Digital Publishing

The nonprofit news sector is robust and has room to grow

What’s happening: The Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) released an in-depth report that shows the nonprofit news industry has been growing rapidly over the past decade, and continues to offer growth opportunities for publishers. Why it matters: Nonprofit news sites largely emerged as a way to fill information gaps left by cutbacks in traditional media […]

How Analytics With AI Can help Publishers and Content Marketers

Web Analytics tools are almost as old as the web itself, the first ones operating on the server side, to help monitor resource usage, access patterns, etc. Analytics tools have become increasingly powerful at measuring and interpreting user behavior on the web to trigger digital transformation across industries ranging from retail to publishing to real […]

How The Media Falls Short In Reporting Epidemics

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Author is Yotam Ophir, Postdoctoral Fellow in Science Communication at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania Lethal infectious diseases are making headlines again, with 17 confirmed new Ebola cases reported in Congo as of August 8. The news brings back the memories of […]

The pace of nonprofit media growth is picking up

H.F. ‘Gerry’ Lenfest, left, donated tens of millions of dollars to sustain Philadelphia’s newspapers. AP Photo/Rich Schultz Charles Lewis, American University School of Communication The man best known for founding the digital classified listing service Craigslist recently gave a New York City journalism school US$20 million. His gift was big enough to prompt rebranding at […]

Would a Spotify for news distribution model work?

This article has been inspired by the recent post on Medium and the reaction of our Facebook followers on the following shared update. What people don’t realize is that despite seeing increasing consumption in news aggregators recently, they’ve been in existence for a long time. Think of Yahoo and AOL – the darling of website portals that covered […]