Why Poets & Quants has been successful: The journalism
Matt Symonds of Forbes writes about the Poets & Quants website, which covers business schools and was founded by business journalist John Byrne. Symonds writes, “Instead, Byrne moved to the West Coast after leaving Businessweek at the end of 2009 and began work on Poets&quants.com. He knew the business school landscape well, having created and launched the […]
American Inno connects websites with ACBJ papers
American Inno, which covers startups, technology and growth in 14 markets, is connecting its websites with its sister business news publications at American City Business Journals. A post on its website states, “By being on this platform, Inno will be able to tell more stories and reach more people, as well as benefit from the […]
Why Sportico moves its launch date up three months
Kayleigh Barber of Digiday writes about sports business news site Sportico, which moved up its launch date by three months. Barber writes, “Originally set to launch in September during a ‘confluence of all the sports,’ Sportico CEO Dick Glover said his team decided to move up its launch to June 30 to cover the reopening […]
Forbes adding shoppable videos on its website
Forbes is working with KERV Interactive, a digital ad video platform, to create branded and shoppable content on Forbes.com, reports Sara Guaglione of Publishers Daily. Guaglione reports, “The partnership means Forbes can offer advertisers an opportunity to market individual products throughout a video. Viewers can click on different items in a video, such as a pair of pants someone […]
Reuters plans to put many articles behind a paywall
Reuters is planning on putting many of its articles behind a subscription paywall, the news service told employees, reports Tim Dotan of The INformation. Dotan reports, “Reuters would become one of the last free news services to adopt a subscription business model, a sign of how much the news industry has shifted away from relying on advertising. […]
How Sportico was created and launched during a pandemic
Seth Everett of the “Sports with Friends” podcast interviewed Sportico CEO Dick Glover about the creation of the sports business news website, which launched this week by Penske Media. “The ideas was hatched six or seven months ago,” said Glover. “It was just finding the right people to do it.” The site is run editorially by Scott […]
Why RIA Intel has been successful
Greg Bartalos, the editor of RIA Intel, a website from Institutional Investor, writes about the reason for its success as it turns one year old. Bartalos writes, “Over several weeks and interviews, pressure built as I struggled to find a reporter. I was admittedly extremely picky but, given that RIA Intel was a new publication (and small […]
Curbed is closing its San Francisco website
Real estate news site Curbed is closing its San Francisco website, writes Brock Keeling of Curbed. Keeling writes, “Effective today, we’re stopping production on this site. But it won’t be the end of Curbed stories about San Francisco and the Bay Area. Starting Monday, June 29, those stories will appear on Curbed.com, our flagship site, in […]
Time launches personal finance site with former Money editor
Time and Red Ventures have launched a personal finance site called NextAdviser being run by former Money editor in chief Adam Auriemma. NextAdvisor is free and will feature strategy guides, perspectives on the economy, analysis of the latest tools and products and reported stories, focusing on the fundamentals of financial wellness, from saving, managing debt, and […]
Examining the workplace culture at tech publisher Digital Trends
Kayleigh Barber of Digiday writes about the workplace culture at tech news site Digital Trends, where 70 percent of the employees are white males. Barber writes, “Tech publisher Digital Trends is a rare media success story. A bootstrapped, privately owned company, DT is profitable at a time where many media companies of all sizes are feeling compressed and are […]
