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“A vital handrail for us all to guide our priorities”: How AI powers editorial decision-making at The Globe and Mail

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“A vital handrail for us all to guide our priorities”: How AI powers editorial decision-making at The Globe and Mail

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How do you take a 175-year-old newsroom and successfully launch it into the digital era? “Paywall is not really a technology project,” says Greg Piechota, Researcher-In-Residence, INMA. “It’s about realigning the whole company to readers. It’s how you overcome your decision inertia, technology debt, concerns of staff. It’s a transformation project and a reinvention opportunity.”  The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper has been able to do all of the above successfully. Its Editor-in-chief, David Walmsley, spoke at length on how they did it at the recent INMA Subscriptions Summit.  “Data that complements editorial intuition” The 175 year old newspaper…

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Google’s massive algo update in 2 months: Publishers concerned about WordPress’ “Gutenberg bloat”

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Google’s massive algo update in 2 months: Publishers concerned about WordPress’ “Gutenberg bloat”

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“WordPress doesn’t seem aware of what publishers need in terms of better user experience.” A major Google search algorithm update—with “wide-reaching impact”—takes effect in 2 months. This update will introduce new page experience signals, combining Core Web Vitals—designed to measure how users experience the speed, responsiveness, and visual stability of a page—with the existing search signals. According to Google, these changes are expected to “have wide-reaching impact,” which is why the company has been repeatedly announcing the upcoming change for months. We're announcing that page experience ranking signals for Google Search will launch in May 2021. This will combine Core…

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Audio chatrooms like Clubhouse have become the hot new media by tapping into the age-old appeal of the human voice

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eCommerce livestreaming to generate $25B in sales in the US by 2023: What publishers need to know

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The Subscription Economy has grown over 435% in 9 years (and the uptick is expected to continue)
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The Subscription Economy has grown nearly 6x (more than 435%) over the last 9 years, according to Zuora. The subscription management platform provider has published…
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Google to stop selling ads based on your web browsing history: The Media Roundup
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Google to stop selling ads based on your web browsing history (🔒) OK, so this isn’t really news if you’ve been following Google’s adventures in FLoC…
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Newly launched, The Independent Publisher Alliance has been founded to give mid-size UK publishers a larger voice and to use its collective strength to educate,…
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Facebook, here’s your chance to level the playing field
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You’ll never find love and gratitude with the large publishers. So go niche. Facebook’s efforts to support large publishers are largely wasted. It’s time to…
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Digital transformation: Why newsrooms transformed into editorial action centres
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Modern newsrooms are a far cry from those of yore. The days when it was they who set the agenda and schedule for news consumption…
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Why journalism in the Global South needs open-source software
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Not long after the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, journalism leaders from around the world convened online to chart a way forward. The future of the industry was…
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“A vital handrail for us all to guide our priorities”: How AI powers editorial decision-making at The Globe and Mail
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How do you take a 175-year-old newsroom and successfully launch it into the digital era? “Paywall is not really a technology project,” says Greg Piechota,…
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Traditional news readers are better informed: The case against news on social media
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If social media companies have any chance of dealing with the scourge of misinformation on their platforms, they have to take into account this one…
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Young people are prepared to pay; publishers see success with podcasts: The Media Roundup
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Young readers trust quality news and a good proportion are prepared to pay €6 for a monthly digital subscription WAN-IFRA’s Elizabeth Benítez asked participants between…
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Digital giants paying for content is good news, but will it support local publishers?
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That the internet has all but destroyed the business model that has always supported journalism is not news. But what has made the news around…
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Google’s massive algo update in 2 months: Publishers concerned about WordPress’ “Gutenberg bloat”
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“WordPress doesn’t seem aware of what publishers need in terms of better user experience.” A major Google search algorithm update—with “wide-reaching impact”—takes effect in 2…
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Twitter takes a page from the news media’s digital transformation playbook
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The tech giant is looking to users to reinvent its model. Twitter was full of news about itself and its future this Thursday. The company said it…
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Publishers look to education for new revenue: The Media Roundup
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WWD, The Economist and The Skimm launch education offerings Looks like every day’s a school day after all – publishers looking to fix a historic…
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TIME: At 98, still transforming and giving birth to a new vertical: TIME Business
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The Mr. Magazine™ interview with TIME’s CEO and Editor in Chief Edward Felsenthal “When you and I talked last in 2014, there was just a period…
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Audio chatrooms like Clubhouse have become the hot new media by tapping into the age-old appeal of the human voice
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The must-read publishing stories you may have missed this week
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Hearst trials eComm livestreaming, publishers see 50% increase in subs, and more… Is livestream shopping the next publisher gold rush? Livestream shopping is the next…
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International Magazine Centre: 6 workflow tips for publishers
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Simple adjustments to your workflow can have a massive impact on your business by saving both time and money – studies show that if every…
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The collaborative future of news: Insights from Bureau Local
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This week Megan Lucero, director of the Bureau Local at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, provides us with a look at the present and future…
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eCommerce livestreaming to generate $25B in sales in the US by 2023: What publishers need to know
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“This is where shopping is going,” says Nancy Berger, SVP/Publishing Director and CRO, Hearst Media, as Cosmopolitan gears up to host its second, bi-annual shopping…
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The Independent reaps the rewards of investment: The Media Roundup
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Independent eyes acquisitions as it marks fourth year of profit despite Covid-19 The Independent has achieved a fourth year in profit since going digital-only, and…
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  • Media Moments 2020

