The Ankler is starting a creator economy publication
Entertainment industry publication The Ankler is starting an entertainment business trade publication focused on the creator economy called Like & Subscribe, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer reports, “The new product, authored by veteran tech and entertainment journalist Natalie Jarvey, will launch as a standalone Substack newsletter, separately from The Ankler, and will be priced at $129 […]
What’s behind Forbes’ diversification strategy
Bron Maher of Press Gazette writes about how Forbes magazine has diversified its revenue through other businesses such as events. Maher writes, “The summit, a conference for leading figures in European marketing, is part of the publisher’s strategy of building up niche but influential reader communities. Forbes has separately launched a private members’ club in Madrid, with […]
A look at the FT’s success in the US
Christiana Sciaudone writes for A Media Operator about the success of British publications in the United States and interviewed Matt Fottrell, the Financial Times president in the United States. Sciaudone writes, “The Financial Times has had a U.S. presence for decades, going back to 1997. But about six years ago, it really started investing and looking to […]
How a biz TV anchor has switched to a podcast format
Tim Kiladze of The (Toronto) Globe and Mail writes about former BNNBloomberg anchor Amber Kanwar, who has started an investing podcast. Kiladze writes, “Starting this week, Ms. Kanwar, who left BNN in November, will host a twice-weekly show called In the Money with Amber Kanwar. The program will be available in an audio-only format, but […]
City AM is ending its Monday print edition
City AM, a publication covering London business news, has confirmed it is ending its Monday print edition and will invest instead in more video and audio products, reports Charlotte Tobitt of Press Gazette. Tobitt reports, “However City AM editor Christian May said the brand will ‘retain the ability to publish on a Monday when we want […]
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 […]
