Taking down paywall not only serves news mission, but also increases revenue
Case study from News Revenue Hub about the Forward completely removing its paywall
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This week’s reads
Links to and excerpts from articles about Search (AI and publishers, PR, entities, and brands), what “intifada” and “from the river to the sea” mean to Israelis and Palestinians and how they are understood (or not) elsewhere, on the terrible costs of allowing a Russian victory in Ukraine, and a bit more about the Forward.
Nonprofit Buys 22 Newspapers in Maine
The National Trust for Local News, a nonprofit that was started in 2021, will buy the newspapers from Masthead Maine, a private company that owns most of the independent media outlets in Maine, including five of its six daily newspapers.
The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok
The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok A lot of good observations, context, connection-making, and generally clear thinking in this piece about social media and platforms in general and how they inevitably (?) destroy themselves through their “business models.” Or rather, perhaps, how “montetization” destroys digital “products” built around or for online coomunities. This is enshittification: Surpluses are … Read more
Publishers Opt Out of the Pageview Rat Race
“Pageviews are nice, but if you can drive revenue other ways, go for it.”