“Shiny Things”: Is over-innovation hurting journalism?
A recent report by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford has raised concern that journalism has become too…
NYT’s chief technology officer on how the newspaper harnesses technology to innovate
It has been a fascinating decade for The New York Times, a newspaper that has done perhaps more than any of its rivals to recalibrate…
Media M&A market booming, as companies seek to innovate through acquisition
The media M&A market is booming. PwC’s new report, US Media and Telecommunications Insights Q3 2018, finds that deal volumes have reached a two-year high in…
How M&A helps shape innovation in magazine media
The last five years has witnessed a major restructuring of the magazine media marketplace with a significant number of companies either consolidating their approach by acquiring rivals,…
The state of newsroom innovation: An international inquiry across 9 countries and 54 newsrooms
“Our angle on the current state of journalism is this: The crisis of journalism and legacy news media is structural, and not just a matter…
Future of Media and Publishing Meetup Takeaways
At yesterday evening’s 3rd Future of Media and Publishing Meetup in central London the topic of innovation and disruption was, not surprisingly, centre stage. Alongside,…
The Future of Magazine Publishing: Niche, Specialised Content Produced with Excellence
For the past eight years, the Magazine Innovation Center at the Meek School of Journalism and New Media, University of Mississippi, has brought industry leaders…
Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires
Jerry Z Muller is professor of history at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D C. His most recent book is The Tyranny of Metrics (2018). More…
The future of magazine media: niche, specialised content produced with excellence
For the past eight years, the Magazine Innovation Center at the Meek School of Journalism and New Media, University of Mississippi, has brought industry leaders…
Why are news publishers pivoting to subscriptions?
Why are so many news publishers pivoting back to subs & paywalls? After all, they didn’t work for most of them before. We all know…
Op-Ed: The challenges of executing programmatic on a global scale
Alex McIlvenny of native advertising solutions provider, Ligatus, asks the question why brands only execute programmatic on a regional basis when the technology exists to go…
