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Twitter's brevity and the nature of the relationship that users have with each other will likely always make it better suited for breaking news, but Facebook also loses out as a news source because of the way it uses ranking algorithms to filter the newsfeed
Interesting take on how search ads (Google's strong point) may be overtaken by "native" (social/viral) advertising, where Google has barely a toehold (except YouTube). Can news sites do social/viral well?
Low monthly subscriptions lure in readers who like the discounted price, but keeping those readers is proving difficult for many titles One of the first choices a publisher must make ...
"What is changing is people are actually saying, Okay, how are consumers, our readers, actually consuming the news?"
Wall Street applauds layoff announcement, but the company is spinning its wheels on mobile and tablet platforms, while failing to develop new media brands The New York Times sometimes appeared ...
Most traditional media outlets are used to thinking of journalism or news as something they create and then distribute to a waiting audience -- but seeing it as a product or service instead can change the way you think about your job in some fundamental ways
“The amount of work required to keep pace with what Apple is doing is just not sustainable,” says Glenn Fleishman.
There's a pretty good argument for library-as-ISP in here, as well as library-as-publisher.
It’s telling that Chris Dixon, in a blog post explaining Andreessen Horowitz’s $50 million investment, goes out of his way to explain that BuzzFeed is not really a media company, but a …
"People want transparency like this, and Greenhouse may actually play a role."
The persistent financial demands of Wall Street have trumped the informational needs of Main Street. Print has become too much of a drag on earnings, so media companies are dividing back up and print is being kicked to the curb.
Kind of skeevy.
"We’re always navigating information and culture by way of these mechanisms, and every mechanism has a built in notion of what it’s trying to accomplish."
Interesting contrast to the NYT's admission that they can't use old content because of its crappy metadata.
The data visualization expert argues that FiveThirtyEight and Vox have overpromised and underdelivered — and that they need to treat their data with more scientific rigor.
Byliner was a promising startup with an admirable goal. So what happened?
Blessed with the sort of love him or hate him reputation reserved for the truly popular, Bill Simmons has received a lot of criticism from NBA fans for his propensity to act as the Body Language Do…