Nearly half of local news outlets’ digital subscribers are “zombie” readers who visit the website less than once a month, according to a data analysis in 45 markets by Northwestern University’s Medill Spiegel Research Center.
Origen: Nearly half of local...
By his own reckoning, Rupert Murdoch was supposed to die a fortnight ago, on a Tuesday afternoon.The media mogul scribbled the moment of his demise on a piece of paper in 2001 and flourished it during an interview taking...
Traffic to leading news websites in Australia fell sharply following the decision by Facebook last week to ban them from the platform, according to Press Gazette analysis. In a decision that has since been reversed following a week of negotiations...
Over the past few years, during the US presidential campaign and then after, during the first year of a new administration, many of us in the press came to wonder why the old rules of journalism no longer seemed to apply.How was...
It sounded like a riddle, the question the new boss posed to Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron in a 2013 meeting.“Why are you taking the pain,” Amazon founder Jeff Bezos asked Baron and a small group of executives...
On July 30, 2013, Martin Baron left The Washington Post building and crossed 15th Street for an extremely rare happy hour drink.The publisher, Katharine Weymouth, had asked to meet him at a hotel bar. She needed to tell her...
Google “What is Clubhouse?” and you’ll find a flurry of articles written in the past few weeks about this fast-growing social network. It’s not yet a year old, and much of the buzz stems from the fact that Clubhouse...
Google “What is Clubhouse?” and you’ll find a flurry of articles written in the past few weeks about this fast-growing social network. It’s not yet a year old, and much of the buzz stems from the fact that Clubhouse...
In The Usual Suspects (1995), there’s a scene in which the true extent of ur-villain Keyser Söze’s evil is clarified for the viewer. A gang of Hungarians has burst into Söze’s home and taken his wife and children hostage....
Journalism has sometimes been a dangerous profession during the pandemic, but there has been real innovation, too. In this, the third part of our series on Journalism in the Pandemic, Rachael Jolley, former editor-in-chief of Index on Censorship and research fellow at the...
