AI
Media & AI: exponential change is here
The media industry has been trapped in digital disruption for two decades. AI is only going to accelerate that change. Buckle up.
Journalism
Six insightful reactions to the Digital News Report 2025
In amongst the relentless self-promotion, there are gems of wisdom to be found in LinkedInâŠ
Vice
The second age of digital journalism is over
Vice is the latest digital player to collapse. But the phoenix of the third era of digital media is being birthed in the ashes of the social web age.
audience strategy
The Media Inflection Point: a manifesto for audience centricity
The doomsayers are out in force. Journalism is dead, they say. Just look at the job losses, the titles closing. But weâre just paying the price of bungling the last digital transition. Letâs not repeat that mistake with the coming one.
podcasting
The Guardian squandered its institutional knowledge of podcasts
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.
business models
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, SĂŒddeutsche Zeitung and Editor in-Chief, SZ.de Who are SĂŒddeutsche Zeitung [http://www.sueddeutsche.de]? They are the paper that got the Panama Papers [http://panamapapers.
digital strategy
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 â EKSTRA & Print Secrets to digital innovation⊠1. You have to reorganise They used to have two silos at Ekstra Bladet [http:
analytics
The new original sin of online publishing
John Battelle thinks we actually figured out online publishing a decade ago â and then we screwed it up. How? We handed power to the social networks [https://shift.newco.co/we-can-fix-this-f-cking-mess-bf6595ac6ccd#.f5u7l6i6x]: > Again, for emphasis: despite all the whizzy bang-y social media weâve invented these past ten years,
digital strategy
Quartz passes FT & Economist in unique visitors
Quartz continues to power ahead [http://fortune.com/2016/01/21/quartz-growth/] > In an internal memo that Fortune managed to get hold of, publisher Jay Lauf said the siteâs traffic rose by 65% in December to almost 17 million unique visitors, more than The Economist or the Financial
content strategy
Explainer journalism and digital transformation
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/05/bw-blogging-3751.html] You might have noted a lack of long form stuff on here in recent weeks. Thatâs partially because itâs marking season and Iâm very busy right now, and partially because Iâve actually been publishing some
business models
The Financial Times is a majority digital and mobile business
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/Anish-Kapoor7-3574.html] Two notable things from the FTâs 2013 results [http://aboutus.ft.com/2014/02/28/67012/#axzz2ubXzXlYB]: > The FTâs total circulation grew 8% year-on-year to 652,000 across print and online, the highest paying readership in
digital strategy
Changes afoot at The Telegraph: editor out, restructure in?
I donât really have much to add to the story about the sudden departure of The Telegraphâs editor Tony Gallagher. Roy Greenslade has the fullest account of Gallagherâs firing [http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jan/21/tony-gallagher-telegraphmediagroup] â from a very Greensladian perspective⊠Given that thereâ