You might have heard: NPR instructed staff to no longer promote its podcasts or NPR One app on air, a result of NPR’s local station structure But did you know: Public radio is at a crucial intersection, Ellen Gamerman writes: Both its hosts and audiences are aging, and its business model is getting more competition […]

The divisions between the editorial and business sides is holding news organizations back, Xavier van Leeuwe writes. Van Leeuwe calls on news organizations to “start connecting and appreciating those willing to work together” and for the business side to stop “sighing and complaining to each other in back rooms.” Van Leeuwe writes: “Cooperation works best […]

Tribune Publishing’s new name tronc (short for Tribune online content) has marketing experts confused too, Martha C. White writes. Branding expert Rob Frankel says “The renaming thing blows up way more often than there’s any benefit.” And University of Southern California assistant professor of clinical marketing Ira Kalb says many companies overlook the importance of […]

An interesting set of circumstances in Albania is leading some legacy newspapers and television stations to close, Rrapo Zguri writes. Albania has a population of only 3 million, but until two years ago, it had 22 daily newspapers, one of the highest numbers in the region. Last year, two sports newspapers closed entirely and the […]

You might have heard: A Florida jury ordered Gawker to pay $115 million to Hulk Hogan, a decision that Gawker is now appealing But did you know: Gawker Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday, while its parent company Gawker Media Group announced that it had agreed to sell itself in an auction […]

“You can’t calculate every morning what will work financially,” Harper’s publisher Rick MacArthur says. “I meet these people all the time who say, ‘If we just get our editors to think more digitally, or more about consumer category X, Y and Z, we will be successful.’ It doesn’t work that way and is very boring. […]

“In too many cases, news outlets were busy amplifying the politics of blame,” Margaret Sullivan writes on Sunday’s coverage of the Orlando nightclub shooting, with some news organizations taking stances such as declaring the shooting as terrorism or emphasizing that it happened at a gay club. That’s partly driven by economics, with news organizations feeling […]

You might have heard: Tribune Publishing is now tronc, which stands for “Tribune online content” (BusinessWire) But did you know: “Far worse than the name and punctuational idiosyncrasies is the direction in which [Tribune chairman Michael] Ferro is pushing the company,” Erik Wemple writes. “The vision calls for perhaps the most concentrated mess of buzzwords […]

London business-focused newspaper City AM is drastically changing its culture, in ways that its chief operating officer Charles Yardley says could change the U.K. publishing landscape as a whole. Trying to bring editorial and commercial together, City AM will now also publish articles by “contributors” who are paid based on the number of page views […]

According to a new report from the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, 51 percent of local independent online news sites that sell journalism are selling native advertising or sponsored content. The report shows that while these publishers are still heavily dependent on advertising revenue, they’re experimenting with new ad formats and new ways to bring […]