digital transition

The Media Inflection Point: a manifesto for audience centricity Members Public

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.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
audience strategy

Going Online: Be Brave (from 2008) Members Public

10 years I wrote something about restructuring editorial teams for digital, but lacked the courage to publish it. I should have found the courage.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
digital journalism

The end of the printed Independent: the shock we all knew was coming Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
death of print

Gosh has been selling comics in London for 30 years Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
comics

The FT gets an innovation editor Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
change management

The digital responsibility of Generation X Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
books

The Marvel comic that sells more digitally than in print Members Public

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,

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
comics

The future of Future? Members Public

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

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
consumer magazines