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Engaged Reading Digest: the subscriptions edition

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Engaged Reading Digest: the subscriptions edition

Five reads on subscriptions and membership models, to give you some hope about the future of journalism.

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Yes, Facebook is tracking you when you aren’t logged in

Not really a surprise, but it’s good to hear it confirmed.

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Sustainably profitable digital publishing - #newsrw

Panel discussion on sustainable business models, chaired by Kathryn Corrick, digital media consultant. Lucia Adams, The Times – When they launched a paywall, people predicted a disaster. But it hasn’t turned out that way, and now all the newspapers are trying to solve the

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#next11 #media - New metrics for a new media age

Warning: Liveblogging. Here be inaccuracy, errors and typos Pablo Metz How similar are the Union Flag and the Tricolore? Both flags… Bike and a ball? Not very. Expcept, they’re both things people buy for their kids. This is the problem data has right

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#next11 - Boon and Bane of Analytics

Warning: liveblogging. Here be error, inaccuracy and typos… Media track session on data-drive publishing… Host: Anitra Eggler Started as a journalist, became infected by the media fever, and ran several startups from the mid-90s. One principle: whereever there is an elephant in the room

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Getting our grubby paws on iPad subscriber data

Well, now, this is interesting, isn’t it? Although the idea of giving iPad owners a choice of whether or not to divulge their name, email and zipcode sent chills through some publishers, a report finds nearly 50 percent of people click the “allow”

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Facebook Comments: a social data honeytrap?

Facebook wants to be your comments service. A few weeks ago, it revamped its Facebook Comments service, and relaunched, grabbing sites like Techcrunch and GigaOm along the way. Facebook clearly has ambitions to be the social service for the web, and this is another

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Can we be honest about user data?

You know, the publishing business might not be doing itself any favours with its fervent opposition to the Apple subscription terms. The more posts like this that appear, the more our reputation diminishes: Put simply, publishers don’t want readers to opt in, because