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pressgazette.co.uk
100k Club: Digital news subscriptions top 30m across largest publishers
pressgazette.co.uk
7 min read · May 13th · The 100k Club is Press Gazette’s ranking of publishers by digital news subscriptions. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal top the list.
Reader View · Shared by 8, including Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Jay Rosen
bariweiss.substack.com
At Harvard, Facts Are For Losers
bariweiss.substack.com
9 min read · May 8th · It turns out that nobody’s SAT scores can provide immunity to propaganda.
Nieman Lab
Revenue for hundreds of local news orgs went up in 2021, according to new data
Nieman Lab
2 min read · May 10th · More than 50 local newsrooms with just one or two full-time employees made more than $100,000 in annual revenue in 2021.
Reader View · Shared by 35, including Anita Zielina, Nieman Foundation, Jeremy Caplan
inma.org
Bild’s subscription testing drives its reader revenue plan
inma.org
5 min read · May 21st · Deciding how much to charge customers to subscribe to a news product can be difficult. Charge too much and and there aren’t have enough takers; but charge too little, and there isn’t enough…
Reader View · Shared by 65
Media Voices
Toolkits Co-Founder Jack Marshall on what’s next for subscriptions
Media Voices
3 min read · May 16th · This week we spoke to Jack Marshall, Co-Founder of Toolkits, a business information and consulting company focused on subscription publishing. We …
Reader View · Shared by 67
medium.com
48+ ways you can do something about the news
medium.com
20+ min read · May 20th · It’s time to conquer your feelings of helplessness and start creating positive change in response to news headlines
formatsunpacked.com
Desert Island Discs #1
formatsunpacked.com
5 min read · May 21st · How a lighthearted interview format became the 'greatest radio show of all time'
Reader View · Shared by 95
pressgazette.co.uk
Why The Guardian is betting big on newsletters and ignoring click-throughs
pressgazette.co.uk
2 min read · May 11th · Press Gazette spoke to The Guardian newsletter team about the launch of First Edition and the reasons why newsletters are having such a resurgence.
Reader View · Shared by 134, including Janosch Troehler
Jacob Donnelly ☕️
The Pivot to Advertising Has Begun
Jacob Donnelly ☕️
7 min read · May 4th · Subscriptions are unbelievable. You have recurring revenue that, ideally, compounds month after month. Nothing else matters because you have growing subscriptions. And…
Reader View · Shared by 60
femstreet.substack.com
Q&A with Sari Azout on the future of media, community-driven knowledge networks, and the ownership economy
femstreet.substack.com
2 min read · May 16th · Hello hello Femstreet friends! I’m Sari Azout - I spend my days investing, writing, building, and thinking about startups and the future of the …
Reader View · Shared by 55
medialyter.substack.com
Nuance is coming to a paywall near you
medialyter.substack.com
8 min read · May 3rd · Publishers are getting more sophisticated in how they gate their content
digitalcontentnext.org
Clickbait ads have no place in publishers' monetization strategy
digitalcontentnext.org
2 min read · May 16th · When the sole motive is profit, publishers fail. Clickbait creative may generate short-term revenue, but it sharply degrades user experience. When publishers put consumers at the center of their…
Reader View · Shared by 56
medialyter.substack.com
As subscriptions falter, commerce could soon follow
medialyter.substack.com
4 min read · May 16th · Publishers relying on affiliate revenue could soon feel the pinch
Nieman Lab
“An audible gasp”: Quartz, once a high-flying startup, has sold to G/O Media
Nieman Lab
5 min read · Apr 28th
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 97, including Michelle Garrett (she/her), Nieman Foundation, Jeff Jarvis
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Tomas Pueyo
The Future of Substack
Tomas Pueyo
~20 min read · Apr 26th · And How It Might Replace The New York Times
Reader View · Shared by 298, including Andreas Spiegler, Katja Evertz, John Nosta
The New York Times
Inside the Apocalyptic Worldview of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’
The New York Times
6 min read · Apr 30th · A New York Times analysis of 1,150 episodes reveals how Tucker Carlson pushes extremist ideas and conspiracy theories into millions of households, five nights a week.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 167, including Tara Parker-Pope, RJ Andrews, Kevin Quealy, Dr. Alec Couros, Carolina A. Miranda, Karen Yourish, Michael Shermer, Brian Stelter, Stuart A. Thompson, Bernardo van Olst, Judd Legum, Mathew Ingram, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Scott McLeod, Katie Benner, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, David Boaz, Jay Rosen, sircharlsxavier
Robin Sloan
The lost thread
Robin Sloan
2 min read · Apr 26th · The speed with which Twitter recedes in your mind will shock you.
