AI
Newsroom transformation with AI
Nearly two years into the AI revolution, how are real newsrooms using AI?
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 we’re just paying the price of bungling the last digital transition. Let’s not repeat that mistake with the coming one.
digital journalism
Going Online: Be Brave (from 2008)
10 years I wrote something about restructuring editorial teams for digital, but lacked the courage to publish it. I should have found the courage.
death of print
The end of the printed Independent: the shock we all knew was coming
For years, those of us who have been thinking deeply about the digital translation have been asking the same question: > What happens when one of our national newspapers closes – or goes online only? Anyone who didn’t know that day was coming has either been sticking their head in
comics
Gosh has been selling comics in London for 30 years
30 years of selling comics in London [http://www.goshlondon.com/2016/02/gosh-its-our-30th-birthday/] Gosh, a London comics shop, is 30 years old: > So not a bad year for comics, and not a bad year for us: on the 14th February 1986, Gosh! Comics opened its doors for the
change management
The FT gets an innovation editor
The Financial Times has appointed a new innovation editor [http://aboutus.ft.com/2016/01/06/ft-appoints-deputy-editor-and-innovation-editor/#axzz3wOKxDpxR] John Thornhill moves from deputy editor to innovation editor. > Thornhill will oversee the FT’s award-winning global comment team to transform the way the FT commissions, edits and publishes commentary on
books
The digital responsibility of Generation X
Gen Xers – or, at least, those of us born before 1985 – have a responsibility, according to an interesting Quartz piece about Michael Harris [http://qz.com/252456/what-it-feels-like-to-be-the-last-generation-to-remember-life-before-the-internet/] : > Being in this situation puts us in a privileged position.”If we’re the last people in history to know life
comics
The Marvel comic that sells more digitally than in print
Here’s something else from outside the mainstream of publishing you might find interesting: > Ms Marvel recently went to its sixth printing, a rare accomplishment in comics today. But chatting with Marvel executives at San Diego Comic Con I discovered more. That it sells more in digital than print,
consumer magazines
The future of Future?
Private Frazer on the fate of Future [http://privatefraser.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/back-to-future/]: > Future’s future apparently lies in “the virtuous circle of engagement in two core content areas: reviews (when consumers are looking to make product purchase decisions and where we can derive ecommerce revenues) and
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. That’s partially because it’s marking season and I’m very busy right now, and partially because I’ve actually been publishing some
digital strategy
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 [http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/jan/21/tony-gallagher-telegraphmediagroup] – from a very Greensladian perspective… Given that there’
digital transition
Digital transition: publishers' staff delusion
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/11/skull.jpg] The PPA [http://www.ppa.co.uk]‘s CEO Barry McIlheney thinks that much of the work on the digital transition has been done: > He says he doesn’t hear publishers talking as much about the