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Legacy media has an age problem.  As it stands, the printed press readership skews older and younger audiences who have little appetite to pick up the practice of reading physical papers. As print’s audience diminishes, publishers have refocused their efforts on building their digital offerings. However, it is said that it takes 2.5 digital subscriptions to compensate for...

Few journalists have exposed government wrongdoing in Latin America quite like Gustavo Gorriti.The Peruvian journalist has uncovered some of the hemisphere’s biggest corruption scandals — and suffered the consequences. Having risen to prominence in the 1980s chronicling the rise of the brutal Shining Path Marxist guerrilla insurgency, he soon found official malfeasance a rich target. When he...

A US investigative news outlet that has just hired nine new journalists to its team puts its ability to invest down to its flourishing subscriber strategy.The Lever was launched as a newsletter in 2020 by David Sirota, a speechwriter and senior adviser for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. Sirota has also been a columnist for Guardian...

TikTok will voluntarily suspend its new app TikTok Lite's reward programme while it tries to resolve EU concerns, the company said on X social media platform on Wednesday.The European Commission is using its Digital Services Act (DSA) rules to force major online companies to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content on their platforms, with TikTok...

Having interviewed dozens of publishers, editors and other news industry professionals for more than 20 Revenue Roundup articles I’ve written for Editor & Publisher, I’ve discovered generating revenues remains a constant challenge. Some news outlets are reinventing special sections and editions, a traditional segment of most newspapers, to attract more readers and new and loyal advertisers. Here...

Last year, The Times announced the creation of a new interview franchise that will provide readers and listeners with intimate, in-depth conversations with the world’s most fascinating people. Today, we’re thrilled to unveil “The Interview,” launching Saturday, April 27. Origen: Introducing 'The Interview,' a new weekly interview franchise from The New York Times | Editor and Publisher

Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Now Comes the Hard Part.After President Biden signs the bill to force a sale of the video app or ban it, the legislation will face court challenges, a shortage of Origen: Congress Passed a Bill That Could Ban TikTok. Here’s What Happens Next. - The New York Times

A large majority of Americans see the freedom of the press as highly important to the well-being of society. But many express concerns about potential restrictions on press freedoms in the United States – and say that political and financial interests already have a lot of influence on news organizations. These findings come from a new Pew...

If you think back to the last news article you read on any development in AI, what was the image they illustrated with? It may have been a robot with eerie human features or mysterious lines of code on a blue background. I’ve used those kinds of images in my articles about AI. Origen: What’s wrong with the...

Newsletters are the darling of the digital media industry again.Publishers like Axios, Eater, The Guardian, theSkimm and Snopes are either growing or revamping their newsletter offerings, tailoring new emails to specific audiences with more personality-driven content (and, in some cases, with the help of automation to produce more newsletters) designed to get subscribers to sign up for...