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Articles tagged The Outline (10)

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.

Ken DoctorApril 18, 2019

Newsonomics: Bryan Goldberg wants to build Bustle into the “Meredith of the digital age”

“I think the hard part for something like Esquire or Harper’s Bazaar in digital — even to some extent Vogue — is that you get into the scale game. Digital demands greater scale. I just don’t know how many men are trying to figure out if corduroy is back in fashion.”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 11, 2018

The Outline built itself on being “weird.” But is it weird enough to survive?

“We’re not the enemy. This is a really shitty industry for writers.”

Nicholas QuahJanuary 16, 2018

Who needs video? Slate is pivoting to audio, and making real money doing it

Plus: WBEZ tries to turn a podcast into a franchise, Science Friday joins WNYC Studios, and Gimlet opens up the HBO playbook.

Nicholas QuahAugust 22, 2017

The daily podcaster’s choice: Try to fit in listeners’ crowded mornings or tackle the evening commute?

Plus: Radiotopia’s Millennial comes to a close, another podcast-to-TV adaptation, and reaching the growing audience of young, middle-class Latinos.

Nicholas QuahApril 18, 2017

“If a Serial episode was a mountain peak, S-Town was the Himalayas”

Plus: Civics 101 expands its syllabus, an Apple tease, a new kind of daily news podcast, and Midroll tightens up its brands.

Nicholas QuahDecember 6, 2016

Hot Pod: Macmillan’s new network shows how podcasts can be a logical next step for book publishers

Plus: “The number of potential distribution points for on-demand audio is kinda getting out of hand.”

Josh Topolsky’s The Outline officially launches and it burns the eyes (but the ad experience does look cool)

Nicholas QuahOctober 25, 2016

Hot Pod: What will happen to the election podcast boom on Nov. 9?

Plus: Radiotopia finds expanding a donor base a different challenge than starting one, NPR refocuses for innovation, and The New York Times reaches its youngest audience ever with podcasts.

Ken DoctorAugust 8, 2016

Newsonomics: Sketching in the details of Josh Topolsky’s new Outline

“Being outside looking in, to me, is quite important. I think that, for the audience and also for a lot of the people involved in this, it’s a lifelong feeling of trying to make sense of a world that you’re not necessarily inside of or a part of.”