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Joshua BentonMarch 25, 2020

We know coronavirus has wrecked the events business for media in 2020. But will it come back post-virus?

O’Reilly Media, long known for its successful conferences, has decided that it’s getting out of the business — no matter how quickly civilization gets past COVID-19. Will events revenue bounce back quickly in a few months or be lost under a mountain of Zoom calls?

Sarah ScireMarch 25, 2020

Scroll and Mozilla’s Firefox team up to bring ad-free news to a wider audience

For publishers seeing their ad revenue crater amid coronavirus, Scroll’s pitch of a paid ad-free experience sounds awfully appealing.

Is Facebook really a “news powerhouse” again, thanks to coronavirus? (No more than it was before)

Sarah ScireMarch 24, 2020

“Just catch me up, quick”: How The Wall Street Journal is trying to reach non-news junkies

News products that the Journal built to highlight its election coverage to occasional readers are being repurposed for coronavirus coverage.

Nicholas QuahMarch 24, 2020

Is The New York Times’ purchase of Audm a turning point in its new audio strategy?

Plus a deep dive into how coronavirus is affecting the podcast industry. “Some podcasts can survive cuts in direct support. Some can survive losses in advertising revenue. A great many can’t.”

Joshua BentonMarch 23, 2020

These are the four waves of journalism studies over the past 20 years: the participatory, crisis, platforms, and populist eras

“The economic problem for journalism was not competition, in other words, but surveillance and monopoly.”

People are getting a lot of coronavirus news from traditional media, but they trust information from their employers more

Cherine Fahd and Sara OscarMarch 23, 2020

The uncanny melancholy of empty photographs in the time of coronavirus

“We are accustomed to seeing images of crisis represented by fires, floods, bombs, warfare. The photographs we see as a result of COVID-19 are an emptying out and a slowing down.”

A guide to taking care of yourself and your newsroom in times of coronavirus

Joshua BentonMarch 19, 2020

“Total annihilation”: Coronavirus may just be the end for many alt-weeklies

COVID-19 is “a nearly perfect weapon against alternative weeklies.” In dozens of cities, papers are asking for donations, laying off staff, or abandoning print as social distancing dries up their revenue streams.

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