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I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about communities. I don’t mean where we live. I’m thinking about communities that form,…

I want to spend some time getting really tactical. I believe that will help grow audience and get your newest visitors really…

Happy New Year, operators! There is a real luxury in taking a couple weeks to recharge, refocus and prepare for a new…

I spend a lot of time thinking about newsletters. Whether it’s my day job where I think about how they can engage…

This topic is an important one for me because it’s something I am currently working on here at A Media Operator. I’ll…

Podcasts are so fetch. Although I believe our industry is smart enough not to do a huge “pivot to audio,” it seems…

Thank you everyone for your notes following my piece earlier this week about going deep in a topic and raising money in…

With media so beaten down, it appears that some investors are starting to look at it as a contrarian play. On Monday,…

The quest to get users to sign up for a subscription has pushed some publishers to start offering additional perks in addition…

There is no denying that advertising on the internet is a deeply flawed business. So many middlemen have popped up between the…

One of the earliest stories I remember about sales is from my Dad. He knew a sales rep who always hit his…

Axios published a story on Tuesday about how AARP is actually one of the largest media companies in the country. In the…

One of the downsides of talking about media is so many companies are private, so we have to speculate a lot on…

With every media company looking at reader revenue and trying to figure out how they can introduce a paywall, there’s never really…

Vanity Fair wrote a story on the launch of The Recount, the new video venture led by veteran journalists, John Heilemann and…

Many replied to last Friday’s email about media entitlement. The feedback was, overall, quite positive. Everyone who replied wants to see media…

Local media is struggling. It has been for a long time now. Once dependent on print, many local media companies never figured…

When Verizon announced the sale of Tumblr, it was pretty obvious that the conglomerate was rethinking its strategy around media. Hans Vestberg,…