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By Bihag Karnani As a senior product manager at Google, I oversee the development of Reader Revenue Manager – a digital subscription service designed specifically for media companies. On average, I meet with approximately 50 to 70 publishers throughout the course of a year. They come from a variety of backgrounds – local dailies, national…

Speaking at our ongoing Digital Media India conference in New Delhi, Kasbekar framed this as a deliberate departure from her years in broadcast.  She was candid that the strategy had not been met with confidence from outside the organisation. Brut was told, more than once, that betting entirely on social platforms, without owned infrastructure to…

“One of the scariest things that I saw was the massive gap between what leaders think we’re doing and how employees are receiving it,” Barrett said during the World News Media Congress in Marseille. Barrett, who has been leading AI transformation efforts at Reuters, was recently named Head of Product. She pointed to research from…

Speaking at our ongoing Digital Media India Conference in New Delhi, Sekhri drew on his 14 years running Newslaundry, which he co-founded in 2012. What works, he said, isn’t fixed – it shifts by market, and by moment. Purity of message, not mixed revenue Sekhri said the first lesson from his experience is that subscriptions…

In the last few years, there has been a notable shift in the state propaganda coming out of North Korea. A young girl — maybe 13 or so — has become a fixture at most major state events. Before an intercontinental ballistic missile launch, she can be seen side by side with her father, North…

The foundation of Substack in 2017 was “basically to make it simple for writers to start an email newsletter that makes money from subscriptions, from direct mailings,” Renée Kaplan, Head of Partnerships France at Substack, told participants at our World News Media Congress in Marseille. Today, nearly 10 years later, there are more than 5…

This was already going to be a week of reflection on the legacy of Brexit. The referendum in which British voters shocked the world by narrowly opting to leave the European Union took place 10 years ago this Tuesday. But it’s become more of a live issue with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s announcement that…

Since Donald Trump’s 2024 victory, the Democratic Party has been embroiled in a vicious internal conversation over “moderation.” One camp argues that the party has moved too far to the left on cultural issues, particularly immigration and trans rights, and that it needs to tack to the center in order to secure its long-term political…