By Ryan McCarthy February 02, 2024 This year, something unusually dark is happening in an industry that is, by design, quite used to handling bad news. In a strong economy, with unemployment near a 50-year low, virtually every single part of the news business—digital media, local news, TV, print, podcasts, and documentaries—is laying off … Continue reading Why does journalism seem like it’s collapsing? Call it market failure
Journalism Groups Join Coalition To Save Local News by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, January 27, 2023 Rebuild Local News, a coalition group, proposed a dramatic tax-based solution to the problem of disappearing local journalism, which is having significant social and political consequences, according to Near Media co-founder Greg Sterling. Turns out the art of news is dwindling. Since 2004, 2,100 … Continue reading Journalism Groups Join Coalition To Save Local News
Google News Initiative Works With American Journalism Project To Fund, Advance Online News Startups by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, December 14, 2022 The Google News Initiative is working with the American Journalism Project to find U.S.-based founders with innovative ideas that can advance local news online. The latest 18-month venture launched by the Google News Initiative … Continue reading Google News Initiative Works With American Journalism Project To Fund, Advance Online News Startups
“Most of the martech misses the last touch or the first touch in terms of gathering the correct data.” Constantine von Hoffman on May 4, 2022 How did you come to be in marketing? What was the path that brought you here? I started as a journalist covering the media, entertainment and technology space back … Continue reading The journey from journalism to SEO marketing expert
Advertising (Like Journalism) Isn’t Perfect by George Simpson , Featured Contributor, October 31, 2019 Clickbait used to be the hallmark of sites like BuzzFeed and The Daily Mail, but apparently The New York Times is not above it, with a headline the other day that read “The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads.” … Continue reading Advertising (Like Journalism) Isn’t Perfect
Steve Masters — July 20, 2018 Follow @masterstips — July 20, 2018 Free-Photos / Pixabay Websites that accept guest posts might need to rethink their editorial policies, now that the internet is populated by many bloggers who are charging fees for exposure. This phenomenon was highlighted by a Buzzfeed News article, which investigated the activities … Continue reading The Thin Line Between Journalism and Commercialism
Joao Romao — January 26, 2018 Follow @joaoromaolx — January 26, 2018 Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Goals. We’ve been writing about Facebook’s constant changes to its newsfeed. We’ve been advising how to survive the reach crush, the dangers (and unsustainability) of the clickbait culture, why understanding how Facebook works is tough and even some tests with … Continue reading Fixing Facebook: A “Better” Newsfeed and a Chance for Journalism
Yes, print news consumption is in a funk, but columnist Megan Hannay explains how journalists and brands can actually help each other. Megan Hannay on August 17, 2016 With each new issue, “all the news that’s fit to print,” the famous New York Times slogan, comes closer to an anachronism. Earlier this year, Pew … Continue reading Local journalism, meet branded content: What the decline in print means for brands
Priya Florence ShahSeptember 10, 2015 “Want shares and links? Create deep research or opinion-forming content,” says a new study jointly conducted by BuzzSumo and Moz. Having had some training and background in journalism, it made me happy to know that the content sweet spot for achieving both links and shares online is “authoritative, opinion shaping … Continue reading Journalism Ethics Guidelines To Make You An A-List Blogger
