Credit: The Audiencers / Poool / Seb Higgins News Five audience growth and revenue strategies from outside the UK How do you move print readers to digital? Are there other ways to hold on to subscribers besides a last-ditch deal? By Jacob Granger • 4 min read
Credit: Screenshot via Parliamentlive.tv News Five key takeaways from the UK select committee on the future of news News executives say that the industry is facing pressure from all directions: generative AI, the business model and relationships with big tech companies. But not everyone agrees on solutions By Jacob Granger • 5 min read
Credit: Photo by Per Lööv on Unsplash News Business model scheme for European media startups launches IPI provides up to €15k of funding and expert coaching for media ventures that can better serve diverse audiences By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
Credit: Image by Hannah Edgman from Pixabay News What will be the lasting legacy of the pandemic on the digital media world? Covid-19 introduced many fads and mainstays, as well as opportunities for growth and lessons for the future. FIPP CEO James Hewes discusses what will separate the winners from the losers By Jacob Granger • 7 min read
Credit: Left to right: Federica Cherubini (RISJ), Renée Kaplan (The Financial Times), Siddharth Varadarajan (The Wire), Rosalia Lloret (elDiario.es) at the International Journalism Festival News Perugia highlight: what is next for the business of news? The Financial Times, The Wire and eldiario.es share the headaches that their newsrooms are having when it comes to making sure good journalism is well-funded By Jacob Granger • 4 min read
News Preparing for the "cookiepocalypse" with first-party data strategies The end of third-party cookies has cast uncertainty over the digital advertising model. Publishers like News UK are taking proactive steps to safeguard their future By Jacob Granger • 4 min read
Credit: Photo by Paul Chambers on Unsplash News 'High reach but low revenue': UK independent news publishers only make £42k a year A new report by the Public Interest News Foundation reveals that the smallest newsrooms still rely heavily on advertising that does not fully reward high-impact journalism. But there are fresh opportunities in online engagement By Jacob Granger • 4 min read
Credit: UK Parliament News 'Platforms should pay for news' a peer committee says In a new report on sustainability of journalism, peers also call for fixing the 'dysfunctional online advertising market' and a wider use of apprenticeships to diversify the industry By Marcela Kunova • 4 min read
News 'Personal approach and honesty' are the secret to membership success during the coronavirus pandemic Spain's second largest digital newspaper eldiario.es attracted 20,000 new members in one month after the editor asked readers to support its well-known investigative journalism in a heartfelt letter By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
Credit: Pixabay News 'Foundational journalism': The start-up that seeks to go beyond breaking news and truly inform audiences The Odin Media Project plans to use podcasts and newsletters as a way to help give listeners and readers an accurate and balanced worldview By Daniel Green • 2 min read
Credit: Dean Rutz/Seattle Times News The Seattle Times uses crowdfunding to stay independent as ad revenue dwindles One of the oldest US news publishers turns to its readers to fund its investigative journalism team of the future - and the community backs them By Jacob Granger • 2 min read
Credit: PUBLIQ co-founder Gagik Yeghiazarian speaking at Digital Content Expo in Berlin, 2018 News Advertorial: PUBLIQ offers publishers a fair revenue distribution model and helps fight media censorship The blockchain-powered platform is on a mission to create a decentralised system that benefits publishers, authors and users alike By PUBLIQ/Marcela Kunova • 3 min read