This month, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about one particular essay about the “creator economy.” To those of us working in “old media,” the idea of a single person, armed with a brain, a laptop, and the ability to distribute to the whole internet has long been positioned as “the future.”
In this episode of News Take, News/Media Alliance President & CEO David Chavern talks with Eric Barnes, CEO of The Daily Memphian (Tennessee), about his experience over the last four years launching a nonprofit local newspaper.
On this episode of News Take, Alliance President & CEO David Chavern is joined by Rand Fishkin, cofounder and CEO of audience research software firm SparkToro, for a fascinating conversation about the big tech platforms, their algorithms, and how the Internet has evolved to favor only a handful of giant tech platforms today.
On this episode of News Take, Alliance President & CEO David Chavern talks with the authors of now well-known research throughout the industry on the phenomenon known as news deserts, Penny Muse Abernathy and Tim Franklin of the Medill School of Journalism’s Local News Initiative at Northwestern University.
News and magazine publishers have larger audiences than ever — but also need to create new products and distribution systems to drive a better future. ‘Expanding the View’ is designed to highlight interesting ideas and provoke some thinking.
News publishers and magazines have larger audiences than ever — but also need to create new products and distribution systems to drive a better future. ‘Expanding the View’ is designed to highlight interesting ideas and provoke some thinking.
Expanding the View is a monthly list of stories I’ve read in the last month to get you thinking. Examples of topics you’ll find here include things on Web3, digital business models and other topics that have the potential to intersect with news publishing.
Expanding the View is a monthly list of stories I’ve read in the last month to get you thinking. Examples of topics you’ll find here include things on Web3, digital business models and other topics that have the potential to intersect with news publishing.
Ken Doctor did a recent piece on “epiphanies” that caused me to think of a few of my own. Ken is right that the ultimate answer lies in the consistent production of great news content. But as we all know, quality local journalism can only continue if there is a business model to support it.
Liz Worthington, Director of Content Strategy at American Press Institute (API), manages a group of three who together help publishers create data-driven content strategies through API’s platform, Metrics for News.
