I work on content and subscription strategy, newsroom transformation, newsroom tooling, data and insights in newsrooms and edition based publishing
Strategy
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
Leadership
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.
Product development
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
mentoring
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
Leadership
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.
Data in the newsroom
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
mentoring
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
Newsroom
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.
Newsroom
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.
Strategy
News media executives often comfort themselves that the digital world is moving so fast that “you can’t predict what’s going to happen next year, let alone in five years’ time”. We say that’s nonsense.
Strategy
This is where I think most people fall down. They can do a list of actions, but making them coherent seems to be really difficult because it means you have to start making choices. Real life trade-offs.
Newsroom
There is tremendous opportunity in choosing to be different, in ensuring your readers and their needs are at the heart of your decision making. It does mean you won't be for everyone, but it also means those readers that choose your product know for sure why they like it.
Newsroom
What is the value of speed then? I think for modern newsrooms trying to create the best possible product experiences what we are actually interested in is learning quickly and making better decisions.