These two factors have created the ideal conditions for a suite of new innovations: editorial and news sites need to be designed to prioritize subscription and membership programs

This research looks at the influence of three commonly cited features on the success of digital local news outlets: the background of the publisher, experimentation with different revenue streams, and the wealth of the surrounding community. Of the three, only the wealth of the community is statistically correlated with “success” (which we define... See more

I see publishing brands scrambling to get out of the ads on pages business models of publishing. Nobody knows what’s coming, of course, only it’s safe to say, we are entering into a period of the job of publishing brands will increasingly shift to convening.

I’ve been tracking a new North Star metric for The Rebooting. It’s AAR, or audience... See more