The Newsonomics of the FT as an Internet retailer
[Each week, our friend Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of the news business for the Lab.] Back in 2002, the...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of global media imperative
Let’s elevate, for a moment. Let’s take a NASA view of the media landscape, enjoying the clear, whole-earth picture of our struggling news planet. The wide view would tell us that, although the U.S....
View ArticleThe newsonomics of Why Paywalls Now?
Though it’s spring training season, forget Moneyball — think Paywall. The money now flowing into newspaper companies due to paywalls is getting to be seriously countable. For the New York Times...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of a news company of the future
What will news companies look like in 2018? How will they operate differently? That future is coming into focus. While many publishers’ vision is still quite blurry, it’s the Financial Times that is...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of GAFA’s global reach
The median age of a Google employee: 29. The median age of a newspaper company employee, in the United States: 45. That’s not the most telling number of our time, but it’s a great proxy, and another...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of climbing the ad food chain
The numbers are sobering. While digital advertising has been growing at a 15 percent pace annually in the United States, the digital ad sales of news companies have largely plateaued, struggling to...
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