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“Mobile is everything,” says Chad Millman, ESPN’s vice president and editorial director for domestic digital content.
Some outlets are turning their cameras sideways. Others are cropping horizontally shot video to fit a vertical screen.
The news was mostly bad for publishers and news organizations last year.
It’s also the first business-oriented publication on the platform, which has a notably younger audience than the 126-year-old daily.
In a Q&A, Vox Media co-founder Tyler Bleszinski reflects on his time at the company.
The quest for scale, driven by the distribution power of a few enormous technology platforms, is killing the business case for local news. Will anything take its place?
Instead of just publishing to their own websites, news organizations are being asked to publish directly to platforms they don’t control. Is the hunt for readers enough to justify losing some independence?