The Newsonomics of Syndication 3.0, from NewsCred and NewsLook to Ok.com and Upworthy

In part, it’s about new niches being found and exploited. In part, it’s about responding to deep staff cuts at many newspapers. In part, it’s about a slow-dawning wave of new product creation, aided by the tablet. Each of the newer efforts sees the world a little differently, and that’s ...

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Breaking Media Apart: Textbook Rentals by the Chapter

Google atomized content in one way, blowing up the newspaper (and magazine) package, and presented it in bits. Now we're starting to see ways -- Kindle Singles, I think, is best vision of what can now be done ("The Newsonomics of Kindle Singles") -- to reassemble those bits every which way in ...

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Huffing and Puffing on the Door of Local

# Is Huff Post more than a national brand? Does it really have much resonance around local for its readers? Smart aggregation certainly makes sense in concept, but news aggregators have seen relatively slow audience growth. People are busy and not hungrily looking for new sources or pointers to ...

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