A study of 18 non-profit news organizations done by the Knight Foundation shows that success in the non-profit sector involves many of the same strategies that for-profit media outlets should also… Read more »
Twitter faces a number of challenges once it becomes a publicly-traded company, but one of the main ones is how to increase its advertising revenue without ruining the experience for users. Read more »
Twitter’s IPO filing is now public, and the company says it plans to raise as much as $1 billion. According to the documents it had revenue of $253M in the first… Read more »
Just a few years ago, Twitter was dismissed by many as a plaything, but it has grown to become a crucial part of the real-time information ecosystem — and now it… Read more »
Fans of the social-blogging network might not like the idea much, but a $1-billion acquisition of Tumblr would arguably solve a number of problems for Yahoo — and do the same… Read more »
There are plenty of reasons for pessimism about the state of the media and journalism, including repeated layoffs, bankruptcies and so on. But there are also many reasons to be optimistic… Read more »
The U.S. newspaper industry has lost more than $40 billion in ad revenue in the past decade — over half of that in the last four years alone — and Google’s… Read more »
BuzzFeed has become the poster child for what some call sponsored content or “native advertising,” but despite the skills of founder Jonah Peretti, the secret to making ads go viral is… Read more »
Twitter wants to get on the good side of third-party app developers with some new features for its expanded-tweet Cards, but the main focus of these new features is still to… Read more »
I may disagree with them about the benefits of a hard paywall, or the wisdom of cutting 90 percent of the newspaper’s blogs, but at least the owners of the Orange… Read more »