Demotix Partners with Publish2 News Exchange on Independent News Photo...
We’re excited to announce that Demotix, the award-winning open photo agency for independent journalists, will begin offering content via Publish2 News Exchange when we launch photo support later this...
View ArticleClay Shirky’s right that syndication’s getting disrupted — but not in the...
In my contribution to the Nieman Journalism Lab’s 2011 Prediction series, I agree with Clay Shirky’s prediction about the disruption of the traditional news syndication model, but disagree (yes, I...
View ArticleContent (Re)Packaging: Curation and Syndication in the Age of Unbundled...
I’m going to be speaking at the American Press Institute seminar on Creating the Digital User Experience, May 12 – May 13, 2011. Here’s my session on “Content (Re)Packaging: Curation and Syndication in...
View ArticlePublish2 Update: Network Growth and New Business Model
Many people have reached out to us recently and asked, “How’s Publish2 doing? You guys have been very quiet for the last few months.” That’s because we’ve had our heads down rolling out the full...
View ArticleHow to Make It Easy for Newspapers to Link on the Web
There has been a great deal of debate in the last few days about why mainstream news organizations in general and newspapers in particular don’t link out to sources from their stories. Many...
View ArticleSolving Big Universal Problems
The best that any company can hope for is to find a big, universal problem that nobody else has solved. It seems we’ve hit upon that problem, based on the reaction to “How to Make It Easy for Newsrooms...
View ArticleThe Real Cost of Newsroom Inefficiency
How many times today did someone in your newsroom copy and paste content from one system to another? Or move content by logging into multiple systems or emailing files around to editors? How much time...
View ArticleLegacy Editorial Systems and CMSs Are Killing the News Industry’s Digital...
The news industry’s digital transformation is being thwarted and outright threatened by legacy editorial and content management systems that were not designed to build a bridge from old to new. Here...
View ArticleOld Dogs New Tricks and Crappy Editorial Systems
”You can’t fix what you won’t admit is wrong.” says Digital First Media CEO John Paton of the newspaper industry. That much needed tough love applies to the newspaper industry’s struggle with legacy...
View ArticleLegacy Newspaper Editorial Systems Really Are Killing the Industry
The newspaper industry has staked its future on failed legacy newspaper editorial systems that require “tremendous effort and patience“. GateHouse Media could not implement this old desktop software...
View Article5 Types of Advertising That Are NOT Native Advertising
When a term is as hot and hyped as “native advertising”, it’s inevitable that everyone will want to appropriate it to describe everything they are doing. Which means the term will be widely...
View ArticleNative Advertising in Print Could Save Newspapers
Premium pricing for premium value has made native advertising the great hope for publishers desperate to escape the death spiral of plunging CPM prices for display advertising. For newspapers, premium...
View ArticleWho Will Control the Native Advertising Value Chain?
The display advertising value chain is dominated by ad exchanges and programmatic buying. But who will control the emerging market for native advertising, which depends on human factors to drive real...
View ArticleExplaining Native Advertising to Publishers
Despite all the hype about native advertising, many publishers are still unclear about what native advertising is and why they should run native ads on their sites. Publishers need to understand the...
View Article5 Technology Requirements for Native Advertising Platforms
The excitement around native advertising has spawned a proliferation of “native advertising platforms.” The market is ready to move past the hype and choose the best technology. Here are five key...
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