The Challenges of Scaling for Indie Publishers PLUS 'Troubleshooting in a Newly Converged Newsroom'

November 12, 2021

Piers Bearne of Collingswood Advisory talks about the challenges of scaling a business, any business, but with this post from What's New in Publishing, he focuses on the publishing sector. He makes a lot of points that anyone who has run their own business - as I have - knows. Even now, as I have been promoted to a director position, there are just a lot of things you have to do to keep your business running. In the early scaling of a business, you end up doing everything, but you quickly have to decide what to focus on and what to delegate. And Piers discusses something that any business owner or student will know, that there are inflection points when you grow. It's a really good piece, and if you're considering starting your own media business, it's a good overview of the decisions that you'll face.

The Reynolds Institute talks about the issues that they had to navigate as they brought together five newsrooms - digital, print, radio and TV. CMSes, workflows and more.

PLUS: How small newsrooms can develop a data-driven culture. Patreon is building a video platform to allow creators to break their dependence on YouTube. Journalism.co.uk has a good podcast episode about planning your next career move. A new opportunity on mobile. Spotify continues to build out its audio empire with the purchase of an audiobook company.

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Takeaways from combining a radio, TV, newspaper and magazine staff into one space for collaboration It has been three months since the Missouri School of Journalism reconfigured the space for the One Newsroom, a converged hub for five newsrooms: the Columbia Missourian, a daily community newspaper; KOMU, an NBC affiliate TV newsroom; KBIA, an NPR … Continued

I wish I’d known what I know now when I started my first media business. I thought I knew how to run and grow a company, because I’d been MD of a £5m business. I thought I knew what would make it valuable. As any independent media business Founder will tell you: Nothing prepares you …

If you are a small newsroom, how do you start approaching AI technologies when resources are limited? In this article, AI strategist Mara Pometti responds to some of the questions raised by the participants of the AI Academy for Small Newsrooms.

CEO Jack Conte confirms to The Verge that Patreon is building a video product that’ll allow people to host their videos on the platform. He’s also launching a podcast called The Creator Economy.

The pandemic has made us think more closely about work-life balance and job satisfaction. How do you weigh up what is the next best move for you?

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In an effort to expand beyond music, Spotify has been investing hundreds of millions to build out its podcasts business. Now the company has set its sights on another form of audio, with today’s acquisition of digital audiobook distributor Findaway. Spotify declined to share the financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close […]