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WSJ's Emma Tucker on boosting digital subs to 4.3m | Reddit extends Pro Tools to all publishers
16+ hour, 20+ min ago (615+ words) Good morning from the team at Press Gazette on Thursday, 2 April. We spoke to editor Emma Tucker about how she has shaken up the newsroom in that time and focused her team on the metrics that matter. At times the…...
Google removes Press Gazette parasite SEO firm exposé | Daily Star's success on MSN
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (593+ words) Good morning from the team at Press Gazette on Tuesday, 31 March. " Who knew that underhand SEO tactics could be used to silence reporting about underhand SEO tactics? Press Gazette's expos" of parasite SEO firm Clickout Media has been scrubbed from…...
Guardian’s first Substack experiment | Tindle sold to Iliffe
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (811+ words) Good morning from the team at Press Gazette on Monday, 30 March. " The Guardian is the latest major publisher to launch a newsletter on Substack. The brand's popular food email newsletter, Feast, will be published on Substack as well as its…...
£12m funding for local media | Publishers optimistic at New York conference
2+ week, 2+ day ago (771+ words) Good morning from the team at Press Gazette on Tuesday, 17 March. "Press Gazette gathered around 70 news media leaders in New York on Thursday for our first big conference of the year. Most of the discussions were held on a Chatham…...
Online subs booming for the 59 news titles with more than 100,000 paying online readers
3+ week, 16+ hour ago (639+ words) Good morning from the team at Press Gazette on Thursday, 12 March. Back then we counted 24 English-language news websites with more than 100,000 paying readers, adding up to 20 million readers in total. It's important to note that comparisons over time are tricky…...
Spectator's £1m subs investment | New AI licensing scheme to help smaller publishers
3+ week, 2+ day ago (570+ words) Good morning from the team at Press Gazette on Tuesday, 10 March. " Sadly the "build it and they will come" strategy doesn"t really work for subscription-funded news businesses. As well as great content, you need to master data, marketing, payments,…...
Why Axel Springer takeover of Telegraph is good news for UK media
3+ week, 3+ day ago (910+ words) Good morning from the team at Press Gazette on Monday, 9 March. Today's newsletter is brought to you in association with WordPress VIP. Here's how a UK publisher running multiple national titles created a shared content operation " and accelerated publishing while…...
'NATO for news' aims to control AI scraping | Liz Cookman: school dropout to war correspondent
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (793+ words) Good morning from the team at Press Gazette on Thursday, 26 February. " The "Nato for news" initiative suggested by Financial Times CEO Jon Slade to protect publishers from unwanted AI scraping has come to fruition. The FT, Guardian, Telegraph, BBC and…...
New podcast: Paywall tactics from The Atlantic
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (36+ words) New podcast: Paywall tactics from The Atlantic'Press Gazette | Substack "Building a news subscriptions business is hard. Growing that paying audience when you have already been at it for a long time can be even harder....
Faces of fakery: More fake and AI generated experts con their way into media
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (884+ words) Good morning from the team at Press Gazette on Tuesday, 10 February. " When stories published in popular UK journalism titles quote an "expert" there is a good chance that article is PR-created. And, according to Press Gazette analysis, there may be…...