According to the director of Oxford University’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Rasmus Kleis Neilsen, publishers will need to start spending more money on technology and talent in 2022 if they want to make their businesses fit for a digital future. Takeaways Writing for...
New report explores both common and unconventional tactics to help publishers diversify their income opportunities In the world of online publishing, it takes more than high-quality content to make money. From advertising and affiliate marketing to premium content and subscriptions, publishers of all sizes are...
Founded in 2004, The Local provides news and essential information for foreign residents in nine European countries including France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Switzerland. Published solely in English, the title focuses on newsworthy tips and advice at a time when bureaucratic obstacles to living abroad...
1. Nobel peace prize awarded to 2 journalists In an era of increasing authoritarianism and swirling misinformation, Maria Ressa and Dmitri A Muratov, who lead independent news outlets in the Philippines and Russia, were honored for their work to hold leaders to account, wrote the NYT....
The Publisher’s Pandemic Roundtable Meets with Dominic Young Soon everyone will be going their separate ways for holidays and vacations, but our Publisher’s Pandemic Roundtable—Joe Berger, Bo Sacks, Samir Husni, Sherin Pierce, and me—took the opportunity to get together with Dominic Young, the UK-based founder...
Survey shows people more likely to trust local news produced on patch - and willing to pay average of £1.30 per month “People say they’re willing to pay for content” is hardly a reassuring headline to be opening 2022 with. The gap between what the...
What’s New in Publishing is proud to present Paywalls for Publishers, a special insight report sponsored by Sovrn and written by respected media journalist, Faisal Kalim. This free report aims to help you formulate an effective paywall strategy via insights and examples that have worked...
Glancing back over the past year before we stride into the next When we were writing our takeaways of 2020 a year ago, we never imagined that the pandemic would still have such a big effect on the publishing industry in 2021. The news cycle may look...
AMP has irreparably damaged publishers’ trust in Google-led initiatives There’s currently an antitrust lawsuit against Google, specifically involving their AMP project. It alleges, among other things, that AMP pages brought 40% less revenue to publishers, and that the tech giant throttles the load time of...
This article is an excerpt from our special insight report, Paywalls for Publishers. This free-to-download report aims to help you formulate an effective paywall strategy via insights and examples that have worked well for other publishers. The guide also examines how you can leverage your...
This article is an excerpt from our special insight report, Paywalls for Publishers. This free-to-download report aims to help you formulate an effective paywall strategy via insights and examples that have worked well for other publishers. The guide also examines how you can leverage your...
“These new technologies are the new printing press” “Machine learning, automation, personalisation, data analysis and natural language processing tools can supercharge the modern news media,” says Charlie Beckett, Head of the Global JournalismAI project. They are all a part of artificial intelligence. However, being a...
If you work in news publishing, there’s a good chance you already use some type of tags in your published content. After all, Parse.ly found that 70 percent of digital media publishers use tags and that was back in 2015. The number is surely even...
USA Today is getting a paywall. Who’s the audience for it? In this week’s episode of the podcast Chris Duncan corrects his much-shared but misattributed statement that only ten English-language global newsbrands can sustain themselves on the limited amount of subscription revenue. Despite that it’s...
Our Pandemic Roundtable—Bo Sacks, Samir Husni, Joe Berger, Sherin Pierce, Gemma Peckham, and me--welcomed James Hewes of FIPP to talk about the diversification of publishing strategies, the fate of events, and the roaring twenties, touching on Samir and Bo’s tendency to agree or disagree along...
Google Chrome third-party cookies block delayed until 2023 For FLoC’s Sake. Google has just announced that it is delaying plans to phase out third-party cookies in the Chrome browser until late 2023, more than a year later than originally planned. In other words, the cookiepocalypse...
The must-read publishing stories you may have missed this week Your Digital News Report 2021 round-up The Reuters Institute's hotly-anticipated annual report launched this week. Unless you've been exceptionally organised, it's unlikely you've managed to read it cover to cover yet. So we've done the...
Content-for-free was probably digital publishing’s biggest mistake, but smart publishers are now making amends by gating access to their most valuable information assets. Many are earning real returns on their content-creation investments. Context Once seen as a radical, maybe even reckless act, putting up a...
Publishers are figuring out how to generate revenue with data, machine learning The COVID-19 crisis has accelerated trends away from advertising and toward reader revenue for news publishers. And now everyone is talking about how to use data from online reader behavior and tastes to...
The Membership Economy author Robbie Kellman Baxter on developing irresistible direct-to-consumer offers In this week’s episode we hear from Robbie Kellman Baxter, an author and consultant with over twenty years of experience in subscription pricing, digital community, and freemium. Robbie started working with membership and...
