Unbundling Digital, Jet’s Digital-Only Move, Drones’ Role in Journalism, Digital Strategy Case Studies, May’s Media Metrics Roundup, DPS Tip: Create a Multi-state Object, TFP’s Infographic Pick of the Week
Welcome to This Week in Publishing, TFP’s weekly roundup of news and tips for media industry pros! This week we’re sharing stories about digital revenue models, another print magazine going digital-only, media industry metrics, and more.
- Digiday’s Lucia Moses takes a look at the trend of publishers unbundling their digital content and providing “à la carte” offerings that let consumers select vertical news and information sources that cost less than broader subscription products.
- Jet is ending its print publication and shifting to a digital-only format next month. Its 700,000 subscribers can switch over to Ebony magazine or move to Jet‘s new weekly paid-app edition. The two magazines, both owned by Johnson Publishing, are also launching a co-branded online store.
- Sixteen media organizations filed a brief with the National Transportation Safety Board challenging the FAA’s ban on the commercial use of drones. They claimed that the FAA is violating their First Amendment rights by prohibiting the use of drones for news-gathering activities.
- As you craft your own digital strategy, you can learn from the experiences of others: Newspaper Verdens Gangs explains why it moved from native mobile app to a native/HTML5 hybrid model, and Shaw Media describes the pros and cons of its responsive design approach.
- Digital ads, newspaper circulation, iPad sales, social media, mobile trends, and more are among the topics covered in this month’s installment of TFP’s Media Metrics roundup.
- In this week’s DPS Tip, we explain how to create multi-state objects to display complex content or traditional slideshows with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite.
- Our Infographic Pick of the Week uses the premise of a “periodic table of the digital media elements” to examine the science of advertising and the growing importance of data and algorithms in increasing customer engagement.
This Week in Publishing appears every Friday on the TFP blog. Every week we compile interesting and noteworthy stories from the publishing world and put together a wrap-up to help our readers stay up-to-date. Think we missed something great? Leave a comment below and let us know!
Posted by: Gina Barrett