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Ken DoctorMarch 28, 2019

Newsonomics: Patrick Soon-Shiong on the L.A. Times’ transmedia future, french-fry tweets, and modernizing the “newspaper” business

The billionaire owner on unions (“I think they did the unionize thing out of desperation”), esports (“We must start fighting for the 16-year-olds all the way to the 30-year-olds, because that’s not our demographic”), and hiring the intern.

Ken DoctorMarch 27, 2019

Newsonomics: Inside the new L.A. Times, a 100-year vision that bets on tech and top-notch journalism

It’s a few years behind its East Coast brethren in New York and Washington. But tens of millions in new investment and ambitious digital plans are showing a path back to its former prominence — and beyond.

Ken DoctorAugust 30, 2018

Newsonomics: The tariffs are gone, but the burden of print weighs heavier and heavier

The newspaper tariffs are dead. How big a difference will that make to those whose businesses still depends on dead trees?

H.G. WatsonAugust 27, 2018

24 Hours of Le Mange: An around-the-clock food feature helped this newspaper connect with its community

What’s the kind of story worth putting outside a hard paywall? The kind of civic storytelling that shows that you’re “covering the city like no one else.”

Shan WangAugust 22, 2018

So your news organization has real, paying digital subscribers. Now how do you keep them?

One finding: “Need-to-know material converts (related to how to live your life, understand the world), while nice-to-know (guides, arts, reviews) converts badly but is key for retention.”

Meena Lee and Sarah GuineeApril 17, 2018

The New York Times has signed up a lot of subscribers. Here’s how it plans to keep them.

“My team believes that by investing in the subscribers we have and making the subscription experience better and better, we’ll be able to help all parts of the subscription business.”

Anders HofsethApril 2, 2018

Emily Bell thinks public service media today has its most important role to play since World War II

“I think there’s a very viable long-term financial model for commercial media. But I don’t necessarily think that applies directly to journalism.”

Shan WangFebruary 22, 2018

After years of testing, The Wall Street Journal has built a paywall that bends to the individual reader

Non-subscribers visiting WSJ.com now get a score, based on dozens of signals, that indicates how likely they’ll be to subscribe. The paywall tightens or loosens accordingly: “The content you see is the output of the paywall, rather than an input.”

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?

Denise-Marie OrdwayJanuary 2, 2018

Cross-examining the network: The year in digital and social media research

Journalist’s Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here are what they consider 10 of the most important pieces of new research into digital and social media published in 2017.

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