Young Subscribers Flocking to Paid News Content
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“Why should I pay for news when I can get it for free online?”Apparently, the Millennial generation has asked that question and found a really good answer, because they are subscribing to paid news services at a faster rate than...
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Want Newsstand Success? Think Mission First
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When Saturday Evening Post changed the direction of their editorial mission in the late ‘50s, the results were fast and profound.“A change in editorial mission can kill even the most successful titles, as pointed out in The Curtis Caper by...
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Malyarov’s Open Letter to Everyone Looking for Real Journalism
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“Standing up for facts is a kind of patriotic act, and a necessary one.”Those words from Dartmouth College professor Brendan Nyhan close a thought-provoking piece by Nikolay Malyarov in Fipp.Malyarov’s “open letter to everyone looking for real journalism” makes the...
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Why Journalism Should be Grateful for the Current War on Media
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John Palumbo, head of Rhode Island Monthly, waxed nostalgic in a recent post in Folio. “My journalism advisor in college was a crusty seasoned newspaper guy who had retired to academia. Often, when reviewing classwork, he would look over his...
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HBR, What’s the Big Idea?
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Is the continuing wave of digital advancement poised to cause more disruption for publishers? Not from where Josh Macht sits. The executive VP of the Harvard Business Review recently spoke to John Watkins about the unique opportunities facing print publishers...
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Native Advertising and Fake News…Not Much Difference?
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Jim Weber, you’ve called out the emperor and his imaginary clothes. Well done.“I can only laugh when publishers bemoan the growth of fake news and then in the same breath gush about how native advertising is the future of digital...
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Can Algorithms Replace Human Editors?
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Facebook’s trending news algorithm failed spectacularly; other sites are still giving it a try. Are they misguided? Can an algorithm replace human editors when it comes to curating a news feed? The question is making the rounds in the industry,...
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The Risk is Real: How Facebook is Destroying Journalism
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By walling up readers and luring away advertisers, the platform is putting the Fourth Estate in dire straits. Traditional journalism faces a risk so severe that some are calling it the end of the Fourth Estate as we know it....
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Crowdfunded Journalism and the Rise of Publicly Driven News 
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Projects funded through Kickstarter represent a growing trend in covering the news that truly matters to readers. As major news outlets grow more and more entrenched in the sound-bite, always-on news cycle, there is a small but growing trend toward...
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How Facebook is Eating Journalism
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“Although it may seem like good news for media companies that total digital ad spending swelled 20 percent last year, it’s mostly good news for Facebook.” U.S. consumers are a skeptical bunch when it comes to their media, giving news...
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