Coronavirus
Are readers really seeking "good news"? Or are they actually after something else?
The novel coronavirus traffic bump is declining. Should we seek positive news, instead? Or is there another option?
editorial strategy
How Mashable lost its identity - and its way
Lucia Moses on how Mashable killed itself [https://digiday.com/media/mashables-fire-sale-shows-limits-vc-funding/]: > 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, a big change for
business models
Is The Times making its edition model work?
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 [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2016/03/times-digital-editions-relaunch.html] . The big question: did it work? The answer, based on
advertising
Newspapers' scale screw-up is no secret
Digiday has published the confessions of a “senior publishing executive at a U.K newspaper” [http://digiday.com/publishers/confessions-newspaper-publishing-exec-weve-screwed-pursuing-scale-sake-scale/] . 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 a relentless pursuit for
business models
The costs of running Buzzfeed
Gawker claims to have got ahold of Buzzfeed’s books [http://tktk.gawker.com/internal-documents-show-buzzfeed-s-skyrocketing-investm-1709816353] : > Editorial budget * In fiscal year 2011, BuzzFeed’s editorial budget was $858,780 [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2271007-buzzfeed-financial-documents.html#document/p20] * In 2012, it was $4,724,608 [https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/
editorial strategy
Journalists: get your liveblogging boots on the ground
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/09/liveblogging-team.jpg] Well, this is a good quote [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/12-liveblogging-tips-for-journalists/s2/a550338/] : > “We’ve sort of evolved to this bizarre thing where people sit within newsrooms and cover breaking events from afar,” Tinworth
Blogging
One big secret of journalism change management
Martin Couzins on modelling behaviour [http://itsdevelopmental.com/2012/modelling-behavior/]: > If you are the one who is trying to encourage others to try something out then a good place to start is to model the behavior ie actually use the tools and techniques you are helping others to adopt.
community management
The new integration: newsroom and developers - #newsrw
A panel discussion on the digital future chaired byKatie King, senior product manager, Portal & Partners, MSN UK Raju Narisetti, Wall Street Journal Digital If in 2012, if you’re still talking about integrating print and digital, you’re in deep, deep trouble. Good journalism matters – but experiencing that content
articles
Kill your antiquated article structure not your comments
David Higgerson published an interesting meditation on comments under articles yesterday [http://davidhiggerson.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/here-come-the-angry-brigade-are-comments-on-stories-more-hassle-than-they-are-worth/] . “Are comments under articles worth doing?” he asks, and flirts with the answer “no”, without coming to a definitive conclusion. The post, and the comments underneath (ironically) are well worth reading.
change management
Leading from the Social Media front
Love this article, as tweeted [https://twitter.com/ksablan/status/98447987285573633] by Kevin Sablan: > Unless a once-in-a-lifetime story is breaking in your community, the most urgent challenge facing every news organization today is making a swift and successful transformation to the digital future. Leading that transition is every editor’
editorial strategy
Can we use web metrics to improve print products?
Catching up on my RSS feeds after my holiday, I came across this post in Jeff Jarvis’s blog [http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/buzzmachine/~3/jShRrij4lsg/]. One bullet point in particular struck me: > *** Some readers are not worth saving.** One newspaper killed its stock tables, saved $1 million,