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Product Friday: Developing a product sense and getting the team structure right

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Kevin Anderson
May 19, 2023

I highlighted this great presentation to WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference in the the weekly Media Bulletin that I write with my Consulting team at Pugpig because I think it’s such a great product development story.

How Amedia fine-tuned a bundled subscription product to meet reader needs - WAN-IFRA

2023-05-05. Amedia in Norway has been a beacon of inspiration in the industry for digital subscription and data strategies since it burst onto the global scene at WAN-IFRA's annual Digital Media Europe conference in 2017. Six years later at our most recent DME, the local publisher openly shared how its bundled subs product +Alt stumbled before finding its feet.

wan-ifra.org/2023/05/how-amedia-fine-tuned-a-bundled-subscription-product-to-meet-reader-needs

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Lessons on building product sense, navigating AI, optimizing the first mile, and making it through the messy middle | Scott Belsky (Adobe, Behance)

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www.lennyspodcast.com/lessons-on-building-product-sense-navigating-ai-optimizing-the-first-mile-and-making-it-through-the-messy-middle-scott-belsky-adobe-behance/#transcript

What does a perfect product organisational structure look like?

There is a lot of talk in the news media industry about product org charts. Here are six realities that help form the best ones.

www.inma.org/blogs/product-initiative/post.cfm/what-does-a-perfect-product-organisational-structure-look-like

Vice is going bankrupt, BuzzFeed News is dead. What does it mean? | Margaret Sullivan

When it comes to news in the digital age, which journalism model will work?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/16/vice-bankruptcy-buzzfeed-news-dead-digital-age-revenue

Adapt or die: How Gazeta Wyborcza uses AI in the newsroom - The Fix

Interview with Bolesław Breczko and Aleksandra Sobczak about Gazeta Wyborcza AI tests and the technologies impact on the media industry

thefix.media/2023/5/18/how-gazeta-wyborcza-uses-ai-in-the-newsroom

Advice for public radio stations: why we can’t keep treating digital members like radio listeners

As linear radio audiences decline, there is urgency around finding members on digital platforms.

medium.com/engagement-at-laist/advice-for-public-radio-stations-why-we-cant-keep-treating-digital-members-like-radio-listeners-cab0fe8500af

The New York Times enters the podcast app business at a 'weird time' - Poynter

A new subscriber-only app curates all of the Times' audio journalism in one place. But who's it for?

www.poynter.org/commentary/2023/the-new-york-times-enters-the-podcast-app-business-at-a-weird-time

Meta warns Australia’s plan to limit targeted ads could push free platforms towards subscription fees

Letting Australians opt out of all targeted advertising under privacy reforms would go further than any other proposal globally, Facebook’s parent company says

www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/18/meta-warns-australia-platforms-facebook-instagram-harmed-by-limiting-targeted-ads

New Study Shows that 25% of Twitter Users Don’t Expect to Still be Using Twitter in 12 Months Time

The study also shows that many Black and female Twitter users have taken a break from the app.

www.socialmediatoday.com/news/new-study-shows-that-25-of-twitter/-users-dont-expect-to-still-be-using-tw/650587