Justin and Ben Smith 'Global Newsroom' has some scratching their heads and others spitting PLUS Five principles for product managers

I guess I wasn't the only one who was left a little unimpressed and feeling that there was a lack of information about Justin and Ben Smith's newly announced global newsroom start-up. Some of B. Smith's former staff at Buzzfeed are less than impressed about the announcement due to pivots and layoffs there. It's one to watch, but it's still too early to know if there is a market niche that they can exploit.

I love the piece about how The Local has used community to build a paying readership of 50,000. And I think that dovetails into an interesting piece about how Pocket might help publishers with engagement.

PLUS a really interesting podcast from Mind the Product interviewing Esha Shukla on 5 principles for every product manager.

And let's celebrate. This is my 100th newsletter here on Revue! Thanks for being part of this.

Figuring out what product principles work for you is so important in product management. That's something we discussed with Esha Shukla, Product Manager at WhatsApp, for this week's podcast

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