Global revolution: digital media startups rebuild trust, amplify new voices
Media that hire at least one full-time person to do marketing and sales produce four to six times more revenue than those that don’t.
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4 design trends that dictate whether people adopt or drop your digital product or service
Make your users’ experience as easy as possible; if you frustrate them, they will leave. You’re reading the My News Biz newsletter, which we send every other Thursday. Our goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. This week our guest collaborator is David LaFontaine. He is a Lead UX designer and […]
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Embarrassing to admit: I avoid (some) news
I’m part of a worldwide trend, with women and men showing different tendencies James Breiner It’s a big event in journalism when the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism releases its annual Digital News Report. This year’s edition had loads of data on “news avoidance,” or people actively avoiding news. (Survey methodology here.) A […]
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Wikipedia is the greatest online service created in the internet age. And it’s not for sale.
It’s free, global, non-profit, and crowd-sourced; it strives for a neutral stance in a media world filled with trolls, polarization, and automated disinformation James Breiner The value of trust It’s hard to find information you can trust these days. Powerful algorithm-driven marketing machines flood us with news and reviews about everything from pizza to politics, […]
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A local news oasis expands in NW England
Manchester Mill’s newsletters generate paid subscribers and 95% of revenue James Breiner ‘In terrible shape’ Joshi Herrmann and Manchester Mill caught my attention in February when he testified with two competitors before a media committee of the UK’s House of Lords. The committee had questions about the quality and impact of local news coverage. His two competitors […]
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‘News media are built in moments of crisis’
Ukrainian outlets innovate amid blackouts and bombings, deploy weapons of ‘information war’ against Russian disinformation Originally published on My New Biz, May 23, 2024 The Kyiv Independent was launched in 2021 when a group of journalists at the Kyiv Post were fired for protesting editorial interference by the new owner. Three years later, The Independent […]
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A lost job sparks a local news startup
Meet the entrepreneur who is building trustworthy journalism in Romania Alex Enășescu launched a newsletter and website focused on news about his hometown, Iasi, Romania, in 2021. We began a conversation on Substack when he commented on one of my posts. I thought his story would inspire other digital media entrepreneurs. This interview was done […]
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