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Articles tagged scale (15)

Joshua BentonSeptember 11, 2024

With an expansion on the way, Ken Doctor’s Lookout thinks it has some answers to the local news crisis

After finding success — and a Pulitzer Prize — in Santa Cruz, Lookout aims to replicate its model in Oregon. “All of these playbooks are at least partially written. You sometimes hear people say, ‘Nobody’s figured it out yet.’ But this is all about execution.”

Joshua BentonApril 3, 2020

The Outline, an attempt to build a bolder kind of news site, appears to have met its end

A talented staff, good ideas, and some forward-thinking technology couldn’t overcome a muddled editorial vision — and the realities of how news sites make money in 2020.

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.”

Nicholas QuahJuly 11, 2017

How will we know when we’ve hit Peak Podcast? And are we there yet?

Plus: Gimlet gets more transparent about diversity, IAB tweaks its podcast upfront, and SoundCloud shrinks.

Andrew PhelpsApril 26, 2017

This is how The New York Times is using bots to create more one-to-one experiences with readers

“I’m not worried about this technology driving the humanity out of journalism. I’m really excited about the promise of technology bringing more humanity to journalism.” Also: a Michael Barbaro bot.

Joshua BentonNovember 18, 2015

Podcasting in 2015 feels a lot like blogging circa 2004: exciting, evolving, and trouble for incumbents

The same trends we saw a decade ago — professionalization on one hand, platformization on the other — sure seem to be playing out again.

Joshua BentonSeptember 1, 2015

As giant platforms rise, local news is getting crushed

The quest for scale, driven by the distribution power of a few enormous technology platforms, is killing the business case for local news. Will anything take its place?

Juan Antonio GinerJune 17, 2014

“From a news business to a networked business”: The FT pushes its workflows to digital

“The biggest challenge for the FT, we feel, lies not in its transition to digital, which can be achieved with web-savvy staff, but in the transition of the print staff to this ‘post-news’ method.”

Should The Washington Post, The New York Times, and other top publishers pool their video in a consortium?

This Week in Review: A judge deals the NSA a blow, and breaking down Patch’s fatal flaws

Plus: 60 Minutes produces a friendly story on the NSA, the ethics of holding stories, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news. Mark Coddington

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