The Realty of Publishing in 2019 — 5 Truths for Publishers
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It’s increasingly (and sometimes painfully) obvious that the only way to succeed in publishing today is to keep a firm focus on your readers. We’ve been preaching about this audience-first approach for several years now, and seeing the results when...
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Publishing in 2019 — Fueling the Plane in Mid-air
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Refueling in mid-air – that is the analogy Julia Raphaely, CEO of Associated Media Publishing in South Africa, gives to the evolution of publishing since the digital disruption. “The magazine industry has been totally disrupted by technology,” Raphaely says in...
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Publishers are Winning Hearts … and Stomachs … with Dining Experiences
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You’ll never look at a mall food court the same way after reading this. According to Kayleigh Barber in Folio:, several media brands are launching dining experiences as a way to provide a new, deeper touch point for their audiences....
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BoSacks on Why Disruption is Our New Normal – and How We Can Thrive There
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Is the publishing industry finally settling down, after years of chaos and disruption? As nice as it might be to believe that, Bo Sacks says it’s not true. “As I sit here in the industry analyst's seat, I see the...
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Condé Nast to Put All Their Titles Behind Paywalls by End of This Year
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Three years ago, it was evident that Condé Nast was somehow defying the so-called digital erosion. At the time, Nicholas Coleridge said his company’s sales had held up well, and the feared “demise” of the print magazine hadn’t materialized.  “Ninety percent...
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D. Eadward Tree Riffs on 6 Trends that Sum up Publishing in 2018
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It was quite a year to be in publishing. Or as D. Eadward Tree writes in Publishing Executive, “What a crazy, up-and-down year this has been in publishing!”  The always interesting (and often prescient) Tree points out three pairs of...
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A Reality Check for Online Subscription-focused Publishers 
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There’s been a lot of talk this year about paid digital content as a viable revenue stream for news media. We certainly see evidence of the publishers that are getting paid content right. The shift away from ad-supported content to...
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Ditching Instant Articles? You’re Not Alone
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Question: What do Cosmopolitan, CBS News, The Onion, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Weather Channel all have in common? Answer: They were all initial partners in Facebook’s Instant Articles when it launched in 2015,...
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Buzzfeed Lays off 100 and Ad-funded Online Journalism Takes its Lumps
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There’s a group of 20 or so journalists in the UK suddenly available for hire. No, they weren’t laid off from a struggling print newspaper. Rather, they’ve been cut from the editorial staff at Buzzfeed, part of a purge of...
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3 Tough Truths Publishers Must Understand for 2018 
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It’s an industry at the crossroads. Whether you are thriving, struggling, or somewhere in between, the publishing industry is facing a pivotal year, according to Keith Sibson in Publishing Executive.“Everyone agrees 2018 will be a year of significant change, but...
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