One of the biggest problems facing news publications over the past decade has been the fact that digital publishers have swallowed a huge chunk of the profits. The major tech platforms—Facebook, Google, Apple—largely controlled how much traffic a news site would get, and served as …
When TechCrunch shuttered its subscription product last month, the abrupt closure rattled the news industry, triggering fears that reader revenue products, and the stability they provide, were at risk of backsliding. But subscription data from multiple firms, as well as interviews with digital subscription experts, …
Last month, Condé Nast announced that Pitchfork, the music publication it acquired in 2015, would be moved under GQ, the men’s fashion magazine, resulting in the layoffs of its top editors—including its editor in chief, Puja Patel—and many long-term staff. Semafor media reporter Maxwell Tani, …
Since TVNewsCheck announced Monday it has paused publishing to address a cash flow shortage, we’ve been inundated by phone calls, emails and text messages from broadcasters asking how they can help. We are touched, humbled and honored by this response. At the risk of sounding like a …
It’s been a rough start to the year for news media. Record layoffs in January have piled on top of years of decline at newspapers, especially at the local level. The explanations are diverse and complicated, but near the top is the impact of online …
Twitter had been our place. Where journalists gathered and pored over news in as near to real time as possible. Its peak was, perhaps, the Arab Spring in 2011—a time when we all had a rosier view of social media’s impact on democracy. (It was …
For the past 18 years, TVNewsCheck has been the broadcasting industry’s essential source for continuously updated news, analysis and opinion, but as of today’s AM newsletter, we must put that service on hold. It’s no secret that the media industry is facing the most challenging environment …
Hearst Television’s Very Local streaming service launched in Sept. 2021, but it has already produced over 500 original episodes across a raft of genres — destination shows, contests, docuseries and true crime among them. The trick has been shooting fast and on a lean budget, tapping …
It’s no easy task to cover your community when people who think civil war is inevitable show up at protests and political rallies. It’s hard to inform the public when […] The post Reporting on people with extreme views? Ditch the shortcuts. appeared first on Poynter.
A Columbia Journalism Review column by a noted journalism leader argues for the resurrection of the cops beat as a way of improving news coverage of law enforcement. When news […] The post Better relationships with cops won’t help journalists cover crime appeared first on Poynter.
A lifetime ago when I was a program director in Washington, D.C., Byron Allen was one of the people who often called to pitch new shows. Unlike the major syndicators, whose huge budgets allowed them to wine and dine program buyers, Byron was an independent who …
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