Tag Archives: journalism
How this political news site generated a thousand paying subscribers
Ben Cohen, founder of the Daily Banter
The iPad was supposed to save journalism. Why didn’t it?
Why BuzzFeed is pivoting to Hollywood
While so many publishers are “pivoting” to online video, we’re now seeing some players like BuzzFeed and Conde Nast trying to develop programming for television and film.
Why are digital publishers suddenly so interested in Hollywood? I explain the trend in this video.
The Facebook page purge has already begun
Facebook pays for content. Therefore, it’s a media company
Recently, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg was asked in an interview whether Facebook is a media company. “At our heart we’re a tech company,” Sandberg said. “We hire engineers. We don’t hire reporters. No one is a journalist. We don’t cover the news. “
Well, that’s not exactly true. In this video, I explain why.
This travel site generated a billion video views and is moving into the U.S. market
This hyperlocal news network in New Jersey is thriving
Mike Shapiro, founder of TAPinto
Social platforms aren’t producing meaningful revenue for publishers
Facebook. YouTube. Snapchat. Apple News. All are platforms that have entered into revenue sharing partnerships with publishers. Here’s the thing though: those partnerships aren’t actually producing much money for the publishers. Were they wrong to sign a deal with the devil? I explore the topic in this video.
Facebook is a victim of its own scale
There have been a number of disturbing reports coming out of Facebook recently, from its allowing Russian trolls to spend $100k on influencing our elections to the recent ProPublica investigation that revealed it allows advertisers to target anti-semites. As I explain in this video, almost all of these controversies can be traced back to one source: Facebook’s quest to operate at massive scale.