How publishers are growing and retaining audiences during COVID-19 by @EstherKeziaT - Wed, Sep 30 2020

Verizon has been quietly scrambling to unload HuffPost as it grapples with continued losses at the left-leaning news and culture website, The Post has learned. The telecom giant — which acquired the site formerly known as the Huffington Post…

Mr Anderson RT @Gartenberg 'Verizon scrambling to unload HuffPost as losses mount' and yet seemed like such a natural fit at the time. To someone...

Are good reporters born — or made? Can you teach the curiosity that all good journalists possess? The persistence of the best reporting? The creativity of the most compelling stories? Every so often I hear a journalist say that you can't…

Mr Anderson RT @TimHarford 1/ An excellent blog post - explaining what curiosity looks like in practice for a journalist, and the habits of mind (or even checklists) we might use to develop it.

Does the current metrics-driven news landscape emerge from, and potentially reinforce historical racial inequality? On October 6 from 3 – 4 p.m. ET, join Angèle Christin, author of the new book Metrics at Work: Journalism and the…

Mr Anderson MT @zephora Journalism is complicated, especially when you start examining the field's relationship to both metrics and race. I'm hosting @AngeleChristin & @JosephATorres in a conversation about 'Metrics, Media, & Race' on 10/6 at 3PM ET:

In recent years, unionizing newsrooms has given journalism-focused media companies a bit more say over how their workplaces are run. But Defector Media is something else entirely. The group of 18 former Deadspin employees — who quit the…

Mr Anderson RT @JustinNXT 'Is it a little bit more stressful? Sure. But they're all taking a chance on each other, and they're taking a chance on me. So I gotta bet on myself, too'

The coronavirus crisis has been a challenging time for many media and publishing businesses. Some have struggled with severe declines in ad revenue, with events also proving challenging to maintain at pre-pandemic levels of profitability. But there…

Mr Anderson RT @EstherKeziaT Wrote something for a new org @OpsPub on how publishers are growing and retaining audiences during COVID-19. Examples from @qz, @TheAthletic and @ConversationUK, plus key takeaways

A virtual event hosted by Muck Rack and Mediabistro Muck Rack and Mediabistro are excited to partner to present a free virtual panel on September 30th at 5:00pm ET / 2:00pm PT on How to optimize your online presence and brand as a journalist in…

Mr Anderson MT @muckrack: We're partnering with @Mediabistro to present a free virtual panel on Sept 30 5pm ET. @sree & @IAmAshleyDunn will discuss their experiences, insights, and recommendations for building and managing your personal brand online as a journalist.