The Newsonomics of the Sun-Times National/Local Network Play

Coming, officially today, to your hometown: A templatized, national/local, ready-to-go network of 70 news sites and apps that aim to make use of all the au courant digital news business knowledge of the day. It’s called the Sun-Times Network, and it’s the latest attempt to try to do local news ...

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The Newsonomics of The Oregonian’s New Editor’s Challenge

Follow Newsonomics at @kdoctor   First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab It’s tough to find a place with more news change than Portland, Oregon. At the center of that change is the new Oregonian. Like New Orleans, Cleveland, Syracuse, and most other Advance ...

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The Newsonomics of Three Cracks at the Mobile News Puzzle: Circa, NRCQ & News Republic

Follow Newsonomics @kdoctor First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab   Mobile first. Two devilishly simple words that, at this point, tell us so little. By now, it’s common knowledge that most companies producing digital news are approaching — and at times surpassing — the ...

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The Newsonomics of Quartz’s — Obsessive — Explainer Business Model

Follow Newsonomics @kdoctor   First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab   Quartz, at the tender age of 19 months, can hardly be considered a father to Vox, FiveThirtyEight, and The Upshot. Clearly, though, it’s a major influence. It marked and followed an explanatory ...

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The Newsonomics of Digital First Media’s Thunderdome Implosion (and Coming Sale)

Follow Newsonomics on Twitter @kdoctor First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab   Today, we’ll hear official word of the demise of Project Thunderdome, one of the news industry’s highest-profile experiments in centralized, digital-first, mobile-friendly, new-news-partner ...

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The Newsonomics of NYT Now’s “Collective Intelligence”

Follow Newsonomics on Twitter @kdoctor   First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab It’s an ambitious launch. Within it, we can hear many of the digital news buzzwords of the moment: mobile first, curation, paywall, native ads, voice. NYT Now debuts on April 2, side-stepping ...

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The newsonomics of Schibsted’s VGTV and Native TV

Follow Newsonomics on Twitter: @kdoctor   AUSTIN — What’s one of the first principles of building a new digital business? “Make sure you lose money for at least three years,” VG CEO and editor Torry Pedersen told a London publishing crowd last week. There were some ...

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The Newsonomics of Impaq.me and News Impacting You

First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab   Related: The Newsonomics of (California Watch’s Single, Investigative Story Three Reasons to Watch California Watch The Death and Life of California News Foundations Move to Fill News Gap     Hello there! It’s me, your ...

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The Newsonomics of How the News Industry Will Be Tested in 2014

First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab   Our 2014 stage is set, and oh what a marvelous assortment of characters will be walking across it. Many of these characters — the Bezoses, Henrys, Kushners, Omidyars, and Buffetts — are new non-newsies thrusting themselves into the ...

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The Newsonomics of Scripps’ TV Paywall & the Last Man Standing Theory of Local Media

First published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab   How much would you pay for online access to Ron Burgundy — or at least the Ron Burgundys of Cincinnati? In an industry-shaking move, E.W. Scripps’ WCPO.TV — that’s the website of Cincinnati’s ABC affiliate — is putting up a paywall ...

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