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.
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.
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.”
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.”
“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.”
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.”
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Ordway, Denise-Marie. "Cross-examining the network: The year in digital and social media research." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 2 Jan. 2018. Web. 24 May. 2022.
APA
Ordway, D. (2018, Jan. 2). Cross-examining the network: The year in digital and social media research. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 24, 2022, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/01/cross-examining-the-network-the-year-in-digital-and-social-media-research/
Chicago
Ordway, Denise-Marie. "Cross-examining the network: The year in digital and social media research." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 2, 2018. Accessed May 24, 2022. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/01/cross-examining-the-network-the-year-in-digital-and-social-media-research/.
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