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There are three guarantees in life: death, taxes, and SEOs trying to game Google. But when there are 5.6 billion searches per…

In a previous life, my dream was to be a microbiologist. I thought working in a lab would be so fascinating. However,…

Now that we are solidly in the third quarter, we are seeing results from public digital media companies. And I may be…

Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a lot of talk about the newsletter boom dying away. Things were rip-roaring…

Three years ago, I launched A Media Operator. For those that know the story, I just decided to write. From day one,…

When I was younger, I nearly took my career in a radically different that likely would have taken me out of media.…

People far smarter than I can debate the merits of whether two-quarters of economic contraction is equal to a recession or if…

If there’s one thing that you can always depend on when running a business, it’s a revenue source drying up. Even if…

There’s something to be said for putting your head down and just getting work done. You don’t act flashy, and you don’t…

Building a subscription business is not about throwing a paywall up in front of readers. The truth is, a paywall is just…

Whether the economy is in a bad place or not is irrelevant for some investors in the take-private market. Things are still…

There exists an inflection point at media companies—and honestly, all companies—when they start to think about things farther in advance. Gone are…

When we think of ways to monetize media assets, we tend to think of ads and subscriptions. But there are other ways…

Building a subscription business is often not an easy task. It’s not just throwing up a paywall and then sitting back to…

It has been a lot of fun for creators over the past couple of years. Whether it’s people like me who have…

We all know that the local media market continues to struggle, and there is a multitude of reasons why. But it’s interesting…

It’s time for an existential crisis newsletter. But stick with me because I think once we get past questioning the meaning of…

Every year, the Reuters Institute releases its Digital News Report, which is chock full of fascinating insights. This year is no different.…