This long read is an account of the creation, life and eventual end of The Wire, a tabloid daily newspaper published by TPC between 2001 and 2003. It may be the last newspaper to be created in Trinidad and Tobago in this century.
Facebook’s entire budget for its widely touted journalism funding project is roughly one per cent of one day’s profit for the company.
Bots are an integral part of the architecture of the internet, first created to assess the size and number of interconnected computers that comprised the earliest versions of the global network.
Time spent trying to tax tech giants is wasted time. Media managers need to learn the lessons that their business models offer and adjust strategy accordingly.
The only reliable way to do digital journalism is through immersion, not just reading, but experiencing technology’s aspects in everyday life.
Revenue online is gutted by a combination of competing Facebook ad placement efficiencies and reach and the nightmare of Google ads.
What the media has needed right from the start of widespread Internet consumption of journalism is a way for its audience to find relevant work in a frictionless environment.
The brutal truth is that surveys meant to inform advertiser support and rally reader interest in the product are a winner’s game
Since the MediaTrak surveys stopped in 2015, there has been no public unveiling of any metrics for the media industry and the advertising that supports it.
Delivering newspapers was a gateway drug into the business of journalism. Years after I began writing, my mother kept teasing me that newspaper ink had permanently tainted my blood.
The future of journalism doesn’t only belong to monolithic media houses, there is a role for journalists as trusted sources of information.
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