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Sarah ScireMarch 26, 2020

Slate launches a metered paywall to draw more membership revenue from readers, not just listeners

“Up till now, Slate has provided almost all of its written work for free. But going forward, we think the way we will truly thrive is by continuing to diversify our revenue — by asking readers like you to support us more directly.”

Joshua BentonNovember 13, 2018

So some people will pay for a subscription to a news site. How about two? Three?

New York magazine and Quartz both now want readers to pay up. How deep into their pockets will even dedicated news consumers go for a second (or third or fourth) read?

Nicholas QuahJanuary 16, 2018

Who needs video? Slate is pivoting to audio, and making real money doing it

Plus: WBEZ tries to turn a podcast into a franchise, Science Friday joins WNYC Studios, and Gimlet opens up the HBO playbook.

Laura Hazard OwenMay 8, 2017

The Christian Science Monitor’s new paid, daily product is aiming for 10,000 subscribers in a year

“The Daily is really in the service of this mission of making people more thoughtful, less neurotic, more calm, and seeing the world through the lens of progress.”

Shan WangDecember 13, 2016

Slate’s Chrome extension helps identify fake news on Facebook — and lets readers flag it themselves

“This is Fake,” a project that emerged from a post-election hack day at Slate, defines “fake” news as “something intentionally misleading, intentionally false.”

Shan WangSeptember 23, 2016

Slate, now 20 years old, reflects on the value of taking the long view and not chasing digital media trends

“One of the things you’ve seen across the marketplace for the last five years is a lot of companies are chasing the same kind of traffic from the same social distribution mechanisms…It’s not a recipe for producing a distinctive media brand.”

Check out this handy interactive timeline of the history of podcasting

Madeline Welsh, Joseph Lichterman, and Shan WangDecember 2, 2015

The mobile adblocking apocalypse hasn’t arrived (at least not yet)

But it’s a real and growing factor on desktop browsers, which has gotten many news organizations thinking about how to respond to the adblocking threat. Here are some of the strategies they’re trying.

Joseph LichtermanOctober 27, 2015

How PRX and Radiotopia are rethinking the public radio pledge drive for the podcast era

“That’s part of the strategy. Make the funnel as big as you can, make people really excited about supporting your content, and then you have a relationship to work with and follow up on.”

MinnPost introduces members-only content with MinnPost+

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