NewsRewired: Mobile news and services
This is a live blog. I work to be as accurate and comprehensive as possible, but you might see some grammatical errors and the odd typo. Ilicco Elia has been working at Reuters for 20 years. He got...
View ArticleEconomist reports success of mobile phone mag sales – Press Gazette
Kevin: Dominic Ponsford with Press Gazette reports on a novel new scheme by the Economist that sends a text message to readers in the UK to see summaries of the stories in the next issue and order a...
View ArticleHulu Unveils Subscription Service For $9.99 a Month – Media Decoder Blog –...
Kevin: Stunning move by Hulu. $10 a month buys you access (in the US) to every espisode of every show that its affiliated networks provide. That's on your computer, your iPhone, your iPad, some...
View ArticleAnnenberg-Oxford Summer Institute: Continuing the Conversation
A couple of years ago, I spoke at the Oxford Internet Institute, and after my talk, the conversation carried on via Strange Attractor and the blogs written by some of the students there. I went back to...
View ArticleThe Lord of the Rings OS: One OS to rule them all?
Convergence – the combination of multiple entertainment and communication devices and platforms – has been one of those terms tossed around for decades. I first wrote about it in the mid-1990s when I...
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#ONA10: Real-time, mobile coverage
Tomorrow I fly to Washington ahead of the Online News Association conference. I’ll be doing a pre-conference session next Thursday on real-time coverage with Kathryn Corrick, digital media consultant...
View ArticleNPR head of apps: Mobile media doesn’t mean on the move anymore
In the UK, nearly half of the population uses a smartphone – that’s 60 percent of all mobile phone users – according to data from eMarketer. In the US, two-thirds of mobile users access the internet on...
View ArticleICYMI – Gannett at #ONA14: Data-driven insights with Chartbeat
I missed the Online News Association conference last week because I had just returned from Asia speaking at the WAN-IFRA India conference and doing some data journalism seminars with journalists in...
View ArticleMobile kills the 24-hour-linear TV news channel
Last night, I was where I have been on so many election nights in the last two decades, I was in the newsroom working with my staff to deliver real-time election results to our audiences on desktop,...
View ArticleStrengthening communities and strengthening journalism
When I started as the executive editor of two Gannett newspapers in Wisconsin, I said that my strategy was about building a community platform, and I think that Jim Brady, founder of Billy Penn, a...
View ArticlePodcast revolution driven by mobile devices with four wheels
Podcasting has been buzzing over the last year in the US. One reason is smart content, with NPR’s Serial, which was download at least 80 million times. However, there is a tech aspect at play as well....
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Austrian Publisher Finds Secret to Video Revenue
In today’s newsletter, we look to Austria. Pivot to video became a much-maligned strategy, especially for digital pure plays that were focused on video as a way to grow organically on Facebook with the...
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The Pivot to Paid in Podcasting and Vulture Fund, Alden Global, Under...
The front view of what once was the the USA Today/Gannett Building in McLean, Virginia. It still houses USAToday and Gannett, but also Tegna, the former broadcasting division of Gannett, which was spun...
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How publishers are experimenting with TikTok, the latest hot short video app
@pjf the Mad Scientist, by Stephen Edmonds, from Flickr Publisher and broadcasters are always looking for ways to reach young audiences, the latest way to do that is the short-form video app, TikTok....
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Quartz to kill its chatbot-inspired mobile app
20150225 02 Sad Robot, by David Wilson, from Flickr, Some Rights Reserved Top of today’s newsletter: Quartz is killing its Brief app, which emulated a chatbot but was really driven by editors giving...
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