Reuters seeks digital editor for website
Reuters is looking for a journalist with a passion for social media and an eye for detail to join the world’s biggest multimedia news organization. Based in New York, you’ll be working with the Reuters.com team to update social media platforms and edit our home page. The job requires a working knowledge of tools used […]
FT blocks content for users with ad blockers
The Financial Times has blocked content for all registered users with ad blockers installed, reports Lucinda Southern of Digiday. Southern writes, “As of this week, registered users — those who have provided their email address in exchange for a number of free articles a month, but haven’t shared any payment details — are hit with a pop-up telling them […]
ACBJ seeks digital producer for national news desk
The Digital Producer, National News Desk will build, run and sustain the online, social and mobile presence of Bizjournals.com, the national network for The Business Journals. The Digital Producer is responsible for serving a national audience with both locally and nationally generated content, crafting and conveying timely and compelling digital products that drive loyal engagement, […]
Paste ends business news section
Paste Magazine, which launched a business news section on its website back in December, is now closing that section. In an email sent to freelancers, editor Jacob Weindling wrote: Hey everyone, Unfortunately Paste is getting rid of some sections, and that includes business, and we are shifting our model to focus more on staff writers […]
Mic hires Sutton to cover media
Mic has hired Politico reporter Kelsey Sutton to cover media and politics. She will start May 15 and be based in New York. Her last day at Politico is Friday. Sutton will focus broadly on the media and on media and politics. She’ll be the first writer at Mic dedicated to covering the media. .@alexweprin@Hadas_Gold@joepompeo@petersterne@tmcgev […]
How Investor’s Biz Daily uses reader data to launch new products
Max Willens of Digiday writes about how Investor’s Business Daily uses data about its readers to launch new products. Willens writes, “Investor’s Business Daily is mining data from its logged-in readers to develop high-priced products for them. “While IBD routinely ran focus groups and surveyed its subscriber base to figure out how to serve its audience, […]
Investopedia wants to “match” financial advisors with readers
Suman Bhattacharyya of Tearsheet writes about how Investopedia.com wants to make financial advisors with its readers. Bhattacharyya writes, “The move could help solidify the publisher’s Advisor Insights platform’s reach among a specialized community of advisers and investors, making it even more valuable to advertisers and ultimately generating additional revenue. “‘Our aspiration is to have every one of the […]
Investor’s Business Daily, one year later, thrives with apps, website
Investor’s Business Daily, which one year ago cut its five-days-per-week print newspaper down to one day, expects to record its most profitable year since the 2008 financial crisis due to the strength of its website and new digital products. Unique visitors to its Investors.com website have increased by more than 200 percent in the past […]
How Monster uses “How Now Wow” content to boost traffic
Anastasia Dyakovskaya of NewsCred interviewed Monster.com managing editor Margaret Magnarelli about hits news content strategy. Dyakovskaya writes, “In just two years, Margaret Magnarelli, Managing Editor and Head of Content at Monster, has helped catapult the site’s viewership to 43 million unique visitors and 96 million pageviews in 2016 – an 18 percent increase over the […]
The Information launches new newsletter with opinion
Laura Hazard Owen of Nieman Journalism Lab writes Tuesday about tech news site The Information’s new email newsletter to subscribers called Briefing, which is full of opinions about the news of the day. Owen writes, “The Information’s Briefing doesn’t really aim to be a Techmeme-like, factual snapshot of the biggest news of the day. Rather, ‘we […]
