In a world of algorithms, email: Journalists are building real media businesses around newsletters. Some are pulling in seven figures. The article profiles Ryan Broderick (Garbage Day), the Pantsuit Politics podcast duo, and a California expat who went from “what’s Substack?” to full-time creator in 12 months. (Scott Nover, Washington Post)
Joanna Stern made the Wall Street Journal’s best tech videos, wrote a book and went solo, and NBC came calling before she even launched. She keeps her newsletter, her videos, her events. NBC gets a chief tech analyst. Stars have always had leverage. Most of us just aren’t stars. (Sara Fischer, Axios)
Opening a New York Times article triggers 422 network requests and 49 MB of data. Teardown of how news sites turn hostile UX into business. (Shubham Bose)
Three years after pivoting to AI, BuzzFeed says there’s “substantial doubt” it can keep going. (Victor Tangermann, Futurism)
Digg is dead, again. The former front page of the internet wanted a come back, but the beta collapsed under a flood of bots. Votes and comments couldn’t be trusted. Founder Kevin Rose is back for another reboot, but the team is gutted. Meanwhile Yahoo is launching a ranked, real-time front page, minus the community.
The Independent Journalism Atlas is building a database of people doing journalism outside traditional newsrooms. It maps creators by beat, format, business model, and audience.
“User needs in content publishing: the slide that started it all, five years later (Dmitry Shishkin, LinkedIn)”
“Digital Innovation Playbook” verspricht einen pragmatischen Rahmen und ein Werkzeugset für Produktentwicklerinnen und Managerinnen.
Quartz, once a beacon of business journalism, is now a media zombie after being acquired by private equity (Obituray by co-founder Zach Seward)
Disgruntled Substack writers ditch 10% fees for flat-rate rivals, netting 20-25% more revenue. (Digiday)
Links und Tipps zum Einstieg ins Produktmanagement (Theresa Hoffmann)
The Defender Handbook: Radical Roots & Social-First Digital Tactics (Kansas City Defender)
Product Kit (News Product Alliance)
Baue eine robuste Medienorganisation mit unserem Selbstlern-Baukasten (Neue Narrative & Next.Media Hamburg)
