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Articles tagged The Information (26)

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 1, 2022

New York City now requires salary ranges in job posts. Here’s which media companies are complying, and which aren’t

“$15/hour to $125,000”?

Joshua BentonNovember 23, 2021

A rose is a rose is a rose, but please, please make it clear to your readers what a “subscriber” is

Do you mean “people who pay a news company hundreds of dollars a year”? Or “email addresses we have in a spreadsheet somewhere”?

Sarah ScireFebruary 4, 2021

The Information’s Jessica Lessin built a newsroom she wanted to work in — and coaches other journalists-turned-founders on doing the same

“Frankly, the really hard part is the journalism. Everything else can be learned and shared.”

Laura Hazard OwenMay 27, 2020

The Information is launching a free “news summer school” on Zoom

“This is about helping young people navigate what has always been a tricky industry to break into and that now faces unprecedented new challenges.”

Laura Hazard OwenDecember 4, 2019

$400 a year too steep for you? The Information will now sell mere mortals an app for $30 a year

The app is for “consumers who want to be plugged into the big tech stories without searching through Twitter or watered-down general news sites.”

Shan WangJune 12, 2018

Canada’s The Logic is a new subscription news outlet focused on the innovation economy, à la The Information

“Is it a tech story? Is it a business and tech or policy and politics story, is it a cultural story? Well, it’s actually all the above: The impact of technology on the cognitive, economic, and political ways we live is quite transformative.”

Meena Lee and Sarah GuineeApril 17, 2018

The New York Times has signed up a lot of subscribers. Here’s how it plans to keep them.

“My team believes that by investing in the subscribers we have and making the subscription experience better and better, we’ll be able to help all parts of the subscription business.”

Ken DoctorSeptember 26, 2017

Newsonomics: Tony Haile wants to build the TSA Pre✓ for how we consume news

His new startup Scroll aims to target readers who are engaged but not willing to sign up for a dozen digital subscriptions across their favorite sites. “Publishers have to make more money from this than they would have from advertising. Which, thankfully, is increasingly easy to do.”

The Information launches an accelerator for subscription news startups, with investments starting at $25K

Bloomberg Businessweek gets a two-tiered paywall, a substantial price increase, and a new look

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