Introducing The News Business’ First “Initial Coin Offering”: Ethereum To The Rescue?

Ethereum. Blockchain. Journalism? Blockchain —  a kind of digital ledger that contains cryptographically encoded blocks of data in a chain — is all the rage in the world of business process, and with investments in cryptocurrency — digital currencies such as Bitcoin that rely ...

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The Newsonomics of the new news cost pyramid

Still, those numbers are bound to chill many a journalist. You think posting reader metrics in newsrooms is still a point of contention — wait ’til story cost accounting becomes mainstream. And it will. It’s just simple manufacturing, and like it or not, that’s what the news business has long ...

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FT Direct Syndication Model Offers Lessons

The FT made a significant break from traditional practice by reclaiming control of its licensing activities. At that point, it said that building and growing direct customer relationships, rather than indirectly licensing via aggregators, was a top goal.

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