Business

A Product Management Rule of Thirds: The Hidden Cost of Decisions

There are three costs involved in identifying, approving, building and operating any new product or feature:

• Direct Cost — The expense of purchasing, licensing, developing, testing and…

Local ownership or local control

What is the fix for local journalism? Consider Conway’s Law.

In the future, newsrooms and journalists will…

Be more diverse and representative of our communities

Be more non-profit and/or diverse in how journalism is subsidized

The slow news movement

Newspaper website page performance is still poor, have we given up?

Journalism’s Dunbar number

Audience scales, community does not. Go small or go home.

Google has a local news problem

Page views are dollars and Google is robbing your local newspaper to pay a few big, national news…

No more room at the inn

A parable of digital journalism economics

Once upon a time, about twenty-five years ago, a local entrepreneur built a digital bed & breakfast on the Internet.