Nathalie Malinarich, editor for mobile and new formats at BBC News, shared her thoughts on the evolution of digital publishing in Nieman Lab’s excellent Predictions for Journalism 2020. She noted that news organizations are starting to get…
9 Quick Tips for Growing Reader Revenue and Subscriptions
In 2019, we seemed to pass the tipping point of the pivot to direct audience revenue. The strategy has been validated, we now know that readers are willing to pay for top quality content, and that asking…
Crosscut Is Shutting down the Comments Section – but They Have a Plan to Engage Audiences "More Fully Transparently and Meaningfully"
Here on the MobiLoud blog we’ve written quite a bit about comments sections and publisher communities. For example we interviewed Andrew Losowsky, head of The Coral Project about why you shouldn’t disable comments. So we’re always pretty…
Did the Financial times Reinvent the Model Business Model for Journalism?
Lionel Barber has spent 34 years at the FT, including 14 as editor. He’s now leaving the title after being awarded News Provider of the Year at the British Journalism Awards. Barber is really proud of what…
Will 2020 Be the Year We Kill the News Article?
Emily Withrow, R&D Director at Quartz, writes on Nieman lab that: “This year, we retire the news article as the default unit of journalism. It had a good run, but it’s a relic of distribution, audience, and…
Have We Reached Peak Newsletter? Nope!
We’ve heard the phrase “peak newsletter” tossed around a bit lately. With so many publishers launching them on every topic imaginable, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the market is saturated along with all our inboxes. Jacob…
Growing an Innovative Media Company for LGBTQ Women with Ebone Bell
A few weeks ago I’ve had the opportunity to interview Ebone Bell, the founder and Editor in Chief of Tagg magazine, a media company dedicated to serving the LGBTQ women community covering culture, news and events. They…
Everyone Is Getting in on the News Podcast Action, but Don’t Expect Them to save Publisher Ad Revenues
Podcasts are clearly hot right now. As Jacob Donnely writes in A Media Operator: I believe our industry is smart enough not to do a huge “pivot to audio,” it seems that everyone is launching their own…
Google Launches New Tool to Help Publishers Manage How Their Content Appears
If you’re a publisher who uses Google News, you’re probably familiar with Producer and Publisher Center. Google has now launched a tool that combines these two, merging their features into a single tool that will improve both…
Google’s BERT Is Being Used to Generate Top News Stories Carousels in the SERPS
As reported in Search Engine Journal, Google has started grouping related news articles together in carousels using BERT and other machine learning tools. The carousels will appear in the “top stories” section at the top of the…