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The newsonomics of oblivion
Editor’s Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. So, how long do newspapers...
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The newsonomics of 1, 2, 3, 4
Editor’s Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab. Ah, the joys of print — and...
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The newsonomics of global media imperative
Let’s elevate, for a moment. Let’s take a NASA view of the media landscape, enjoying the clear, whole-earth picture of our struggling news planet. The wide view would tell us that, although the U.S....
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Looking to Europe for news-industry innovation, Part 1: Sanoma’s big bundled...
The news business is an insular one. It is still largely bound by national borders, one of the few industries largely uninfluenced by the rampant globalization of business. That’s beginning to change...
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Looking to Europe for news-industry innovation, Part 2: Schibsted’s stunning...
What can the U.S. learn from European news innovation? Yesterday, we focused on Finland’s Sanoma and its worldwide leadership in digital circulation revenue. Today we look at Schibsted, now the eighth...
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Looking to Europe for news-industry innovation, Part 3: The Swiss...
In the first two parts of this series, we’ve focused on Schibsted’s classifieds and online services innovations and on Sanoma’s pioneering digital circulation initiatives. Today we look at a small...
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The newsonomics of selling more stuff
It’s a certified trend: Thanks to digital media, we’re consuming more stuff. This week, we saw the fairly astounding news that mobile minutes are doubling the amount of time Americans are spending...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of the German press’ tipping year
HAMBURG — Angela Merkel’s resounding reelection may have ushered in an era of unexpected political stability in Germany. If only the German press shared in that sense of calm. Instead, the German daily...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of “Little Data,” data scientists, and conversion specialists
OSLO — Arthur Sulzberger surprised some people recently when asked what he would do differently in the digital transition, given hindsight. Hire more engineers, he said. TWEET It wasn’t an off-the-cuff...
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The newsonomics of Schibsted’s VGTV and web-native TV
AUSTIN — What’s one of the first principles of building a new digital business? “Make sure you lose money for at least three years,” VG CEO and editor Torry Pedersen told a London publishing crowd last...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of selling Cars.com
Sometimes, you see the train wreck coming. Tony Ridder, the last CEO of Knight Ridder, saw the classifieds pileup ahead and would talk about it in our company meetings by the mid-’90s: the replacement...
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In Sweden, traditional tabloid rivals are taking their battle to viral sites
Thomas Mattsson, editor-in-chief of the Swedish tabloid Expressen, set a bold goal for his staff last summer: Develop, build, and launch a viral news site — think the more LOL elements of BuzzFeed — in...
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Schibsted wants to circumvent the mobile adblocking apocalypse by making...
Imagine opening up an app, scrolling through an article, being interrupted by a full-size Clash of Clans video, trying to tap a microscopic “×” to close out of the video, and accidentally tapping into...
View ArticleSchibsted is pooling its tech and product resources, with a wary eye towards...
Scandinavian media giant Schibsted, which publishes titles like the Norwegian Aftenposten and Swedish Aftonbladet, is a rare success story when it comes to actually making money on digital advertising,...
View ArticleCompeting news outlets in Norway are building a new standalone site dedicated...
In Norway, fact-checking is growing up. The country of 5 million will soon get a site devoted entirely to fact-checking. Faktisk — which means “actually” or “factually” in Norwegian — is an unusual...
View ArticleSchibsted está creando nuevos formatos editoriales, desde mensajes hasta...
El año pasado, el gigante editorial escandinavo Schibsted reestructuró su equipo de producto. Centralizó esfuerzos, creando un grupo de producto y tecnología unificado que trabajara transversalmente...
View ArticleSchibsted is creating new editorial formats — from messaging to personalized...
Last year, the giant Scandinavian publisher Schibsted restructured its product team. It centralized its efforts, creating one unified product and technology group that worked across all its...
View ArticleNewsonomics: In Norway, a newspaper’s digital video startup is now generating...
OSLO — Yes, there’s even a Trump Bump in Oslo. Take 56 million, the number of views VGTV has gotten so far on its “satirical masterpiece” of “tupéfabrikk,” the company’s discovery of Donald Trump’s...
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Newsonomics: The New York Times’ redesign aims to match the quality of its...
Please sign in. Those three words — a request as old as the web — now drive the strongest strategy of our news era: reader revenue. Today, The New York Times announces and starts to rollout the most...
View ArticleThe future of news (and far beyond), according to Scandinavian media giant...
‘Tis the season for trend reports. The Scandinavian media giant Schibsted’s annual trends report — part predictions, part survey research, part self-promotion — is out today, free for anyone...
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