American Press Institute Asks: Does Your Media Business Need a Work Redesign? PLUS Salon Shuts Off Comments, Leans Into Newsletters

September 07, 2021

I'm back from a long holiday weekend, and the American Press Institute has an excellent bit of research and great actionable ideas on how to redesign media workplaces. This is important work as we consider what is next as the pandemic approaches its second year of disruptions. (I've stopped thinking that we're approaching the end of COVID-19, and I've started to think of what to do as the pandemicshifts into an endemic disease.) Let's accept that work has changed, as Digiday declares the five-day in-office workweek as dead.

Salon is shutting off comments as it finds a vanishingly small number of people actually use them, and it decides to focus on ... wait for it ... newsletters.

Advertising is changing. There is some excellent advice from paid content and analytics company Piano on building loyal, engaged audiences.

Media news includes forecasts about AR growth and also Vice poaching some BBC talent.

Rethinking Media Working Practices

Local journalism can’t be saved on the backs of overworked leaders whose careers are breaking them.

Can work design be applied in newsrooms? Don’t bother making the argument that the media industry is “different.” The experts disagree with you. “If you’ve basically said ‘I can’t do anything differently because we’re different,’” said Stanford professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, “you have defined your problem as unsolvable…and that whatever problem has presented itself is going […]

Even with many employers’ fall plans in flux, one thing is clear: The five-day office workweek is dead in the media industry.

Salon had seen the nature of its comments section change, as disinformation, misinformation and COVID lies made it harder to moderate.

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Media News: Advertising, AR and Vice Poaches Two Rising BBC Stars

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Groundbreaking research on the value of a $500 billion global industry My apologies to the Freakonomics Radio podcast for borrowing their headline. But it summarizes perfectly a question on the minds of businesspeople for more than a century. The question is especially relevant for the digital advertising business, which promised to be more measurable, effective, …

Augmented reality (AR), a popular tool for entertainment, is expected to one day replace smartphones, according to GlobalData. The data and analytics company

Press Gazette has been reporting on British journalism without fear or favour since 1965. Our mission is to provide a news and information service which helps the UK journalism.