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“It’s a format that rewards a bit of journalistic intuition, as it’s almost impossible to build podcasts to just fit searches and platform algorithms.”
Since 2015, a Post subscription for Prime members has cost $3.99 per month. Soon it will be $12 per month.
“Are we moving fast enough for the length of runway we have to lift off? Or do we need to, you know, keep paving and quickly build more runway? That’s the real question.”
In 2022, few pop-culture brands move the needle, so newspaper blue-bloods and recipe sites alike rally around Marvel Cinematic Universe content as their last stand.
“For me, fundamentally, the mistake was thinking that journalism was where Medium was going to shine.”
“Some subscribers would rather game than sift through the wreckage. Can you blame them?”
The potential here is for democratic governments to evolve their digital policy models based on each other’s experiences.
The same-day cancellation rate likely includes subscribers who only wanted access to one article, or who felt the full paid experience was lacking after a quick look around. New data suggests some just really hate the idea of auto-renewal.
For local newspapers, print circulation has collapsed for every audience except retirees. That’s why the daily paper in The Villages, Florida (metro population 129,752) prints as many copies as the one in Atlanta (metro population 6,930,423).
Staffers will take part in making collective decisions about the organization, from hiring and compensation to developing the budget, along with their journalistic work.