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elDiario.es, a startup in Spain, ranks among the leaders in audience and paid reader support in that country. James Breiner Originally published Jun 27, 2024 You’re reading the My News Biz newsletter. My goal is to help digital media entrepreneurs find viable business models. The 2024 Digital News Report of the Reuters Institute for the […]
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Growth isn’t always good for creating just societies. It’s important to create strong institutions as well.
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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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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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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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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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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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