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#17 — Building thriving news businesses against the odds

Hey! Didn’t have time to read the publishing highlights this week? We’ve picked out the best bits for you right here. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 💯 Top picks Building a thriving news business against the odds [https://podcast.substack.com/p/007-jessica-lessin-founder-of-the-information-shares-how-she-built-a-thriving-news-business-against-the-odds?utm_campaign=Publisher%20Weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_

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#16 — Are subscriptions bad for democracy?

Hey there – it’s that time of week for your hand-picked reads about all things publishing 😎Enjoy! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 💯 Top picks Are subscriptions bad for democracy? [https://on.substack.com/p/subscriptions-are-bad-for-democracy-no-way-ba2?utm_campaign=Publisher%20Weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter] The team at Substack argue nope:

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#15 — Thriving in a digital world as a publisher

Hey there! Welcome to this weeks issue of Publisher Weekly. We’ve included even more hand-picked news topics this week for your reading pleasure. Enjoy, and see you next time! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 💯 Top picks Thriving in a digital world (as a small publisher) [https://fs.blog/ben-thompson/?utm_campaign=Publisher%20Weekly&

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#14 — Insights from an indie journalist

Hey there! This weeks issue of Publisher Weekly includes some insightful stories about how publishers of all sizes are testing new models and gaining traction with memberships, from large media and news outlets to indie creators. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 💸 Business models What this indie journalist learned after asking users for money for

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#13 — How ad blockers can grow your subscriptions

Hey! Sliding into your inbox with this week’s issue of Publisher Weekly with the highlights of the most recent industry news and insights. If you enjoy this week’s edition we’d be eternally grateful if you could help to spread the word and share on Twitter or Facebook!

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#12 — Why readers pay for news!

Happy weekend! Here’s another edition of Publisher Weekly, examining the good and bad news across the industry over the last week. We’d be incredibly thankful if you enjoy this week’s edition and share it on Twitter or Facebook! Everyone spreading the word helps, and we believe there’

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#11 — Subscription publishers worry about password sharing

Business models The next big traffic wave: browser recommendations [https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2018/08/firefox-offers-recommendations-with-latest-test-pilot-experiment-advance/?utm_campaign=Publisher%20Weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter] As Facebook’s traffic sent to publishers continues to plummet, there’s something big brewing to replace it: web browsers

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#10 — Facebook puts $4.5 million into membership accelerator

It’s hot outside in most parts of Europe, and in the Northern Hemisphere it’s the time of year when everyone goes on vacation, slowing down any actual work getting done. That applies to the media industry too, and it’s quiet out there right now! As a result,

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#9 — The best news story formats tested by the BBC

Business models Bloomberg takes a stab at overhauling the display ad [https://digiday.com/media/bloomberg-media-takes-stab-overhauling-display-ad/?utm_campaign=Publisher%20Weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter] It’s not like basically every media conglomerate has tried to revive advertising repeatedly, but Bloomberg thinks it’s got something

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#8 — BuzzFeed goes programmatic

Business models Another publisher feels the viral chill [https://thelogic.co/news/digital-media/diply-feels-viral-chill-facebooks-algorithm-change-leads-to-plummeting-traffic-and-layoffs/?utm_campaign=Publisher%20Weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter] Over the space of 2018 so far we’ve seen a number of publishers [https://digiday.com/media/collateral-damage-facebooks-news-feed-changes-begins-pile/?utm_campaign=Publisher%20Weekly&

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#7 — More than 11,000 people are paying for email newsletters!

Business models Here’s what two researchers found in a yearlong quest for journalism innovation [http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/54-newsrooms-9-countries-and-9-core-ideas-heres-what-two-researchers-found-in-a-yearlong-quest-for-journalism-innovation/?utm_campaign=5001e2a20f-dailylabemail3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Daily%20Lab%20email%20list&utm_term=0_d68264fd5e-5001e2a20f-396019889] Getting insight into the state of the wider media

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#6 — Giving up control to platforms

Hey there, reader! We’re trying something new this week that’ll sort this newsletter into regular coverage areas to try and narrow the trends we look at as well as give you some regularity about what to expect from us. Hope you like it, and see you next week!

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#5 — Should news orgs copy Netflix?

We’re sending you this a day late, but better later than never! It’s interesting to see continued growth across the spectrum in the paid subscription business, but it makes us wonder: where does subscription fatigue set in? As we load up with Netflix, Spotify, The New York Times

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#4 — Social networks are testing paid subscriptions

It’s been a big week for the subscription business model as even the biggest platform players turn to experiment with encouraging paid communities. Grab a coffee and dig in! If you love this, hate it, or anything else, feel free to reply and say hello! Otherwise, we’d love

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#3 — Political advertising crossfire

Happy Sunday! We’re back with the latest happenings in the industry, from doom and gloom to new business models. It’s a little difficult to avoid the constant onslaught of news affecting publishers out of Facebook, but you’ll see in this newsletter that there’s hope beyond the

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