Reader View · Shared by 153, including Alexis C. Madrigal, Mark Armstrong, Kyle Chayka, Mathew Ingram, Richard MacManus, Cory Doctorow, Fred Scharmen, Ralph Straumann, Ines Bieler, Anne Helen Petersen, Simon C, Chaotic Goode, JJ Flash, Craig Mod, Merlin Mann
Social Media Today
Meta Looks Set to Push Publishers Towards Short Video in New Pivot
Social Media Today
3 min read · May 11th · The new push could force news publishers to reassess their Facebook strategies once again.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 144, including Andrew Hutchinson, Jon Loomer, Amanda Webb - Digital Marketer 👩💻, Matt Navarra
Longreads
The 19th-Century Hipster Who Pioneered Modern Sportswriting
Longreads
~11 min read · Apr 26th · More than a century before GoPro, Thomas Stevens’ around-the-world bike ride vaulted first-person “sports porn” into the mainstream.
Reader View · Shared by 142
pressgazette.co.uk
Why The Guardian is betting big on newsletters and ignoring click-throughs
pressgazette.co.uk
2 min read · May 11th · Press Gazette spoke to The Guardian newsletter team about the launch of First Edition and the reasons why newsletters are having such a resurgence.
Reader View · Shared by 134, including Janosch Troehler
Nieman Lab
“An immediate drop in content”: A new study shows what happens when big companies take over local…
Nieman Lab
4 min read · Apr 20th
narrativeinitiative.org
A 2021 narrative reading list to launch your 2022
narrativeinitiative.org
10 min read · Apr 30th · Narrative reading in 2021: Articles, essays, resources, podcasts and more that made us think about how narrative change is working today.
Reader View · Shared by 114, including Ines Bieler
The Washington Post
How a billionaires boys’ club came to dominate the public square
The Washington Post
May 1st · The information that courses through both legacy publications and social media networks is increasingly shaped by billionaires and other wealthy dynasties.
Shared by 112, including Oliver Reichenstein, Brian Stelter, Merkstatt, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, David Boaz, Gerd Leonhard, erik spiekermann
The Conversation
The ‘digital town square’? What does it mean when billionaires own the online spaces where we gather?
The Conversation
5 min read · Apr 28th · The age of the free speech free-for-all is over – but public online spaces are possible.
All-time favorites
numinous.productions
How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
numinous.productions
From 2019
Reader View · Shared by 946, including Andy Matuschak (afk thru 05/30), Alexander Seifert, Mario Clemente, Evan (he/him), Dominik Grolimund, tylercowen, Dion Almaer, Nicky Case (rarely uses this site), Phillip Murphy, Michael Nielsen, cantlin, Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Gordon Brander, Gabriele, Jens-Christian Fischer, Mattia Fregola 🤔, Richard MacManus, Oleg Baskov, Jonathan Kogan, Enrico Bertini
Axios
The new silent majority: People who don't tweet
Axios
1 min read · Mar 8th · The rising power and prominence of the nation's loudest, meanest voices distort our reality.
Reader View · Shared by 758, including Sebastien Meunier, Stéphanie Walter, Christopher Lauer, Frank Luntz, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Ziad Shihab, Giannis Chrysogonou, Jonathan Kogan, Thomas Pleil
Visual Capitalist
How COVID-19 Has Impacted Media Consumption, by Generation
Visual Capitalist
~16 min read · From 2020 · This visualization explores how each generation's media consumption is changing amid the frenzy of pandemic-induced quarantines.
