Newsonomics: After John Oliver, The You-Get-What-You-Pay-For Imperative Has Never Been Clearer

    Can John Oliver’s 19 minutes rivet attention as all the bolts and screws continue to come undone in the local news business? That seems a hope against hope — and yet 3.7 million YouTube views of his Sunday evening HBO program say something. Oliver offered no new revelations, ...

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Newsonomics: Financial Times’ CEO John Ridding on Trial Subscriptions, The Platform Age, and Living In Luxury

  RELATED STORY: Newsonomics: The FT Doubles Its Branded Content Initiative   John Ridding lives in luxury — or at least nearby. The CEO of the Financial Times serves a readership with enviable pocketbooks and portfolios; on average, FT subscribers say they have household incomes of ...

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Newsonomics: NYT’s 1Q, Reader Revenue is now 57% of All Times Revenue

If there were any doubt about the importance of reader revenue to the future of The New York Times – and most of the news publishing business – consider these numbers, offered up in the company’s first-quarter, 2016 financial report this morning. The New York Times now depends on readers for ...

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Newsonomics: The New York Times Re-invents Page One — and It’s Better Than Print Ever Was

Companion 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 ...

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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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Newsonomics: Is the Washington Post Really the Newspaper of Record?

Companion 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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Newsonomics: Can You Get Readers To Pay A Dollar A Day For Digital News?

Is local news worth a dollar a day? That’s the fascinating question The Boston Globe is now posing to its local readers. It’s a query that should resonate among the press around North America and Europe as well. Ninety-nine cents has become the golden price of digital media. ...

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Newsonomics: 10 Questions into 2016, Including Ad Blockers, Watson, TPUB and Particles

Everyone’s got questions. CNBC’s crew faced the Republican Ten for about an hour last evening until finding themselves in a no-man’s land. In front of them were the candidates who turned the tables on them, asserting that old standby “media bias.” Behind them was a very un-Boulder-like audience ...

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Doubling Digital Revenue at NYT; 3Q Results Say It Won’t Be Easy

Can the New York Times track its doubling of digital revenue goal, to $800 million, by 2020? I explored the nuances and arithmetic of the strategy two weeks ago (“Newsonomics: The thinking (and dollars) behind The New York Times’ new digital strategy”)  and talked to CEO Mark Thompson about it. ...

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