At the start of March FT Strategies and Knight Lab released a new study called Next Gen News. It looks at the news needs and preferences of the next generation. It’s a thorough piece of research that speaks with young news consumers from America, India and Nigeria. If you
We created a product with an opinion. A point of view about how it should be used, that wasn’t just like every other news experience out there.
Are we entering a golden age of media and publishing, or the end of times? Who knows? What I know is that the 'news' feels exciting again.
News Product Management Certification — News Product AllianceOur exclusive program is designed specifically for news professionals to gain the product strategy, technical expertise, and change management skills necessary to lead news product development and innovation.News Product Alliance0 As I said on Twitter yesterday I am really proud to see the
In January I reflected on 18 months of mentoring, what I had learnt and observed from those sessions and now that I've passed the two year mark I wanted to do it again. * I've completed 65 sessions now, which is quite the increase from 37 in
I also loved how much Trei talked about the power of genuine collaboration - teams bringing expertise together to become more than the sum of their parts. Something that's really hard to do, but magic when it happens.
But what interests me is the stat. As someone who cares about how newsrooms use data to information decision making (both for our journalism and our product experience) there is crucial context missing.
Hopefully many of you have heard of the NPA by now and are members of the Slack community and are making use of the Product Kit, Mentoring Scheme and planning to attend the upcoming Summit at the end of April I'm incredibly pleased to say I'm
It's been 18 months since I started offering mentoring slots to anyone who felt I could help them. I wanted to publish a couple of observations and renew the call/option for people to book in for a session if they wanted.
The fab team at the News Product Alliance (NPA) has just published an additional set of 8 guides, taking their Product Kit to a total of 19 guides. In their own words Product Kit is a growing catalog of practical guides for product strategy, product research, and product development in
Why newsrooms need to stop transforming and start changing - The news industry has had the greatest gift of all when it comes to disruption: time. And it squandered it.
As I've been arguing for a while now, the most important thing to get right is structure - our internal structures should reflect our readers (customers) and not just be the 'traditional', siloed way.