I work on content and subscription strategy, newsroom transformation, newsroom tooling, data and insights in newsrooms and edition based publishing
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.
Jobs
TL;DR I’m starting a newsletter focused on exploring all the new roles that have appeared in newsrooms as they evolved over the past decade or more. You can sign up here It’s been almost a decade since I graduated from university without knowing more about my career
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Data in the newsroom
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