The newsonomics of the Quartz business launch
Quartz — Atlantic Media’s business news startup, set to take flight later this month — may be bursting into the marketplace at a gem of a time. Tepid growth is taking hold in the U.S., with second...
View ArticleWhat happens when news organizations move from “beats” to “obsessions”?
I’ll be honest: There aren’t a lot of “future of news” meta-posts these days that get me to stop the other things I’m doing and read them, closely, from beginning to end. One recent exception, though,...
View ArticleThe rise of the fluid beat structure
A favorite editor of mine used to say that you can tell a news organization’s values by what it chooses not to cover. I always liked that, especially as it applies to news judgment in a content-choked...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of Quartz, 19 months in
Quartz, at the tender age of 19 months, can hardly be considered a father to Vox, FiveThirtyEight, and The Upshot. Clearly, though, it’s a major influence. It marked and followed an explanatory way...
View ArticleWhat’s in a name? Three startups talk about the value of newsroom titles
Gannett is right: Newsroom job titles do matter. The largest newspaper company in the United States is revising its job titles, bringing in some that would have seemed foreign to newsrooms not all that...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of mixing old and new
Each morning, 135,000 people get Wall Street Journal editor Gerry Baker’s The 10 Point, his one-year-old touts email on the best of the Journal that day. Around the same hour, 600,000 people get The...
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