David is the founder and Director of Spot.Us. He has written for Wired, Seed, Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. While working toward his master’s degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Cohn worked as the editor at newassignment.net, which focused on citizen journalism and ways news organizations could explore the social… [Read more…]
June 2, 2012
As we mentioned in our last post, marketing to niche audiences is a great way for general news pubs to rake in online dollars. But what about the flip side — paywalled aggregators? There haven’t been many to choose from, but a year and a half ago, The New York Times Co., The Washington Post… [Read more…]
June 2, 2012
Good news for paywall and subscription site execs: audience resistance to paywalls seems to be decreasing! According to a recent study of digital media professionals by DigiCareers, 42% said that they would research pricing if they hit a paywall, while 52% said they would immediately leave the site. While that’s not the most desirable number,… [Read more…]
June 2, 2012
Alan Rusbridger is a busy man on two sides of the Atlantic. The editor of the Guardian seems to be everywhere, writing, tweeting, and leading the paper’s ongoing coverage of the British phone hacking scandal that continues to pick off executives and editors of Rupert Murdoch’s News International. Meanwhile, on this side of the water,… [Read more…]
June 1, 2012
La elección de Ricardo Kirschbaum fue por unanimidad de los miembros del board del Global Editors Network (GEN) y ratificada por la Asamblea General celebrada en el mediodía de hoy en Paris. En su discurso al pleno de delegados, en el magnifico Hotel de Ville de la capital francesa, el Editor de Clarín señaló que… [Read more…]
May 31, 2012
By the end of the year, the Financial Times could have more digital subscribers than it sells print copies, FT.com‘s managing director Rob Grimshaw predicted this week during an on-stage interview with NewsCred‘s CEO Shafqat Islam as part of the Internet Week New York. According to Grimshaw, who has been heading the newspaper’s digital operations for the last four… [Read more…]
May 31, 2012
By Jessica Heslam and Christine McConville The New York Times [NYT] Co. plans to shut down the Boston Globe’s remaining suburban bureaus next month — another sign that the Big Apple company is setting the stage to sell the Hub broadsheet. An official within the Globe’s biggest union, the Boston Newspaper Guild, told the Herald… [Read more…]
May 31, 2012
The blow-by-blow details of the ouster of top New York Times [NYT] honcho Janet Robinson for defending The Boston Globe — reported in a behind-the-scenes expose in this week’s New York magazine — raise the odds that the local broadsheet may soon be put up for sale, media analysts said. “It does make it sound… [Read more…]
May 30, 2012
Postmedia announced Monday it will cease publishing Sunday newspapers, including at the Calgary Hera , which will produce its final Sunday edition July 29, publisher Guy Huntingford said Monday. There were no layoffs announced at the Herald, but 20 newsroom positions were cut at the Ottawa Citizen. The Edmonton Journal and Ottawa Citizen will also… [Read more…]
May 29, 2012
Postmedia Network Canada Corp., the owner of the several bigcity dailies across the country, said Monday it will cease publishing the Sunday editions of certain titles and fast-track a shift toward online distribution. The Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal and Ottawa Citizen will stop publishing on Sundays, the Toronto-based company said in internal memos to employees.… [Read more…]
May 28, 2012
Newspapers like the New York Times may be piling up revenue from their paywalls, and Warren Buffett may be asserting his undying commitment to the small-town publications he has just acquired, but there continue to be signs that the printing of news on dead trees does not have a great and glorious future — and… [Read more…]
May 28, 2012
The blow-by-blow details of the ouster of top New York Times honcho Janet Robinson for defending The Boston Globe — reported in a behindthe-scenes expose in this week’s New York magazine — raise the odds that the local broadsheet may soon be put up for sale, media analysts said. “It does make it sound more… [Read more…]
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