now what? New York magazine found out today." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified July 27, 2015. Accessed August 13, 2020. https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/07/so-a-hacker-brought-down-your-news-site-now-what-new-york-magazine-found-out-today/.
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