“It’s one of those things that a lot of us had gotten into our business to do: to have impact, to change the world, whether you worked for the opinion pages or the newsroom.”
The site’s traffic is now nearly 20 percent higher than it was part of The Boston Globe. “What’s happened to Crux demonstrates that it is possible to sustain a niche news platform with a kind of for-profit and nonprofit model.”
Readers have finally understood that their payments for the news will actually make a difference in what they and their community know. That model needs to be extended down to states and cities.
An average post in the private subscribers group of just over 2,000 members attracts about twice the number of comments as a post on the Globe’s main Facebook page, which is approaching half a million likes.
In the U.S., the number of full-time editorial cartoonists who hold staff positions might be dwindling, but the narrative of decline excludes a whole host of people stretching the form online in ways that weren’t possible just a few years ago.
Bilton, Ricardo. "The Boston Globe, facing “irreversible revenue declines,” is launching a “reinvention initiative”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 7 Apr. 2016. Web. 13 Dec. 2024.
APA
Bilton, R. (2016, Apr. 7). The Boston Globe, facing “irreversible revenue declines,” is launching a “reinvention initiative”. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved December 13, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/04/the-boston-globe-facing-irreversible-revenue-declines-is-launching-a-reinvention-initiative/
Chicago
Bilton, Ricardo. "The Boston Globe, facing “irreversible revenue declines,” is launching a “reinvention initiative”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified April 7, 2016. Accessed December 13, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/04/the-boston-globe-facing-irreversible-revenue-declines-is-launching-a-reinvention-initiative/.
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