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“The audience growth has been too good to let it go away”: How the Wall Street Journal is adapting its live journalism in a virtual age

One of the Wall Street Journal’s newer projects is the Live Journalism team; a group of journalists who build agendas and source guests for the…

How the largest UK news publisher generated a 32% increase in page views

Reach plc, the largest commercial national and regional news publisher in the UK, has one of the biggest monthly multi-platform audiences in the UK and…

What ‘trust in news’ means to users, shoppable print using image recognition, and more: This week in publishing

The must-read publishing stories you may have missed this week Shoppable print…without QR codes The poor QR code has had a rough ride. It has…

Using real women in imagery: Future Publishing’s story

In late 2019, Future Publishing, the publicly listed UK and US publisher with 200 brands and a global monthly audience of 390M, launched an initiative…

Publishers ranking: Europe’s top 15 news media on TikTok

The trio of Daily Mail, Tagesschau and BBC dominate the ranking. But publishers from across Europe are joining the trend TikTok was the most downloaded non-game app…

PPA publishes results of industry-wide diversity and inclusion survey

PPA pledges annual D&I report following successful first industry-wide surveyIndustry commits to fostering environments of inclusivity and belonging, seeking to continually improve representation at all…

Mental Floss Editor in Chief Erin McCarthy on the title’s 20-year mission to make readers smarter

This week Mental Floss Editor in Chief Erin McCarthy tells us about how it’s celebrating its 20th anniversary, how the magazine started in a university…

What “trust in news” means to users: Insights for publishers, from Reuters Institute

“Trust often revolves around ill-defined impressions of brand identities,” according to a new Reuters Institute report, “and is rarely rooted in details concerning news organisations’…

Building a modern and sustainable media outlet is easier than ever

“Easier than ever”, of course, does not mean easy. Here are the tools to make sure the hard work you put toward launching a successful…

How do publishers get readers to keep paying for news? — The Media Roundup

How do publishers get readers to keep paying for news? Press Gazette reports that English-language publishers – led by the New York Times, Washington Post…

Bauer Media’s Grazia and heat magazines go shoppable using image recognition

Bauer Media, part of the privately-owned Bauer Media Group, has announced a partnership with Phuzion Media, that allows its print titles to become fully interactive and instantly shoppable. The…

“We will once more meet face to face”: Publisher’s Pandemic Roundtable

Pandemic Roundtable with Lizanne Barber of Distripress Our Pandemic Roundtable, comprising Joe Berger, Bo Sacks, Gemma Peckham, Samir Husni, Sherin Pierce, and me, started one…

Digital newspaper subscriptions to exceed print, how WSJ is adapting in a virtual age, and more: The Media Roundup

The Subscribd dilemma: Premium news bundles a ways off It feels like pretty much everyone now has a subscription product, and inevitably, discussion has started…

On with The Alliance: Publisher Roundtables

Following the UK launch of The Independent Publishers Alliance (The Alliance) in March of this year, its founders outline the latest developments and initiatives for…

Nobody wants cross-app tracking, not even your mum: The Media Roundup

It turns out no one wants to be tracked all across their iPhones by Facebook (or anyone else) Only 4% of the public in the…

Bursting the information bubble: A philosophical take on media’s existential crisis

Today’s journalist battles not with rivals at crosstown newspapers, but with the algorithms of Facebook, Twitter and Google. With clickbait and disinformation crowding the limited…

Katherine Viner on how The Guardian has lasted 200 years: The Media Roundup

Katherine Viner on how The Guardian has lasted 200 years It wasn’t that long ago that very few people would have bet on the Guardian…

How publishers can reconfigure their advertising strategies, digital consumption rises 30%, and more: This week in publishing

The must-read publishing stories you may have missed this week Less is more This week, The Fix have published a great piece looking at five lessons…

“It’s much more common to succeed with subscriptions”: Publisher insights from Piano’s Performance Benchmark Report

Piano, one of the world’s leading providers of subscription services, has just published its inaugural Subscription Performance Benchmark Report. It’s based on data from the…

‘Content with Zero Ads’ is Twitter’s new approach to push subscriptions

Twitter is betting on a “cleaner” Internet. Twitter is promising wider distribution of “clean content” for readers to jump-start its subscription model. The company is…

How Publishers Can Swap Out The Cookie Jar In 2021
The identity solutions available to publishers as Google sunsets third-party cookies
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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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What is Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) and why should publishers care?
Over the past few years, the movement towards increased data privacy has grown due to shifts in consumer mindset, legislation, and changes across the digital advertising landscape. This year, the industry has been preparing for two major developments: the end of third-party cookies with Chrome’s deprecation and the implementation of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) …
Will a cookieless world help publishers get ahead?
In today’s landscape, privacy is at the forefront of decisions of Big Tech companies, Google has flexed its muscles with the phase-out of third-party cookies, as well as its recent decision not to support Unified 1D 2.0. Now, with Apple releasing its new privacy guidelines with iOS 14.5 out of beta, the media ecosystem is …
On with The Alliance: Publisher Roundtables
Following the UK launch of The Independent Publishers Alliance (The Alliance) in March of this year, its founders outline the latest developments and initiatives for the remainder of 2021. The Independent Publishers Alliance (The Alliance) started in earnest earlier this month by hosting 3 roundtables with representatives from 14 digital publishers. The aim was to …