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Don't Look Now: The Digital Ad Economy Is Heading For a Correction
Ad Age - Ian Schafer
It's been "the year of mobile" since 2008. But you could make a pretty good case for 2014. After all, by the end of 2013, more people spent more time …
Paywall, Paid Content and Subscription News
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How Readers Get to News Sites: Social, Search and Direct
journalism.org - By Amy Mitchell and Mark Jurkowitz
How someone gets to a news organization’s website says a lot about the level of engagement and loyalty he or she displays toward the site and its …
Bloomberg Media Makes First Moves Toward New Digital Products
Mashable - Jason Abbruzzese
Justin Smith has taken the first major steps in his revamp of Bloomberg Media with the hiring of former AOL Live president Nathan Richardson and Inside.com chief content officer Gabriel Snyder. Richardson
Slate gets into the membership business with Slate Plus
Nieman Lab - Justin Ellis
Slate hopes its readers want to become members. This week the site plans to launch Slate Plus for $5 a month or $50 a year. The membership program is something like a modified digital subscription, but
Readers who still click bookmarks are more loyal customers for news sites than Facebook flybys
Nieman Lab - Joseph Lichterman
A new study from Pew finds that users who visit a site directly spend much more time there than those who arrive via Facebook or a search engine. Anyone who runs a website knows it: Not all visitors are
NYT Now is a mobile news platform with a dedicated staff curating stories
Engadget - Sarah Silbert
SXSW is a veritable playground for journalists, with panels catering to media professionals and -- most importantly -- no shortage of free food. We're not surprised, then, that The New York Times chose
What will digital life look like in a decade? Some predictions, from the optimistic to mind control
Nieman Lab - Caroline O’Donovan
From augmented reality to cat videos, big thinkers weigh in on where the Internet is after 25 years, and where it will be in 10 more. Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s initial proposal
Immersive storytelling: What The Times has learnt from interactive features
newsrewired.com - Submitted by Paul McNally
The Times and Sunday Times’s experiments in ‘immersive’ storytelling could help the publisher make improvements to its main editorial content …
What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: What happens when robot journalists produce stories that are “good enough”
Nieman Lab - John Wihbey
Guessing the location of tweets without geolocation, tracking who’ll pay for online news, and the conditions that encourage learning on Facebook: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic
Embrace the unbundling: The Boston Globe is betting it’ll be stronger split up than unified
Nieman Lab - Justin Ellis
The Globe is switching to a metered paywall and turning Boston.com into an independent news site. Now the paper plans to increase its digital presence with new sites covering technology and religion. model
Measuring how much print newspapers matter
Nieman Lab - Caroline O'Donovan
The Boston Globe brought my attention to a paper recently published in the journal Political Communication: “Dead Newspapers and Citizens’ Civic Engagement,” by Lee Shaker. As the title suggests, Shaker