This Week in Review: Google and the social search wars, and the Post’s in-house innovation critic
Plus: 'Truth vigilantes' and objectivity, debating the value of political journalism, unique paywall models, and the rest of the week's must-reads in the future of news.
The newsonomics of the magic formula for 2012
There's an algorithm out there, we can be sure. It's got all the components of business success for news-creating companies, each value carefully computed and relational to the others. Yet, approaching 2012, the algorithm hasn't been found. We have but shreds of numbers, beacons of numerals that portend models, but can't prove them out. 2011...
Josh Macht: Having two brands isn’t better than having one
We've written before about the new split-site web strategy of The Boston Globe. (That includes keeping the established Boston.com a free site, but building a new paid-only site called BostonGlobe.com that includes the print newspaper's content and a print-like experience.) The Globe's approach again raises age-old questions about how a news organization's print and digital...
The newsonomics of Yahoo Livestand
Those Pew research numbers — 11 percent of U.S. adults owning a tablet, tablet news-reading numbers off the charts — make everybody even hungrier. Yahoo is the latest to try to get in on the growing banquet of reading riches, with its long-awaited Livestand tablet news product launch Wednesday. It joins the summer-launched AOL Editions...
This Week in Review: Getting tablet news to pay, and WikiLeaks steps back to fight ‘blockade’
Plus: News Corp.'s shareholder meeting, USA Today tries an innovative data licensing strategy, and the rest of the week's big stories.
The newsonomics of NYT’s Sunday gain and paid content 2.0
And on the seventh day, they didn't rest; they sped up. Next Tuesday, look for The New York Times to announce its first Sunday print circulation gain...since 2006. Let three words soak in: Print. Circulation. Gain. Those are wonderful words to anyone in the newspaper business and a small encouraging sign of our turbulent times,...
What’s the Best Business Model for Metro Newspapers?
Metro daily newspapers have been in a long rut in the United States, with many retrenching, closing or flailing for a new digital business model while cutting editorial staff to the bone. Many papers are watching the pay walls at places li...
This Week in Review: A unique paywall plan in Boston, and ethics at TechCrunch and the Times
Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week's top stories about the future of news. Also this week: Facebook keeps inching toward Twitter with its new Subscribe feature, the growing News Corp. scandal, and other recommended reading.
This Week in Review: A unique paywall plan in Boston, and ethics at TechCrunch and the Times
Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week's top stories about the future of news. Also this week: Facebook keeps inching toward Twitter with its new Subscribe feature, the growing News Corp. scandal, and other recommended reading.
Financial Times Enjoys Life Beyond the App Store
Business content on MediaShift is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting edge, three semester Master of Arts in Journalism; a unique one semester Advanced Certificate in Entrepreneurial Jo...
How profitable is Glenn Beck’s new web TV venture?
Is Glenn Beck ready to make $100 million with his new subscriber-only web TV venture, or is he barely breaking even? The answer depends very much on who you ask. However, Beck's numbers don't look all that bad when compared to some new cable TV properties.
Will BostonGlobe.com give papers a blueprint to avoid Apple’s 30% cut?
When it became clear that The Boston Globe was getting ready to launch its new paywalled website, BostonGlobe.com, one of our first thoughts was to wonder what Dan Kennedy — dean of the Boston media critics — thought of the new site and new strategy. Here he takes a look from an app-centric point of...
