Poynter: Taking down paywalls during COVID-19 is noble but illogical - Mon, Apr 6 2020

The Guardian

The publisher of the Daily Mirror, Daily Express and Daily Star newspapers is to furlough almost 1,000 employees, and its management, including the senior editorial team, will have pay slashed by a fifth. Reach, formerly known as Trinity Mirror…

Mr Anderson Sending out positive support to all of my friends at Reach (formerly Trinity Mirror) who are furloughed or having their pay cut during this period.

The Guardian

Everyone is learning how to live, how to work (where possible and necessary), how to be safe and simply how to be during this extraordinary and troubling era of Covid-19. The Guardian and Observer are learning too. With most staff working remotely…

Mr Anderson How they are responding to calls by readers to delete content that is overtaken by events.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson's retweet of an article blaming the US for infecting Wuhan with coronavirus went viral, viewed 160 million times within hours. But where did the story come from?

Mr Anderson Great regional coverage.

Not quite 3 1/2 years after its launch, The Outline — the design-forward, millennial-focused, consciously weird site that aspired to be “ a next-generation version of The New Yorker ” — is shutting down. Its executive…

Mr Anderson What was meant to be a groundbreaking site never caught on. It's shut down. Josh Topolsky, who launched the site, rubbished just about everyone else in the industry, but the difficult to use site suffered from a lack of editorial focus.

The New York Times has been turning its journalism into books in different ways for more than a century. (Here's a copy of “The New York Times Current History: The European War, Volume XIII,” published 1917.) The newspaper typically…

Imagine you operate a once-profitable business that has recently fallen on hard times. Revenue is down. Way down. Then, suddenly, there's a newfound interest in your product. Demand is up. You have an opportunity to bring back some of that lost…

This week, all staffers at the San Francisco Examiner and SF Weekly were notified that they'll be taking a 40% cut in hours and salary, even though more people are actually reading their stories. In fact, on a single day in March, the number of…

If service journalism has a time to shine, it's during a crisis. When things are going wrong, people need good, specific information to deal with the situation, they need to know that the information is trustworthy, and they need it fast —…