publishing strategy

Süddeutsche Zeitung: selling the agile paywall with the right content Members Public

Another set of liveblogged notes from Digital Media Europe 2017. Typos, inaccuracy and howling crimes against grammar and syntax probable. Stefan Plöchinger, Digital Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Editor in-Chief, SZ.de Who are Süddeutsche Zeitung [http://www.sueddeutsche.de]? They are the paper that got the Panama Papers [http://panamapapers.

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business models

Amedia: how to turn local news readers into subscribers Members Public

Norway’s Amedia is successfully converting local newspaper readers into digital subscribers. Here’s how they do it.

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amedia

Ekstra Bladet plans for Freemium 2.0 Members Public

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 – EKSTRA & Print Secrets to digital innovation… 1. You have to reorganise They used to have two silos at Ekstra Bladet [http:

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digital strategy

Zeit Online: hunting the millennial online – and offline. Members Public

I’m at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference [https://events.wan-ifra.org/events/digital-media-europe-2017] in Copenhagen for the next few days. This is the first of my liveblogged session notes from the event. Christian Röpke, CEO, ZEIT ONLINE Die Zeit [http://www.zeit.de/index] has a 500,000

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audience development

Ghost wants to be a publishing partner for 3 journalism startups - and help them find a business model Members Public

Ghost is looking to fund new journalism initiatives.

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blog platforms

Medium: big job cuts and a direction change Members Public

Ev Williams [https://blog.medium.com/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be#.blb0hupeb]: > I’ll start with the hard part: As of today, we are reducing our team by about one third — eliminating 50 jobs, mostly in sales, support, and other business functions. We are also changing our business model to more directly drive

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business models

Comments: commit to them, or get out Members Public

The Financial Times is using comments to engage in a constructive discussion around Brexit [https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/how-the-ft-uses-comments-and-reader-call-outs-to-engage-with-the-audience/s2/a692625/] . Lilah Raptopoulos, community manager at the FT.: > “Creating a hub where it was clear that we were asking and listening really improved the quality of the

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comments

The problem with ad blocker blocking Members Public

Here’s a photo of my morning workstation: On the left, my iPad happily showing a news story about the presidential debates from last night – and the #kenbone hashtag [http://deadline.com/2016/10/ken-bone-emerges-as-winner-of-hillary-vs-donald-ii-1201833855/] in particular. On the right, my MacBook Pro showing the same story – except it’s

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ad blockers