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Will Creator Burnout Lead to a Return to Media Companies?
When people ask me how I am able to handle a full-time job and writing my newsletter, I say two things. First,…
Publishers Recognizing the Need for Better Product and User Experience
Hey— The Slack community launches tomorrow, so if you’d like to be part of the community here at A Media Operator, upgrade…
Capture The First-Party Data That Will Actually Help
The media industry has been making a pivot to taking ownership over user information and striving to collect more first-party data. In…
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Lessons to Learn From WW84 Launch
Christmas in 2020 was different than other years. Whereas in the past, we’d travel from house to house, this year, we were…
The End of the Year Brings Multiple Deals
There’s always this inherent stress that comes from the end of the year. The goals we set in January suddenly come back…
Looking at the Axios Charlotte Acquisition
The New York Times reported on Thursday that Axios had agreed to acquire The Charlotte Agenda for “close to $5 million.” The…
Nick Friese on the 12 Years of Digiday Media
Nick Friese is the founder and CEO of Digiday Media, a company with three verticals: Digiday, ModernRetail and Glossy. Friese started the…
Why I Decided to Leave Substack
It was almost a year ago that I wrote a piece about me getting ready to leave Substack. I was spending the…
What I’ve Learned Launching and Failing at Job Boards
Ever since I interviewed Aging Media’s John Yedinak on the podcast, I’ve been thinking a lot about job boards. When I released…
Sherrell Dorsey on Building The Plug
Sherrell Dorsey is the founder and CEO of The Plug, a publication focused on the Black innovation economy. While it started as…
Welcome to the New A Media Operator
It’s Wednesday evening here in New York and the kind developer I’ve been working with on A Media Operator has finally finished…
Google Makes a Couple Moves That Affect Publishers
It’s been a longtime coming, but we’re finally starting to see examples of Google’s ad blocking in action. Back in May, Google announced that…
Community Doesn’t Work At Scale
For many subscription-first publications, the content is the primary means of getting a user to sign up and pay. That’s the expected…
Podcast: Mike Orren of The Dallas Morning News on The Pivotal Year for Local Media
We talked about why this is the pivotal year for local media, the perfect psychographic of a local subscriber and The Matchup.
A Tale of Two Papers
Sara Fischer at Axios had a good story on the subscription numbers at The New York Times and The Washington Post over…
Don’t Blame Media’s Business Model
Written in collaboration with Jarrod Dicker of The Washington Post. After the election, it’s common to see a post-mortem take place in…
Podcast: John Yedinak on Running a Network of Aging-Related Publications
We talked about how he and his brother started Aging Media, their editorial principles, the diverse revenue streams and where they are going from here.
When The New York Times Hoovers Up Your Talent — What Then?
At what point do we start to call something a trend? Is it when multiple brand name journalists leave their respective publications…