Reader View · Shared by 652, including Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽Metaverse 🕳🐇, Helen Yu, Tom Raftery 🇮🇪🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦💉💉💉, LARRY ELKAN, Michelle Tandler ⚖️, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Thomas Power, Vala Afshar, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Mark Kaigwa, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, Michelle Garrett (she/her), George J Huba PhD, Matt Navarra, Mari Smith, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Tamara Schenk, ⭐️Danielle Guzman ⭐️
The Atlantic
The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
The Atlantic
20+ min read · From 2020 · How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
Reader View · Shared by 639, including Alfie Kohn, erik spiekermann, M.J. Crockett, Claudia Sommer, Gideonro, John Koetsier, Jennifer Ouellette, Mathew Ingram, Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, Brian Stelter, Christopher D. Long (Крістофер Д. Лонг), NICK COULDRY, Christopher Knight, John Battelle, Gerd Leonhard, Charles Duhigg, Adrienne Fichter, Mike Davidson, Guy Kawasaki, Melissa Fach 🇺🇦
The Verge
The next big social network trend? Shortform audio
The Verge
5 min read · 2021-07-16 · Voice notes with viral dreams
Reader View · Shared by 622, including Tactical Tech, Jean-Patrick, Wilko S. Wolters 🇩🇪🇪🇺 See you at #HM22 ⚙️, Matthew Guay, Matt Navarra, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Jonathan Kogan, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Katja Evertz, Chad Underwood, Nicolas Dengler
Current Affairs
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs
Current Affairs
~15 min read · 2020-08-03 · The political economy of bullshit.
Reader View · Shared by 616, including Jennifer Ouellette, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, Chris Isak , Jeff Jarvis, Mathew Ingram, Kelsey D. Atherton, Scott Monty, Avinash Kaushik, Cory Doctorow, Jeff Atwood, Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD, Klaus Eck, John Battelle, Jay Rosen, Randy Olson, Karen McGrane, Caterina Fake, Rand Fishkin, Pete Skomoroch, Scott Berkun
Stratechery
Clubhouse’s Inevitability
Stratechery
~15 min read · 2021-02-15 · Clubhouse will do for audio what Twitter, Instagram Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video.
Reader View · Shared by 504, including Konrad Weber, Thomas Power, 👨🏻💻☕️, Scott Monty, Matt Navarra, Erika Heald | Content Marketing Consultant, Mike Butcher, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Mathew Ingram, Chris Isak , Gerd Leonhard, Andrew Hutchinson, Christiane Link, Chris Messina, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Kara Swisher, Renee DiResta, Brooke B. Sellas, David Bauer, Semil
BuzzFeed
He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse.
BuzzFeed
~14 min read · From 2018 · By predicting the fake news scandals surrounding the 2016 US presidential election campaign, tech engineer Aviv Ovadya has become an early Cassandra of Silicon Valley. Yet today, Ovadya believes that your children will look at the post-2016 election fallout with nostalgia. He warns that AI-enhanced technology is steering the world toward a disinformation apocalypse. To learn more about Ovadya’s background and thinking, getAbstract recommends you read Charlie Warzel’s recent post on BuzzFeed News.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 501, including Martin Recke, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , ThomNagy, David Bauer, Alex Barrera, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖, Oleg Baskov, Brad Brooks, Klaus Eck, Rodrigo Prior, getAbstract, Bill Johnston, Katja Evertz, Dominik Grolimund, Gerd Leonhard, Nick Lüthi, Matti Heubner, Stephan Spencer, Thomas Pleil, tjalve
The Guardian
How technology disrupted the truth
The Guardian
20+ min read · From 2016 · Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 475, including Oliver Gassner / @oliverg@mastodon.social, Jane, Thomas Pleil, Katja Evertz, David Bauer, Florian Jungnikl-Gossy ⛱, Thomas Power, Ryan Boren, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Jeremy Caplan, Gideonro, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Stephanie A Kowalski, Mathew Ingram, Nick Lüthi, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Stephanie Booth, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Claudia Sommer
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