Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: During a 2016 campaign rally, candidate Trump threatened to “open up” libel laws as president, making it easier to sue news organizations (Politifact) But did you know: Justice Clarence Thomas calls for reconsideration of landmark libel ruling (The […]

Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: The Knight Foundation released a report calling for more philanthropy, transparency, diversity and disinformation-fighting technology to restore the “crisis of trust” in American journalism (Knight Foundation) But did you know: Knight pledges $300 million to local news, free […]

Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Metrics like page views and time spent on articles — two commonly cited benchmarks — are not nearly as important as the number of readers who are frequent users (Local News Initiative) But did you know: Clicks are an […]

Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Apple plans to keep about 50 percent of subscription revenue from “Netflix for news” service, likely won’t share customer data with publishers (Wall Street Journal) But did you know: The logic behind Apple’s give-us-half-your-revenue pitch to news publishers […]

Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: “Launching a paywall is easy. Pivoting a whole business from an advertising-centric mindset to one focused on reader revenue is not.” But did you know: News media needs to convince readers to open their wallets. Consolidation has not helped. […]

Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Facebook declines, Google grows as battle for news audiences continues (Parse.ly) But did you know: Where your new readers are going to come from in 2019 (Nieman Lab) In the first piece of a two-part installment, Nieman Lab’s […]

Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: There was less misinformation during the 2018 midterms than in 2016 (Poynter) But did you know: Researchers say fears about ‘fake news’ are exaggerated (Columbia Journalism Review) Researchers at the University of Michigan recently came to the conclusion […]

Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: With philanthropic gifts to media topping $50 million, Craig Newmark is working to save journalism (The New York Times) But did you know: Poynter, with funding from Craig Newmark Philanthropies, will launch a new media ethics center (Poynter) With […]

Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: The Wall Street Journal measures “active days” — the number of days a reader engages with content — to determine how likely they are to subscribe (Nieman Lab) But did you know: Building habit — not page views — […]

Fresh useful insights for people advancing quality, innovative and sustainable journalism OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Hedge-fund-backed media group makes bid for Gannett (Wall Street Journal) But did you know: Gannett rejects takeover offer from Digital First Media (USA Today) On Monday Gannett’s board unanimously rejected an unsolicited proposal to be acquired by media […]