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Archives: December 17, 2015

“2016 is going to be the year when the professionalizing podcast industry finds out if it’s able to earn its place in the media big leagues.” Nicholas Quah
Crain’s new city-based newsletters are shaped to individual readers’ preferences.
“Candidates will ignore a lot of the truth-squadding — except when they can use it to attack their opponents. (Politicians hate fact-checking, except when they love it!)” Bill Adair
“Many, not all, of these digital publishers rely on an endless stream of unsubstantial viral debris, a model that is beginning to falter, and their valuations will begin their reversion to the mean.” M. Scott Havens
“Like The Avengers, but with FOIAgirl and Spreadsheetman.” Marie Gilot
“As an industry, we have done very little to identify, pipeline, and train the publishing talent that will be responsible for securing the financial future of news.” Amanda Hale
“Trimming copy, optimizing graphics for smaller space, curating the day’s best content, and understanding the best typography to tell a story are as valuable when laying out print as when putting together a Snapchat Discover edition or tweet.” Carla Zanoni
“By using available data, journalists will be able to orchestrate predictions and write tomorrow’s headlines and stories accordingly.” H.O. Maycotte
“Experimentation is becoming far more than just an add-on: It is emerging as a prerequisite for survival at a time of flux and uncertainty.” Alfred Hermida
“The bigger a company becomes, the more its culture becomes risk averse. There is often a heavy price to pay in terms of creativity and experimentation. But caution is also a risk.” Edward Roussel