The Financial Times and the Business Model that Works for Print
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A decade ago, John Ridding, CEO of Financial Times Group, made a bold call when asked if print news would still be the significant format in 10 years. “Digital delivery was developing fast, with the disruptors, led by Google and...
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Native Advertising and Fake News…Not Much Difference?
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Jim Weber, you’ve called out the emperor and his imaginary clothes. Well done.“I can only laugh when publishers bemoan the growth of fake news and then in the same breath gush about how native advertising is the future of digital...
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Are News Publishers Chasing a Future that Doesn’t Exist?
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Roger Fidler was used to being laughed at back in the 80s when he predicted the future of news. “It was not quite like Roger had descended from another planet,” a colleague of his once told Washington Post report Michael...
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Hope in the Impossible: Why One Reader Returned to Print News
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“I'm simply fed up with online news sites that provide more clutter and distractions than real content. They load slowly to boot.” That’s the sentiment of Rick Smith, the techwire editor of WRAL in Raleigh, N.C. Smith came to this...
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Keep that Golden Egg-laying Goose Happy
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Pursuing a print strategy with long-term potential makes more sense that focusing on short-term revenue, no matter how tempting that immediate gain looks. News publishers faced with declining newspaper sales have resorted to any number of strategies to keep their...
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Online News and the Rat in the Maze
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Bring back design hierarchy for online news, one digital journalist begs as he explains the importance of print as a delivery device. “I’ve been an online journalist for 20 years—and still, you’ll have to pry my newspaper from my cold...
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Apple News Leaves a Bad Taste for Publishers
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Since the launch of iOS 9, publishers have been less than thrilled with Apple’s news publishing platform. “Underwhelming.” That’s the word used off the record to describe one publisher’s experience with the latest iteration of Apple’s news feed, according to...
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In Distrust we Trust – Part Two
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Digital advertisers haven’t been able to move the needle on digital ad perceptions. Americans’ trust in the news media is at an all-time low, and our trust in digital advertising hasn’t improved a bit over the past two years either....
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In Distrust We Trust
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Annual Gallup poll shows our confidence in American media continues to slide. Okay, America, we have a trust issue. “Trust in the media remains at record low levels, according to a new report from the polling firm Gallup,” writes D....
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More Publishers Sign On to Apple News
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Plenty of publishers seem willing to gamble on the app-based news feed concept. What do you do if you’re a news publisher and your ads are at risk of being blocked on a massive scale? You do what several dozen...
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