Publishers, Journalism Innovation and challenges

As publishers face up to whatever might be their next existential crisis — there are so many options from which to choose, including Substack steal... (2021)

Nieman Journalism Lab The Guardian revamped its ask and its membership offerings — moving from 12,000 members in the beginning of 2016 to 300,00... (2017)

Non-subscribers visiting WSJ.com now get a score, based on dozens of signals, that indicates how likely they'll be to subscribe. The paywall tighte... (2018)

The problem being that I don't want to read individual newspapers. There are pretty much no newspapers where I read enough of them to justify subsc... (2018)

Apple News is primed to offer a subscription bundle, but publishers should be wary of being Aggregated. (2019)

Facebook’s Fan Subscriptions feature, which rolled out last March to a handful of pages, is a Patreon competitor that lets users pay $4.99 a month ... (2019)

For decades, the British title had a culture that tolerated vast losses. That makes its turnaround remarkable - but will it last? (2019)

Journalists create the content, and big tech companies are profiting off it, according to a new analysis. “We need to share the revenue,” a news pu... (2019)

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is selling its newspapers to publisher Lee Enterprises for $140 million, a rare admission by the billionaire in... (2020)

NBCUniversal is introducing a new way to incorporate commerce into the viewing and reading experience, which it calls NBCUniversal Checkout. The ne... (2020)