Over a decade ago, The Guardian was a genuine innovator, launching a daily news podcast. It's revisiting that idea in 2018 - seemingly unaware that they've done it before.
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A collection of 9 posts
Süddeutsche Zeitung: selling the agile paywall with the right content
Another set of liveblogged notes from Digital Media Europe 2017. Typos, inaccuracy and howling crimes against grammar and syntax probable. Stefan Plöchinger, Digital Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Editor in-Chief, SZ.de Who are Süddeutsche Zeitung? They are the paper that…
Ekstra Bladet plans for Freemium 2.0
Another set of liveblogged notes from Digital Media Europe 2017. Typos, inaccuracy and howling crimes against grammar and syntax probable. Lisbeth Langwadt, Head of Paid Content, Ekstra Bladet – EKSTRA & Print Secrets to digital innovation… 1. You have to reorganise…
The new original sin of online publishing
John Battelle thinks we actually figured out online publishing a decade ago – and then we screwed it up. How? We handed power to the social networks: Again, for emphasis: despite all the whizzy bang-y social media we’ve invented these…
Quartz passes FT & Economist in unique visitors
Quartz continues to power ahead In an internal memo that Fortune managed to get hold of, publisher Jay Lauf said the site’s traffic rose by 65% in December to almost 17 million unique visitors, more than The Economist or…
Explainer journalism and digital transformation
You might have noted a lack of long form stuff on here in recent weeks. That’s partially because it’s marking season and I’m very busy right now, and partially because I’ve actually been publishing some long…
The Financial Times is a majority digital and mobile business
Two notable things from the FT’s 2013 results: The FT’s total circulation grew 8% year-on-year to 652,000 across print and online, the highest paying readership in its 126-year history. FT.com digital subscriptions grew 31% to 415,…
Changes afoot at The Telegraph: editor out, restructure in?
I don’t really have much to add to the story about the sudden departure of The Telegraph‘s editor Tony Gallagher. Roy Greenslade has the fullest account of Gallagher’s firing – from a very Greensladian perspective… Given that there’…