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The new ecosystem of small news organizations continues to evolve at breathtaking speed. When you consider that it has been only four years since the news industry’s business model went into free fall, the number of new organizations and their quality are impressive. Also impressive is the financial support that they have attracted. J-Lab has […]
Read More »I came away from reading the State of the News Media in 2011 with the sense that newspapers in particular are being left farther behind by all of the advances in technology and payment systems. One example is Apple. Although it is selling subscriptions to publications on its iTunes platform, it is taking 30% of […]
Read More »(La versión en español se encuentra aquí.) The blessing and the curse of the web is that everything is measurable. For reporters working in newsrooms that measure the traffic of articles on a minute-to-minute basis, it can be discouraging to see fluff trump substance. In some newsrooms, reporters are competing for raises and bonuses based […]
Read More »(Para leer una versión de esta nota en español, pulse aquí.) Somebody brilliant said that, and if we need any proof we need look no further than a recent study by Comscore and the Newspaper Association of America. The data show that the 103 million unique users of newspaper sites in September spent an average […]
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