A collection of 10 posts
Lucia Moses on how Mashable killed itself: The meme coverage that built Mashable was becoming commoditized. So Mashable used its new capital to hire Roberts and other pedigreed journalists. Soon, there were stories on terrorism and Ukraine leading the homepage,…
You may recall that a year ago, The Times did an unexpected thing: it backed away from 24 hour rolling news on its websites, and switched instead to an editions model. The big question: did it work? The answer, based…
Digiday has published the confessions of a “senior publishing executive at a U.K newspaper”. And it’s all “mea culpa”: The digital media industry has completely screwed up by pursuing scale for the sake of scale. There’s been…
Gawker claims to have got ahold of Buzzfeed’s books: Editorial budget In fiscal year 2011, BuzzFeed’s editorial budget was $858,780 In 2012, it was $4,724,608 In 2013, it was $11,739,790 In the first…
Well, this is a good quote: “We’ve sort of evolved to this bizarre thing where people sit within newsrooms and cover breaking events from afar,” Tinworth said. “Actually I think one of the things, particularly the big news organisations…
