Newsonomics: Lydia Polgreen’s Ambitious HuffPost Remake Aims For “Solidarity” Among Readers

Related story: The Huffington Post Rebrands, But What Will It Stand For?   Make no mistake: Lydia Polgreen understands she has her work cut out for her. Named The Huffington Post’s editor-in-chief in December, Polgreen brings to the job an enviable reputation as a journalist, as a ...

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The Huffington Post Rebrands, But What Will It Stand For?

Related: Newsonomics: Lydia Polgreen’s ambitious HuffPost remake aims for “solidarity” among readers   Even before the vision of Verisney [“What Would a Verizon Mega Deal Look Like? Welcome to Verisney World“], AOL’s Huffington Post has seemed increasingly like the little ...

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MEDIAMASH: CNN, NBC Phone Home; NYT’s “The Daily” Pod; The Promise of Polgreen; Partly Cloudy in Tronckadelphia and the Oxymoronic Facebook Journalism Project

MEDIAMASH is Newsonomics’ new, occasional, quick take on the media business.     Could Two Phone Companies Own (TV) News? In addition to all its other delights, the Trump era looks like it will lay down a broad red carpet for more BIG, more corporate consolidation. We already knew that the ...

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What Are They Thinking? The New York Times’ New Latin American Push

Companion column: Newsonomics: The New York Times Restarts its New Product Model, in Spanish   If 2015 was a year to pause, reflect and plan, for The New York Times, 2016 is a year of aggressive new product development. Last year CEO Mark Thompson reshuffled most of his top executive team ...

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Newsonomics: The New York Times Restarts its New Product Model, in Spanish

If your image of Mexico comes only from election rhetoric, you might think of it as a land of drug-pushing, crime-committing illegals aiming to upset all Americans hold dear. Well, it turns out Mexico is a market, not only for American goods of many kinds, but also for journalism. This election ...

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