by Max Willens | May 10, 2021 | Media
As society’s awareness of its iniquity and imbalances grows, media companies are belatedly trying to make their operations more diverse and equitable. A news vertical launched by BBC News last year is trying to do something similar with its carbon footprint. In the...
by Max Willens | May 7, 2021 | Media
As publisher interest in subscription revenue continues to pick up, media observers continue to wonder when, or if, a premium news access bundle might emerge. A startup called Subscribd, launched by a one-time 30 Under 30 honoree, seemed a little eager to find out. ...
by Max Willens | May 4, 2021 | Media
Twitter is slowly assembling a media ecosystem for media elites where very little media appears to be for sale. Twitter today announced it had acquired Scroll, the long-gestating subscription service that offers an ad-free browsing experience across a network of...
by Max Willens | May 4, 2021 | Media
After years inside a company whose CEO is not interested in media, Verizon Media has been gobbled up by a private equity giant that has grown quite interested in media. Its new owners, Apollo Global Management, could use the ad-tech infrastructure to deal the rest of...
by Max Willens | Apr 30, 2021 | Media
To prepare for the coming third-party cookie changes, publishers have been busy stitching together all the information they have about their readers and looking for ways to gather more first-party data. Gannett is no exception, though its efforts are designed to...
