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  • Shindig Events

    May 10, 2013

    Can a live video chat platform make money for publishers?

    by Tim Sohn

    Video seems to be the hot new thing in print publishing. Between the recent Newfronts, and efforts by the New York Times, which took down its video paywall, and the Huffington Post to get in on the ad dollar pie for…

  • Narratively

    May 06, 2013

    Narratively’s Noah Rosenberg on monetizing long-form journalism

    by Susan Johnston

    While many newspapers have cut back on long-form journalism due to shrinking page counts and budgets, stories running thousands of words are finding a home online thanks in part to platforms like Longreads and Narratively.
    Last summer, a group of…

  • News conference

    May 03, 2013

    Common sense ideas for making online video work (and pay)

    by Peter C. Beller

    The promise of running video on news sites has been just around the corner for about a decade now. With technology cheap, and bandwidth to spare, news organizations—and newspapers in particular—have reasonably assumed they could compete with broadcast and cable…

  • ala carte journalism

    Apr 15, 2013

    A la carte journalism: can CrowdNe.ws be the iTunes of articles?

    by Susan Johnston

    Newspaper paywalls have gotten a lot of attention recently, with The New York Times tweaking its paywall and others, including the Seattle Times and Washington Post, jumping on the bandwagon. But it’s not the only way that publications can charge…