Derek Thompson notes that "in 2006, Google made $60 billion less than U.S. newspapers and magazines. Now it makes more ad money than all of U.S. print media combined": The scariest thing about the newspaper business is the idea that digital newspaper advertising is theoretically "alive" and "the future" even though it's growing at 1/50th the pace … Continue reading Will Readers Finally Pay For Content? Ctd
Below are the Dish’s posts following the shifting media landscape towards digital-only and/or tablets, as well as the continuing rise of paywalls and meters and whether readers will pay for content. Thu Oct 18, 2012 – 11.08pm: Out Of The Ashes Of Dead Trees The shift in my own mind has happened gradually. Even up … Continue reading Towards Tablets And Paying For Content
by Chas Danner I’m a reader. That’s how this ride started for me. Seven years ago there was, and still is, no better place on the Internet for keeping abreast of news, arguments, ideas, and the penetrating thoughts and experiences of complete strangers – the Dish’s readers. Finding the Dish was a revelation. I was … Continue reading Living The Dishhead Dream
A CBC camera crew led by the wonderful Michelle Gagnon visited the Dish “offices” recently: The CBC’s Neil Macdonald takes on native advertizing sponsored content branded content ads disguised as journalism. Money quote: Sullivan’s case against native advertisement is powerful and succinct. “It is advertising that is portraying itself as journalism, simple as that,” he told me recently. “It is … Continue reading The Fight For Independent Journalism
One of the minor reasons I decided to stop blogging is that, it seems to me, there is an arc to the story of the Dish and the world this past decade and a half; and there is something about this moment that seems as close to closure as history will ever get. I began … Continue reading The Arc Of The Dish 2000 – 2015
Ezra Klein acknowledges it: Blogging encourages interjections into conversations, and it thrives off of familiarity. Social media encourages content that can travel all on its own. … The incentives of the social web make it a threat to the conversational web. The need to create content that “travels” is at war with the fact that great work … Continue reading The Online Conversation That’s Dying Out
One of the things I’ve always tried to do at the Dish is to be up-front with readers. This sometimes means grotesque over-sharing; sometimes it means I write imprudent arguments I have to withdraw; sometimes it just means a monthly update on our revenues and subscriptions; and sometimes I stumble onto something actually interesting. But … Continue reading A Note To My Readers
by Chris Bodenner Looking back at 2014, Felix Salmon runs through all the high revenue and venture capital numbers of new media companies like Buzzfeed, Vice, and Vox: The small but self-sustaining bloggy site is a thing of the past: if you’re not getting 20-30 million unique visitors every month, and don’t aspire to such heights, then you’re … Continue reading Bigger, But Better?
BREAKING: Mass resignations just submitted at @TNR Full list… pic.twitter.com/SdM0VPQ8Et — Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) December 5, 2014 So for Chris Hughes, 100 years of The New Republic was apparently enough. — Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) December 4, 2014 Does Hughes know that everyone will now root for the new TNR to fail–and does he not care? … Continue reading TNR RIP
The enmeshment of the new media site with corporate interests – in which Vox writes ad-copy for big companies, while also claiming to cover them objectively – is not new to Ezra Klein: GE provided crucial support for media startup Vox.com, an explanatory-journalism site launched by former Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein, with whom it … Continue reading GE Brings Vox To Life
