May 4, 2024
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News media have been big winners in the Presidential election so far. Ravenous for news of each twist and turn of the campaign, Americans have almost tripled the amount of time they are spending consuming digitally distributed political news. Three years ago – in the far less political year of ...
Read MoreAt BuzzFeed, a 32 percent miss in 2015 revenue and a halving of its 2016 revenue target, according to the Financial Times. At Mashable, a massive layoff after the company failed to sell itself. At Yahoo, an upcoming sale of its news-producing assets, portending great uncertainty for journalists ...
Read MoreRELATED ARTICLE Newsonomics: The New York Times re-invents Page One — and it’s better than print ever was March 7, 2016 Since he arrived at The New York Times in 1999, Steve Duenes has seen a lot of change.The Times associate managing editor for graphics finds himself in the midst ...
Read MoreCompanion story: From “Service Desk” to Standalone: How The New York Times’ Graphics Department Has Grown Up Both columns originally published at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab Follow Newsonomics on Twitter @kdoctor Ah, the art of the broadsheet Page One, with its mystical ...
Read MoreKeep in touch. Tell me what’s new. They’re simple requests, and ones that we’re used to repeating to each other. Now, though, courtesy of the powerful computers in our pockets called smartphones, the way we stay in touch with each other changed — and the way our favorite news sources stay in ...
Read MoreThere’s a nice scene in Hail, Caesar!, the Coen brothers’ latest movie, in which one Hollywood character astutely observes: “We’re not talking about money — we’re talking about economics.” Indeed. This year’s crazy-making U.S. presidential election further illuminates and blurs that divide. ...
Read MoreCompanion 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 ...
Read MoreIf 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 ...
Read MoreCompanion article: What Are They Thinking: Quartz Redesign Lays Out a New Home Page ‘Welcome Mat’ Is Quartz the next digital-news start-up to be bought? In the continuing roll-up and old media investment in digital news start-ups, Atlantic Media’s Quartz may be next in line. ...
Read MoreCompanion article: Q and A: Marty Baron shines a Spotlight on journalism It seemed like a boast out of ancient times, prominently displayed on WashingtonPost.com and given big house promotion play in the digital pages of the Post. Then, the same aspirational claim (“What we’re ...
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