With all the hype at Apple’s WWDC surrounding the launch of its new digital music streaming service (Apple Music) as well as a new 24 hour global radio station (Beats 1), it was easy to miss one big announcement that could have a massive impact on the publishing industry
Researchers at Oxford University found that digital subscriptions and online advertising were failing to compensate for the collapse in newspaper sales
Apple is hiring a team of journalists to run its Apple News service, part of a broader push by the company to personalise the content it selects and delivers to users of its devices
Apple is set to include a new smart news app with every copy of its latest iOS software, the firm said today. It will allow reader to choose the topics and newspapers and magazines they are most interested it, and then be shown the most relevant stores
As an estimated 2 billion people are about to enter the digital news ecosystem, Western publishers need to rethink their attitudes if they’re to best engage with – and thus monetise – that new international audience
Nine media organisations, including the BBC, through its youth-oriented Newsbeat service, the Guardian and the New York Times, have struck a deal with Facebook to publish some of their content directly through the social network rather than simply hosting it on their own sites as part of a trial.
For all the talk of ‘digital first’, most dailies are still dominated by the economics and culture of print. But, even those with growing online audiences must now make a real strategic leap.
The European arm of Politico will go live online on 21 April with more than 40 journalists spread across the continent as the US media outlet aims to fulfil its ambitions to become “the dominant politics and policy publication in Europe”
What is it about daily newspapers? Falling circulations and advertising have broken business models that cannot be mended even by booming digital audiences. But you wouldn’t guess it.
Politico and German publisher Axel Springer are acquiring the website and weekly newspaper European Voice and rebranding it as the European edition of the political website
In his GIGAOM blog Matthew Ingram says that we should be careful not to conflate the issue of declining staff levels in traditional newsrooms with the health of journalism overall
In 2011 research from the Pew Center in the US reported that only 11% of US news consumers on any kind of digital device described themselves as getting their news through “Facebook or Twitter”. In the 2014 report of the same metrics 30% reported getting their news primarily from Facebook alone. That is a very rapid rate of migration in just two years.
Blendle, a Dutch startup that sells access to articles from media outlets in the Netherlands and elsewhere on a per-article basis, has closed a $3.8M Series A funding round led by the New York Times and German media giant Axel Springer
Shane Smith, the colorful co-founder and CEO of Vice Media, has gotten the multibillion-dollar market valuation he wanted for his upstart new-media conglomerate
BuzzFeed, the news and entertainment website that has surged to success on the back of social media sharing, is getting a $50m shot in the arm from an Andreessen Horowitz investment that reportedly values the company at $850m.
So said BuzzFeed editor in chief. They’re (23 year olds he works with) more interested in this moment of crazy opportunity, with the massive economic and cultural transformation driven by Silicon Valley. And kids feel capable of seizing it. Technology isn’t a section in the newspaper any more. It’s the culture.” For Roy Greenslades full […]
So said BuzzFeed editor in chief. They’re (23 year olds he works with) more interested in this moment of crazy opportunity, with the massive economic and cultural transformation driven by Silicon Valley. And kids feel capable of seizing it. Technology isn’t a section in the newspaper any more. It’s the culture.” For Roy Greenslades full […]
After more than a year of preparation, it spun off its Time Inc print division, which on Monday began trading as an independent company and is now in discussions to take a substantial stake (as much as 30%) in Vice Media
