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Why you need to hire a dedicated salesperson

You may already have a solid team of journalists and specialists in technology and social media marketing. But that isn’t enough. You need to hire at least one person who specializes in sales of advertising, subscriptions, and other products. We’re going to discuss why you should do it, who you should hire, and how much […]

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How the press is struggling against ‘toxic’ disinformation

Facts and science don’t matter in the new media ecosystem What follows is the abstract of my paper just published by Comunicación y Hombre, of the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria. The emergence of search engines and social media networks in the past two decades created a new media ecosystem. It allowed the instantaneous creation, distribution, […]

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‘Pay what you can or what you want’

Giving users a choice can increase members, subscribers Lately I have seen several examples of news publications letting users decide the amount they pay for the information they receive. The goals, strategies, and tactics are different in each case. But one of them might be right for your news organization. In each case the model […]

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Create a community, not an audience

Building relationships is the key to generating revenue in digital media In this video you will learn how to build an online community, deepen the relationship with them, and finally monetize the relationship. Here are some articles with more and deeper information about the topic: These metrics predict which users will pay for news These […]

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These metrics predict which readers will pay for news

A cynic might say that Google’s current efforts to help news publishers is a public relations ploy to get good press and appease anti-monopoly regulators in Europe and the US. After all, Google has more than 30% of all digital advertising globally, followed closely by Facebook with 20%. And these two companies, more than any […]

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In Italy, a digital startup’s membership model takes off

Luca Sofri has been publishing Il Post for 11 years with the aim of producing quality journalism for a discerning audience. He believes Italian readers are looking for news they can trust. This is not easy to do in Italy, he told me in a Zoom call from Milan. His model of quality journalism is […]

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Do big journalism brands have a future? It depends

One of the big questions facing the journalism industry is whether the traditional brands have a future. An international panel of eight academic media industry experts mostly agreed that those brands can survive, as long as they change what they are doing, and fast. This panel of eight was discussing the impact of global crises […]

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