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Press Publish is a weekly conversation with the people building the future of news: journalists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and more. Produced by the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard.

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    • Sep 17, 2015 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 58m AVG DURATION
    • 16 EPISODES


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    Press Publish 16: Jason Kint on how worried publishers should be about the arrival of adblockers on mobile

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2015 40:16


    It’s Episode 16 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest today is Jason Kint. Jason is CEO of Digital Content Next, which I confess I liked better under its old name, the Online Publishers Association. It’s the trade organization representing most of the country’s largest online publishers. I wanted to talk to Jason...

    Press Publish 15: Matt Thompson on The Atlantic’s attempt to breathe some life into classic blogging

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2015 65:52


    It’s Episode 15 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest today is Matt Thompson. Since earlier this year, Matt has been deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com, But you might know him from some of his previous career stops. He spent a few years at NPR, heading up some of its most interesting digital initiatives,...

    Press Publish 14: Jenna Weiss-Berman on BuzzFeed’s podcast strategy and moves into audio news

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2015 52:03


    It’s Episode 14 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest today is Jenna Weiss-Berman, the director of audio at BuzzFeed. Jenna was hired last fall to figure out the site’s podcasting strategy, and thus far she’s launched three shows, each targeting the sites’s young diverse audience. Just about everything BuzzFeed does draws attention,...

    Press Publish 13: Adam Ragusea on podcasts and the pessimist’s case for public radio’s future

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2015 73:35


    It’s Episode 13 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest today is Adam Ragusea, the host of The Pub, a podcast about the state of public media — mostly public radio. I first heard Adam’s voice about 7 years ago, when he was a reporter for WBUR, the local NPR station here in...

    Press Publish 12: Jesse Holcomb of Pew Research on what they’re watching for in this election cycle

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2015 41:23


    It’s Episode 12 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest in today’s episode is Jesse Holcomb, an associate director of research at the Pew Research Center. Jesse is one of Pew’s lead researchers on journalism, which means he’s been part of a lot of interesting projects — analyzing issues like how local news...

    Press Publish 11: Cory Haik on how The Washington Post is rethinking its strategy for mobile

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2015 42:54


    It’s Episode 11 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! Hey, did you not know we have a podcast? That’s fair — Press Publish debuted back in January 2013 and, like many podcasts, it lost steam after a while. But we’re ready to jump back in! I hope you’ll join us as we interview some...

    Press Publish 10: Tiffany Shackelford on the future of alt weeklies after the Boston Phoenix

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2013 47:36


    They face many of the same financial challenges as their daily peers — how many alt weeklies can navigate a path to sustainability?

    Press Publish 9: Pew’s Amy Mitchell on the “challenged” state of the news media in 2013

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2013 50:03


    Sports, weather, and traffic now fill 40 percent of local television news — while crime, politics, and government coverage are all down.

    Press Publish 8: Clay Christensen on the disruption of journalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2013 89:38


    The Harvard Business School professor and David Skok discuss how news companies should respond to the Internet.

    Press Publish 7: Michael Maness on Knight Foundation’s priorities and how to ensure impact

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2013 60:59


    The head of Knight's journalism initiatives talks about who it funds and how it tries to give its projects life beyond a grant's expiration date.

    Press Publish 6: Rick Edmonds of Poynter on paywalls, print days, and the economics of newspapers

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2013 57:10


    The newspaper business analyst talks about what revenue strategies are showing signs of life and whether the paywall model works for everyone.

    Press Publish 5: C.W. Anderson on metro newspapers’ decline

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2013 70:00


    The author of "Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age" talks about what he saw in Philadelphia as the business came tumbling down.

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    Press Publish 4: Trei Brundrett on how Vox Media has built a web-native media company with editorial ambition

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2013 70:13


    Vox's VP for product and technology talks about the importance of community, the value of long features, and the role of sponsored content.

    Press Publish 3: Jay Rosen on the public, how the press thinks, and the production of innocence

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2013 67:31


    The NYU professor and scholar talks about his intellectual influences, how he thinks the press did in 2012, and how much of an audience there'll be for civic-minded journalism.

    Press Publish 2: Karen McGrane on building a strategy for mobile

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2013 52:34


    The content strategist and UX designer says that mobile will be the fulcrum to push smart publishers to restructure their content for a multi-platform future.

    Press Publish 1: Dan Sinker and Erin Kissane of Source on the community of news developers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2013 58:12


    In the first episode of our new weekly Nieman Lab podcast, we look at how they built a central gathering point for news devs and how they're trying to pull coders into journalism.

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