audience development
There's more to newspapers than news
You'll need more than news to build a great audience revenue model.
news
Why is online news still such a miserable experience?
Dave Winer asks a good question about the state of online news
solutions journalism
Solutions journalism: a possible antidote to news apathy and disengagement
A relentless stream of problem stories makes the world feel worse than it is, and makes people more susceptible to manipulation. Can solutions journalism reverse that?
reuters institute
Digital News Report 2018: traffic from — and trust in — social media on the decline
The new Digital News Report is out - and things are looking grim in the intersection of social media and news. Here's a couple of preliminary observations.
Facebook's approach to news is getting ever more elitist - and controlling
Facebook is about to start pumping millions into news publishers to create Facebook Watch as a viable video channel. That's really uncomfortable timing…
news
Hyperactive reporting is a problem. Let’s fix it.
Have we let the internet’s hype cycle shorten our attention span for big stories? Yes. And that’s a problem.
The dangerous ignorance at the heart of Facebook
The attitude Mark Zuckerberg is displaying towards news suggests a deep ignorance of the true dynamics of news and its role in society.
audience engagement
Facebook: our news figures don't include social video or posts without links
Do you remember that figures that Facebook have been quoting about news being 5% of newsfeed content? Buzzfeed went and asked Facebook to prove it. And they said “no” [https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/facebook-wont-release-its-5-of-news-feed-content-is-news] : > Facebook is refusing to release data to back up its claim that merely 5%
Facebook & news publishers: a rocky relationship
How are Facebook’s efforts to reach out to publishers [https://digiday.com/media/inside-facebook-team-thats-charged-keeping-publishers-happy/] going? > “To call this group a partnership group is a joke in and of itself,” one executive at a major publisher said. “It’s a complete misnomer. We’re having really meaningful conversations with
aggregation
Techmeme, and the opportunity in connecting the conversation
Has our lust for innovation made us move on from ideas too quickly? I’ve been mulling that over for most of the day, since I read Charlie Wurzel’s long piece on Gabe Rivera and Techmeme [https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/meet-the-man-who-shapes-techs-narrative] . Unless you’re a blogger of a
business models
Compass News: the latest attempt to build a Netflix for news
There’s a new journalism aggregator in town, called Compass – and it’s attempting to be a Netflix for news [http://www.compassnews.co.uk/]. Isolde Walters spoke to Matilde Giglio about the subscription-based app [https://www.girlwithoutaniche.com/home/2017/3/13/w10i9y1x2vrkxbu17qgziqhg26ord7] : > It’s a bit like
circulation
Reach of print newspapers falling fast
Just 31% of Brits get their news from print newspapers [http://www.talkingnewmedia.com/2015/12/16/ofcom-report-reveals-falling-readership-for-uk-print-newspapers-rdio-bids-farewell/] And that’s down from 40% a year ago. Worryingly, there’s a rise in those who don’t follow the news at all.