Washington Post announces start of third newsroom
Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray sent out the following on Friday: Dear All, Over the last few months, colleagues from the newsroom, opinion and business teams have focused on creating and developing a plan for WP Ventures, formerly known as the “Third Newsroom.” The goal is to explore how The Washington Post can effectively grow our […]
Bloomberg’s Micklethwait: Paywalls safest way to ensure jobs
Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait called paywalls “the safest way to guarantee journalistic jobs,” reports Bron Maher of Press Gazette. Maher writes, “He said there were two major reasons to adopt paywalls. “‘The first is that paywalls really are the safest way to guarantee journalistic jobs. There are lots of reasons why The Economist has overtaken other weekly magazines, […]
Wired UK shifts to quarterly print schedule
Tech magazine Wired UK is dropping from a bimonthly to a quarterly print schedule, it has told subscribers, reports Bron Maher of Press Gazette. Maher reports, “In a letter sent with copies of the January and February issue of the Condé Nast-owned magazine, the UK edition of the title also told readers that it had ‘gone global’ and would […]
How tech journalist Newcomer has created a $2 million business
Simon Owens interviewed tech journalist Eric Newcomer about his career and how he’s grown his newsletter business to $2 million in revenue. Owens writes, “Major CEOs like Dara Khosrowshahi at Uber and Tony Xu at DoorDash granted him early interviews, and in January 2021 he published a deeply reported, insidery look at the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz […]
The strategy behind The Verge’s paywall
Nilay Patel, the editor in chief of The Verge, writes about its new paywall. Patel writes, “A few years ago, we decided the only real way to survive all this was to stand apart and bet on our own website so that we could remain independent of these platforms and their algorithms. We didn’t want to […]
Reuters expands digital subscription to Australia, New Zealand
Reuters has expanded its digital subscription strategy for its website and mobile app to Australia and New Zealand. The subscription plan will be available to users in Australia for A$1.50 and New Zealand for NZ$1.50 a week. There are no introductory offers or surprise price increases. Earlier this year, Reuters launched digital subscriptions in Europe, […]
Tech site The Verge is adding a paywall
Tech news site The Verge, part of Vox Media, is going to add a paywall for its website, reports Maxwell Tani of Semafor. Tani reports, “On Tuesday, the company will also be launching a sitewide subscription to its technology vertical, The Verge. (Status reported earlier this year that Vox was weighing paywalling it.) Beginning this week, the Verge will […]
Ex-Business Insider EIC Carlson starts Dynamo
Nicholas Carlson, the former editor in chief of Business Insider, has started a video company called Dynamo with the backing of people in business journalism, reports Benjamin Mullin of The New York Times. Mullin writes, “As he was leaving Business Insider, Mr. Carlson sounded out Henry Blodget, the former chief executive of the company, on his next […]
London’s City AM considers dropping Monday edition
London business newspaper City AM is looking at dropping its Monday print edition, going down to three days a week, reports Charlotte Tobitt of Press Gazette. Tobitt reports, “Staff were told on Tuesday that the planned changes will put a small number of roles at risk of redundancy. “City AM initially went down to a four-day print […]
WSJ’s Tucker brought fresh eyes to the publication
Peter Kafka interviewed Wall Street Journal editor Emma Tucker on his podcast about the changes she has made at the publication since joining in early 2023. Subscriptions are up 7% in the past year. “I felt that the Journal was in a very good place but could be more ambitious with its appeal to new digital […]
