Tag The future of newspaper

The Wall Street Journal has (almost) never been free to read online. When the full website — then called the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition — officially debuted online 20 years ago today, it was free for a few months…. Continue Reading →

Vox Media, the ambitious online news start-up that runs Vox, a politics site; SB Nation, a network of sports sites; and The Verge, a site about technology, says its next new project will be reviving something old. Read more: http://nyti.ms/1XQFpuf

With Facebook Instant Articles now open to everyone, Google is ramping up its own initiative to speed up (and clean up) the mobile web, the open source Accelerated Mobile Pages project. Read more: http://bit.ly/1Qtt8WR

Sharing audio on social media is hard to do. Stan Alcorn documented many of the struggles two years ago in a widely cited Digg story — and not a whole lot has changed since then. The fundamental challenges remain: It’s… Continue Reading →

You may have heard there’s a tech funding crunch, especially for companies that have yet to generate significant revenue. Not for Medium: The publishing platform says it raised another $50 million — just a few months after it raised $57… Continue Reading →

As we work to improve News Feed, we make updates to help make sure you see the most relevant stories at the top. Read more: http://bit.ly/1WJ1zjM

Digital media companies are caught in the “crap trap,” mass-producing trashy clickbait so they can claim huge audiences and often higher valuations. Read more: http://bit.ly/244cBlP