    The key moments that have changed the media landscape during a tumultuous year

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  • The Publisher’s Guide to Navigating COVID-19

    How publishers are successfully steering a course through the pandemic

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  • The Publisher’s Guide to eCommerce

    Exploring wider opportunities that eCommerce potentially affords publishers

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  • The Publisher's Guide to eCommerce: Case Studies

    How specific publishers are successfully leveraging ecommerce opportunities

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  • 50 Ways to Make Media Pay

    A comprehensive guide to publisher revenue models

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  • Join the Independent Publisher Alliance!

    Newly launched, The Independent Publisher Alliance has been founded to give mid-size UK publishers a larger voice and to use its collective strength to educate, collaborate and support each other.  The goal? To maximize our potential and to strengthen our joint bargaining power across all areas. The IPA is the brainchild of Alex Newberry of …

  • International Magazine Centre: 6 workflow tips for publishers

    Simple adjustments to your workflow can have a massive impact on your business by saving both time and money – studies show that if every member of a publishing team saves just 25 seconds per day the team’s overall output will double in three years. But how do they do it? International Magazine Centre consulted …

  • How to play outside the duopoly’s publishing rules

    Today, the word ‘publisher’ encompasses a wide group of publications. From traditional print publications such as The Financial Times to digital-first publications like Wired and even the consumer-generated content website Medium. This evolution towards digitally-native content has boosted the two largest publishers; Google and Facebook. These two ‘publishers’ dominate when it comes to the number …

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  • Using AI, The Telegraph boosts Facebook engagement by 205%, driving subs growth

    The Daily Telegraph, known online simply as The Telegraph, is a national British newspaper brand launched in 1855 and distributed across the UK and internationally. The …

  • Ogury announces new mobile ad format for publishers: Q&A

    Ogury works with 3,500 publisher partners and is the creator of the world’s first mobile advertising engine driven by user choice. The company has recently launched …

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  • Publishing is believing, and I do believe… A Mr. Magazine™ musing

    New Magazines:  The Life Blood Of The Magazine Industry At Least 4,730 New Magazines Launched In The Last 20 Years… In any industry or profession, without …

  • Magazines still have a future. But it’s very different from their past.

    Wessenden Marketing, the UK insights consultancy and author of the annual mediafutures survey, has released its overview of the UK magazine market entitled, “Good News …

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