stock and flow
Essential evergreen content, the Substack revenue question and the future of student media: this week’s key links Paid Members Public
A digital basic people still struggle with, some thoughts on the newsletter opportunity — and an influencer's façade crumbles…
Beyond news: understanding the role of archives in journalism businesses Paid Members Public
Most news publishers are terrible at maintaining their archives. But their are solid business and journalistic reasons for doing so.
Tom Petty, from News UK's archives Paid Members Public
This is lovely: > R.I.P Tom Petty, scanning negs from archive today from a London visit in the 1990's...#TomPetty [https://twitter.com/hashtag/TomPetty?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] #TomPettyRIP [https://twitter.com/hashtag/TomPettyRIP?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] #travelingwilburys
The Economist on the economics of cartooning Paid Members Public
The Economist have been posting some older, evergreen (or “stock” content, for regular readers…) on Medium. The piece on cartooning is particularly worth reading [https://medium.com/the-economist/how-the-internet-unleashed-a-burst-of-cartooning-creativity-45b9170e0c3b?curator=MediaREDEF#.51ep116a7] : > Cartoons go way back before newspapers. They have their origins in the caricatures and illustrations of early
What happens to your traffic if you stop publishing - and update old articles? Paid Members Public
What happens when you stop publishing new material and take a hard, professional look at your archives? The Buffer team decided to find out [https://stories.buffer.com/we-stopped-publishing-new-blog-posts-for-one-month-heres-what-happened-78380b1c364f#.21nf009mb] : > Having not published original content on the blog for 30 days, we saw only a 4 percent dip in
Vox's evergreen journalism back in stock Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/01/evergreen-housing.jpg] Vox remains one of the most interesting experiments in digital journalism , because it’s so very aggressive in stepping away from the “flow” of traditional print news, and into creating “stock” evergreen content [https://www.journalism.co.
