The Business of Content

The needs of digital content businesses in late capitalism differ starkly from legacy publishing models. Explore how automation, ad-supported media, subscription culture and publishing culture are changing drastically in the 2020s.

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Baby's umpteenth tradeshow: How the news publishing industry is surfing the AI tide

Downtown Chicago, featuring the Chicago Tribune.

What I heard and did not hear at ONA

Making impressions a thing of the past: Grounding your content performance data in reality

Making impressions a thing of the past: Grounding your content performance data in reality

Everyone else's numbers are inflated, but your own data is your gold. Learn to trust your owned data and make decisions with verifiable performance metrics.

From engineered content to informed editorial: Blazing new trails in digital publishing

From engineered content to informed editorial: Blazing new trails in digital publishing

With data science and algorithms being panned into binary, good-versus-bad narratives, where can we find clarity and room to experiment?

Redefining content strategy: Matching business needs with audience behaviors

Redefining content strategy: Matching business needs with audience behaviors

How can we better elevate content strategy at the business level so that our roles, our passions, our work, and our brains are not considered replaceable?

When the discourse misses the point: Techno-optimists vs. legacy media

When the discourse misses the point: Techno-optimists vs. legacy media

There’s a lot of online chatter on the new platform-driven internet, the rise of AI, and what all that means for the future. With techno-optimists and legacy media failing to understand what’s actually going on, maybe it’s time to create the internet we really want.

Building systems for replicable project success

Paper with line graph drawn on it; x-axis is "sucking" to "not sucking," and y-axis is "the past" to "the future."

Freelancing gets a bad reputation because of its infamous feast-and-famine cycles that can make even the most resilient among us feel anxious. One way to not only survive, but thrive is to build repeatable, scalable systems that position you as the unequivocal expert in your field.

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