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The Newsonomics of membership, part 2
[Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] New news...
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The Newsonomics of public radio’s Argonauts
[Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] Overnight, it seems,...
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The Newsonomics of the shiny, new wrapper
Something old Something new Something paid And something free It’s a new mix-and-match world of digital products, fast evolving. Headlined last week by the launch of AOL’s Huffington magazine, we can...
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The newsonomics of 2013 wizardry: Tribune, Buffett, Murdoch, Paton,...
It takes at least three special qualities to be in — much less to enter — the newspaper business these days. We can borrow them from L. Frank Baum: heart, courage, and smarts. 2012 marked...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of Advance’s advancing strategy and its Achilles’ heel
Another city. Another melange of limited information, confused storytelling, and an unsuccessful attempt to put on a happy face to mask a huge change in newspapering and civic life. Last week, Oregon’s...
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The newsonomics of public radio’s all-in-one tablet strategy
It’s a tablet experiment in cross-pollination. How do you use the 48 square inches of an iPad to expose the depth of public radio — thousands of hours of national programming, local shows, and...
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The newsonomics of the for-profit move in local online news
Josh Fenton is an ad guy running a local news startup. Therein lies our tale. GoLocal24 is a different kind of online startup. It’s for-profit, unlike so many of the city startups we’ve seen. It’s...
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What can make audio go viral? NPR experiments with building earworms for...
Editor’s note: Public radio produces a lot of audio — but it doesn’t always get the attention on sharing platforms that it might deserve. Our friends at NPR Digital Services want to fix that, which led...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of The Oregonian’s new editor’s challenge
It’s tough to find a place with more news change than Portland, Oregon. At the center of that change is the new Oregonian. Like New Orleans, Cleveland, Syracuse, and most other Advance Publications...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of telling your audience what they should do
You should. Two powerful words. If they come from your mother or the government, they pack a particular weight. But what if they come from media? Should media be in the “you should” business? WNYC, the...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Texas, vast Texas, aims to set a new standard in statewide...
Texas Standard debuts with a snap, crackle, and pop. David Brown, its daily host, “brings us the snap of Marketplace, which he used to anchor,” says KUT general manager Stewart Vanderwilt, who has the...
View ArticleAre you ready to pay for a Netflix for podcasts?
What — if anything — would you pay to listen to your favorite podcast? As podcasters furiously pursue fast-growing ad money, many are looking — down the road — to listener payment as a secondary way to...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Tomorrow’s life-or-death decisions for newspapers are suddenly...
As local newspapers’ businesses hit the skids, they’re finding themselves careening right now into a future they’d thought was still several years away. “We are all going to jump ahead three years,”...
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