@GIJN publishes business tools for small newsrooms guide h/t @journalismnews PLUS Is Apple losing the app developer edge

July 07, 2022

Ch-ch-changes, and I am not talking about British politics. Many of the stories today talk about changes in the industry. Street Fight Mag, which looks at local media through the lens of the business, asks whether Apple is losing its edge with apps developers by ignoring their needs. I will have to ask my colleagues on Team Pugpig.

ICYMI, Nieman Lab looked at the growing gulf between generations of news consumers. They were looking at the Reuters Institute’s most recent digital news report, which found that younger news consumers were getting even harder to reach. I remember when the report came out that there was some concern amongst media commentators that journalism was forever losing young audiences. The study found that young people were more casual news consumers, relied more on social media and less loyal to news brands. I wonder about their brand awareness at all when it comes to news. Good reading and lots to chew over.

Following on from yesterday’s look at changes in digital analytics, our friends at Piano follow up with a piece on how to quickly roll out a new analytics solution as Google prepares to sunset Universal Analytics.

Speaking of good tips and resources, the Global Investigative Journalism Network has an excellent guide of tools for small newsrooms, with a h/t to my friends at journalism.co.uk for highlighting this. This has everything including editorial tools, business management tools and encryption tools that will help investigation journalists communicate securely.

Plus:

  • Free or premium, a guide to help publishers decide.

  • Newsworks CEO on how publishers can claw back some of their audiences and revenue from the big digital platforms

  • Audio platform Deezer has gone public with a SPAC. Is this the last gasp for the investment vehicle?

  • How the US is becoming a nation of local news haves and have nots.

  • How an alt-weekly in Texas suspended their sponsored content programme after running an ad for Asian mail-order brides.

From data model to quality actionable reporting, here are four tips to get a new analytics solution up and running fast The analytics market is about to face a seismic shift. Google Universal Analytics (UA) which has been freely available to companies for over 15 years, is scheduled to end in 2023. This means that …

GIJN's new business tools guide offers tips from managing story flow and measuring analytics to tracking subscribers and protecting data.

Social natives ≠ digital natives.

Developers long favored iOS as it offered the best ability to monetize and the most valuable audiences. But are the scales now tipping in Google’s favor?

The process for choosing whether an article should be free or blocked by a paywall in a premium subscription strategy Should this article be free or reserved for subscribers? It’s a common question for publishers launching a freemium model, one of the most popular approaches for employing a subscription strategy where content is divided into free …

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Let’s chat through the results of the Deezer deal, how quickly the IPO market has changed more generally, and then drill into the European SPAC market in the wake of Deezer’s demonstrative debut.

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The Austin Chronicle, a Texas alternative newspaper, issued an apology and has put an indefinite moratorium on all sponsored content.