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Ken DoctorApril 9, 2018

Newsonomics: The Denver Post’s protest should launch a new era of “calling B.S.”

This is a golden age of American protest. It’s time to stand up and fight the vulture owners hollowing out local news.

Anders HofsethApril 2, 2018

Emily Bell thinks public service media today has its most important role to play since World War II

“I think there’s a very viable long-term financial model for commercial media. But I don’t necessarily think that applies directly to journalism.”

Ken DoctorFebruary 15, 2018

Newsonomics: 11 questions the news business is trying to answer in 2018

West Coast news chaos, a new leader at WordPress, the decline of digital display — and is The Washington Post really profitable?

Ken DoctorJanuary 9, 2018

Newsonomics: Can cross-subsidy (and nursing homes) help revive the Singapore Press?

“In the past one or two years, I’ve been reminding colleagues that we are not a newspaper company — we are a media company. The frame of change of mind is very important.”

Mirror, mirror on the wall

“The next time you are being told about yet another round of fundraising, whatever the increased on-paper valuation the company now claims, ask yourself before you hype that news: Why is putting additional money into a business that is clearly spending more than it is making, a sign of success? It’s called ‘burn’ rate for a reason.” Raju Narisetti

Ken DoctorDecember 15, 2017

Newsonomics: 15 terms that summed up 2017 in news and news coverage

From “meltdown” to “roll-up” to (of course) “fake.”

Rasmus Kleis NielsenDecember 5, 2017

Is the digital content bubble about to burst? For some of the publishers chasing the broadest scale, maybe

A new study from the Reuters Institute examines the strengths and weaknesses of seven globally ambitious news companies — Brut, Business Insider, De Correspondent, HuffPost, Mashable, Quartz, and Vice.

Ken DoctorNovember 16, 2017

Newsonomics: A call to arms (and wallets) in the new era of deregulation and bigger media

First Sinclair and now the Kochs are back. In an age of media free-for-all and massive deregulation, will fact-based journalism become an endangered species?

Ken DoctorOctober 25, 2017

Newsonomics: Can startup Invisibly be the new revenue stream publishers dream of?

Led by the cofounder of Square, Invisibly promises “four-figure CPMs” and a way to make big money off readers who won’t subscribe. It says it has most of the U.S. digital news industry on board. But is it just “an ad network dressed up as a savior for news sites”?

Ken DoctorOctober 17, 2017

Newsonomics: The Daily’s Michael Barbaro on becoming a personality, learning to focus, and Maggie Haberman’s singing

“To be a Times reporter is to be in some ways a raconteur, right? A lot of the journalists here are great, great storytellers at a bar…I think The Daily taps into that great oral tradition of journalists, enthusiastically talking about a story in a way they’re excited about, and it gets people excited about it.”

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