The biggest challenge that many traditional media companies face isn’t about giving up print for digital, or designing better websites or apps — it’s about finding ways to change their culture to be more agile and promote experimentation
Ben Thompson started his blog less than two years ago, without a nationally recognized brand name or following, and launched a membership model less than six months ago — but he’s already making a comfortable living from his audience
Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, is launching a new journalism startup with media entrepreneur Steven Brill that the two say will pay writers $100,000 or more per article. But many are skeptical of the venture’s economic viability
As a freelance foreign correspondent for Current TV and the New York Times’ Jerusalem bureau, Jaron Gilinsky spent much of his time trying to find work and trying to get paid — so he built an Airbnb-style marketplace for professional freelancers called Storyhunter
The Intercept — a magazine that is part of Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media — has written a piece about the departure of Matt Taibbi, who was supposed to be running another of First Look’s magazines, and the glimpse inside the company is not a pretty one
The internet has disrupted media in much the same way it has manufacturing of smartphones or the IT business, says Ben Thompson — value has moved to the edges, to specialized creators and to discovery platforms, leaving media companies in the middle
Neuze says it has developed a revolutionary product that provides an easy-to-carry news summary curated by journalists that requires no power. It’s an inside joke on newspapers — but it still makes you think about what benefits print media had over the web
De Correspondent, the Dutch crowdfunding success story, has built a $2-million base of subscribers in just a year — and it has also learned a lot about how being open with readers and seeing them as partners can change the way that journalism works
The NYT is laying off more staff and shutting down one of its new mobile apps, saying it failed to gain enough of an audience — but the paper needs to think differently about how it connects with its audience, not just launch more micro-paywalls
New-media companies like BuzzFeed, Gawker, VICE Media and Tumblr are all expanding rapidly both in New York itself and around the world — almost all are moving into new buldings or taking over more of the ones they are in
