Wed, Nov 14 2018

The path forward for premium media is seemingly clear: Put up a paywall. Digital advertising is a duopoly-dominated mess; any print or broadcast cross-subsidy you might have is declining at one speed or another. Your loyal core digital readers may…

Over the past few months, we've been working on the most significant expansion of Quartz since our launch. Today, for the first time, you can access these new offerings: a new app for the Quartz community and a new membership program to deepen your…

WhatsApp is paying a group of researchers to investigate how misinformation spreads on its platform. On Monday afternoon, the Facebook-owned company announced that it's awarding $50,000 each to 20 research projects from 11 countries, for a total of…

Electronic Frontier Foundation – Nov 13, 5:59 AM

San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and more than 70 human and digital rights groups called on Mark Zuckerberg today to add real transparency and accountability to Facebook's content removal process. Specifically, the…

Facebook failed to closely monitor device makers after granting them access to the personal data of hundreds of millions of people, according to a previously unreported disclosure to Congress last month. Facebook's loose oversight of the…

When Troy Young took over as president of Hearst Magazines in July, one of his to-do list items was looking at ways to streamline its magazine operations and integrate several of the previously separated print and digital teams. To that end, the…

Nieman Lab – Laura Hazard Owen – Oct 4, 2017

LINK: medium.com ➚ | Posted by: Laura Hazard Owen | November 13, 2018 If you're a news organization sending out email newsletters with Mailchimp, you probably know that the company offers some metrics so you can track how your newsletters…

The online advertising business continues to grow at double digit rates, according to the latest report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (a trade group for online advertisers and publishers). According to the report, which was prepared for…

Many news organizations are shifting their business models from advertising to audience revenue. This means asking for more money at a time when an increasing number of people have less. The model only works if they can appeal to and serve more…

New York Magazine was one of the first publishers to succeed at building separate digital identities for its verticals, including Vulture and The Cut. Its new digital subscription product, and the dynamic paywall that guards it, is designed to…

Digital Content Next (DCN), the publishing trade group that represents digital publishers such as The New York Times and Condé Nast, says it supports national privacy legislation, according to comments it has filed in response to a new…

S&P 500 executives are dropping blockchain buzzwords less on earnings calls and during presentations to analysts and investors. Analysts are also asking about it less. Why it matters: The hype was just that. The odds of a company turning blockchain…

Hans Rosling was a statistics guru. He spent his entire life promoting the use of data with animated charts to explore development issues and to share a fact-based……