Ricardo Bilton | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Ricardo Bilton

Ricardo Bilton is a contributor at the Nieman Journalism Lab. He was previously a reporter at Digiday, where he covered the business of digital media. He’s also written for VentureBeat, ZDNet, The New York Observer and The Japan Times. When he’s not working, he’s probably at the movies.

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Google Chrome’s built-in ad blocker goes live tomorrow. Here’s how it will work for users (and affect publishers)

February 14, 2018

Connecting reporters with experts, Sciline wants to improve the quality of today’s science reporting

“There’s so much pressure right now that it’s very tempting, more than ever, to just go with something…Often, it’s only your conscience and sense of journalistic responsibility that prevents you from hitting publish.”

February 9, 2018

With its new Olympics texting experiment, the Times is saying goodbye to SMS, hello to personalization

“What we’ve created is a bot-like exchange, but in the voice and tone of a person.”

A new report offers a primer (and a reality check) on the news membership model

February 6, 2018

With an increased focus on paid newsletters, Substack is opening up its tools to more creators

“People will always pay for news they can put on the company credit card, but we’ve always believed that that it’s far from the only thing people will pay for.”

February 5, 2018

“We get a much better reception now”: Piano says more news orgs are embracing paywalls, reader revenue, and consumer marketing

“The promise of Facebook growth is that, if get your strategy just right, you can get big scale and make money off a relatively small cost base…But there is no media business without a relationship with the consumer.”

February 2, 2018

The Atlantic is killing its comments in favor of a new Letters section to showcase reader feedback

“Design-wise, comments are treated as an afterthought. We wanted to find a way to elevate the best ideas from our readers.”

February 1, 2018

Learning from the New Yorker, Wired’s new paywall aims to build a more “stable financial future”

“People who have studied the information age at this point recognize that there were a bunch of problems and side effects to the fact that people weren’t asked to pay for content in the early years of the internet.”

January 31, 2018

Opinary is building new tools to help news orgs use polls to inform their coverage

Can a widget’s worth of reader engagement lead to useful data — and maybe even money? “The whole idea is to give readers and communities a voice within journalism.”

News organizations, not blogs or commentary sites, are Twitter users’ most-shared sources (at least on one issue), Pew finds

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