Axel Springer has acquired 88 percent of Business Insider at a cost of $343 million. This means the German media conglomerate, which…
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Nick Denton unveils “the great unclenching” at Gawker Media
Gawker founder Nick Denton unveiled a management shakeup he referred to as "the great unclenching," in which he will share power over the blog network with a management committee of seven, a change he hopes will help Gawker compete with BuzzFeed and Vox…
Read MoreMarty Baron is partly right about the Washington Post and Ezra Klein — but mostly wrong
Washington Post editor-in-chief Marty Baron defended his decision not to finance Ezra Klein's vision for a news Wikipedia, saying it didn't make financial sense. He was probably right -- but the Post should have done it anyway…
Read MoreState of the media: Not out of the woods by any means, but some reasons for cautious optimism
In its annual survey of the state of the U.S. media industry, the Pew Center says that there are signs of growth and investment in new digital entities, but the bulk of the traditional industry remains weak and continues to shrink as it struggles to reinvent itself…
Read MoreBefore the “explanatory journalism” craze started to catch fire, there was Syria Deeply
Lara Setrakian, a former foreign correspondent for ABC News, started Syria Deeply because she believed that a news site focused on a specific topic would fill a need in the journalism marketplace -- and she is planning to expand that idea with other sites like Arctic Deeply…
Read MoreIf Ezra Klein’s Vox can be the Wirecutter of news, it’ll be a must-read for me
I am embarrassingly uninformed on certain current events. I'm hoping Vox can help fix that.…
Read MoreOn Ezra Klein and Project X: Sometimes it’s okay to not know exactly what you are doing
Vox Media and former Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein have come under fire for not being specific enough about what Project X is going to be -- but some of the best and most innovative things come from not really knowing. We could use more experimentation, not less…
Read MoreVox Media doesn’t just have to reinvent the news — it has to reinvent advertising too
Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff, who just hired former Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein and a team to reinvent online news with something called Project X, says the new venture will be funded primarily by advertising -- but is that going to be enough to pay the bills?…
Read MoreRebuilding mass media: Do we really want or need a digital version of the old Time Inc.?
Media companies seem to be focused on rebuilding the giants of yesteryear, like Time Inc. or Conde Nast, for an online world -- and the main reason is that the advertising-based business model for most is still stuck in the past…
Read MoreVox Media, parent company of The Verge and SB Nation, raises $34M
Vox Media, which owns tech site The Verge, sports community site SB Nation and gaming site Polygon, has raised another $34 million,…
Read MoreHow the public is reshaping media at Reddit, Vox and LinkedIn
The media elite increasingly belongs to digital only entities. Look under the hood of some of these new power brokers, and you'll see an unprecedented amount of ordinary people shaping the news.…
Read MoreAre comments a wretched hive of scum and villainy or an underused resource for publishers?
Although many traditional media outlets and journalists see reader comments as having little or no value, publishers like Gawker and The Verge see them as a potential source of revenue -- and even potential hires.…
Read MoreVox Media says the Verge is “very profitable” after one year
The Verge made a big splash in November 2011, when it arrived with a custom built publishing system and plans to take over tech reporting. One year later, it's making some real headway.…
Read MoreGame on! Vox launches long-awaited video game site, Polygon
Vox Media's long awaited video game site, Polygon, finally launched on Wednesday. Will the company's heavy investments in tech and staff pay off as well for gaming news as they did for sports and tech news?…
Read More5 key takeaways from paidContent 2012
It's all about the platform -- except when it isn't: Speakers at paidContent 2012 spoke about the opportunities, challenges and constraints of creating digital content.…
Read MoreDigital story-telling and the rise of the new publishers
In order to tell the story of Star Wars, George Lucas had to create a new technology company that was powerful enough to tell that story. The same thing has to happen in digital news publishing, industry experts discussed at paidContent 2012.…
Read MoreSBNation & YouTube team up for sports channel
SBNation, the sports blog network is teaming up with YouTube and launching a sports channel that will have everything from baseball to trash talk. And while it won't do much to ESPN viewership in the near term, it will surely put Yahoo Sports under pressure.…
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