Cutting through the ‘ChatGPT for journalism’ hype: The Media Roundup
Today's roundup is brought to you by Chris Eight tasks journalists can pawn off to robots The always excellent Marcela Kunova has written a practical guide to ChatGPT for journalists. Not… (more)
Playing the reader revenue long game: The Media Roundup
Today's roundup is brought to you by Esther At The Seattle Times, 70 percent of revenue now comes from readers I always love looking at how publishers who focused on reader… (more)
Buzzfeed, AI and Wall Street: The Media Roundup
Today's roundup is brought to you by Peter Buzzfeed, AI and Wall Street Writing for The Atlantic, Damon Beres has an opinion on the news that Buzzfeed will be using AI… (more)
BuzzFeed and Meta seek new fortunes in the creator economy: The Media Roundup
Today's roundup is brought to you by Chris Meta pays BuzzFeed millions to generate 'creator content' for Facebook and Instagram Loads of news coming out of BuzzFeed lately, from its use… (more)
Times may be tough but luxury sector publishing is booming: The Media Roundup
Today's roundup is brought to you by Esther The impact of layoffs on those left behind It's been yet another brutal January. Yesterday, Dotdash Meredith were reportedly planning to lay off… (more)
‘Experiment and learn’ with AI: The Media Roundup
Today's roundup is brought to you by Peter Report on reviving local news critical of biggest players Echoing our lead newsletter story yesterday, The UK Commons Culture Committee has said the… (more)
Local news groups band together for survival: The Media Roundup
Today's roundup is brought to you by Christopher Local news groups band together for survival In yesterday's newsletter Esther noted that the era of billionaire-based philanthropy hasn't actually served newspapers all… (more)
The billionaire era in news is fizzling: The Media Roundup
Today's roundup is brought to you by Esther Why the billionaire era in news has been a disappointment From the Washington Post to The Atlantic, Time and more, the past decade… (more)
Everything becomes crab in the end: The Media Roundup
Today's roundup is brought to you by Chris. Every company eventually tries to become a media company As ever with Simon Owens' newsletter there's a lot of interrelated stories here, but… (more)
Reuters to create 100 jobs, lessons from 10 years in email, and more: The Media Roundup
Today's roundup is brought to you by Esther. Empire Film Podcast editor says he’s “doing two full-time jobs” Haymarket's new podcasting brand PodPod have produced some excellent features and episodes over… (more)
Robust advertising business complements subscription revenue: The Media Roundup
Robust advertising business complements subscription revenue You can read this post from Jacob Donnelly as a putdown for any subscription-only zealots remaining out there. Or, as I do, as further… (more)
How a newsletter for broke Londoners broke even: The Media Roundup
Today's roundup is brought to you by Chris. How newsletter for thrifty Londoners built a 10,000 person audience by word of mouth I'm seriously hoping that this year we see fewer… (more)
How well will we navigate the coming AI changes? — The Media Roundup
The AI era begins. Will we navigate the change better? "If you work in media you’ve been navigating stomach-turning change for quite some time. But the 2023 inflection feels epochal,"… (more)
How AI will alter media: The Media Roundup
How AI will alter media I spent a fair amount of time today talking and thinking about AI and automation in media and it's always nicely validating to know Brian… (more)
Publishers reprioritise revenue over subscriber growth: The Media Roundup
Publishers reprioritise revenue over subscriber growth This one feels like it's been a long time coming. Almost every time we spoke about The Athletic and the NYT over the past… (more)
Vox Media on effective multiplatform podcast extensions: The Media Roundup
Vox Media on effective multiplatform podcast extensions So you've got a podcast or two growing nicely. Now what? Just before Christmas, I spoke to Ray Chao and Nishat Kurwa, two… (more)
Podcasts could be the year’s biggest opportunity …. or not: The Media Roundup
2023 could be rough for podcasters Nicholas Quah, Vulture's podcast critic, has been asking podcasting pros what they think is likely to be coming down the pike in 2023. He… (more)
Fleet Street’s incursions into the US news sector: The Media Roundup
Fleet Street's incursions into the US news sector Sharing a primary language with the US has benefited British news titles for decades upon decades. But that's been supercharged since the… (more)
GDPR finally bites Meta: The Media Roundup
Meta (Facebook and Instagram) prohibited from using personal data for advertising, third case on WhatsApp pending You'll all know by now that GDPR regulations require explicit 'opt-in' consent for personalised… (more)
Duopoly no longer claims majority of online ads: The Media Roundup
Duopoly no longer claims majority of online ads You might have missed the news in December that - for the first time in almost 10 years -the two largest players… (more)
