Mediagazer: How HBR Has Turned Its Old Content Into New Revenue (Folio)

10:20 AM ET, September 22, 2014

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Iran's Jila Baniyaghoob on journalism, prison and Rouhani — Iranian journalist and activist says freedom of speech and the press have not improved one iota under the new administration — Jila Baniyaghoob interviewing Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf in Kabul in 2003. Photograph: Courtesy of Jila Baniyaghoob

Elahe Izadi / Washington Post: Iranian president offers no new details on detained Washington Post reporter

Miriam Berger / BuzzFeed:
Brother Of Jailed Washington Post Journalist Calls For His Release As Iranian Leadership Heads To New York

Discussion: @modavari

Adam Hochberg / Poynter:

New project from Gannett uses Oculus Rift to deliver news via virtual reality — News for the Minecraft generation: Gannett experiments with virtual reality — One of America's largest media companies is hoping that young readers want to get their news the same way that video gamers play World of Warcraft and Doom.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Guardian, Businessweek and Pocket-lint

Folio:

How HBR Has Turned Its Old Content Into New Revenue — A Q&A With Sarah McConville, Harvard Business Review's VP of Marketing. — Smart media companies have figured out how to continuously pull in revenue from some of their oldest content—sometimes going back over a hundred years.

Discussion: @raju

Scott Stossel / Nieman Reports:

Atlantic editor Scott Stossel on keeping one of America's oldest print magazines relevant — Article by Scott Stossel @SStossel Tweet Share Email Like Comment Print Tagged with CityLab Digital Journalism Ideas Journalism Scott Stossel The Atlantic The Wire Web Strategy Scott Stossel, editor of The Atlantic, has reason to be nervous.

Discussion: bookforum.com

David Streitfeld / New York Times:

Amazon has held a secret retreat for authors called “Campfire” for four years, but this weekend some Hachette supporters weren't invited — A Writerly Chill at Bezos' Fire — When Jeff Bezos tells writers to keep quiet, they obey. — Every fall, Mr. Bezos, the founder of Amazon …

Discussion: @arablit, @jimaley, @neil_irwin, @petersterne, @ivanthek, @shelfawareness, @david_connell and The Verge

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

New York Times Launches ‘First Draft’ Politics Site And Newsletter — NEW YORK — Carl Hulse, a veteran of The New York Times for nearly three decades, considers there to be a hole in the paper's Washington report. — The Times, online and in print, covers the day's big news and often looks more broadly at the political landscape.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Capital New York, FishbowlNY, New York Times, Business Wire, @mlcalderone, @raju and @emilybell

Rui Kaneya / Columbia Journalism Review:

How comics journalism brings stories to life — Chicago's Illustrated Press is at the forefront of a burgeoning movement — CHICAGO, IL — For much of last year, Darryl Holliday worked the “crime and mayhem” beat at DNAinfo Chicago, documenting the consequences of violence on the city's South Side.

Donna M. Airoldi / Street Fight:

Report: Online and Digital Ads to Reach 25% of Local Media Revenues in 2015 — Total local media revenues are expected to reach $139.3 billion next year, up from $137 billion this year, for a 1.6% growth rate, with digital and online advertising surpassing the one-quarter mark for the first time …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Michael Wolff / Town & Country:

Forbes Media adapted to a digital business model, but the company and the family paid the price of a damaged brand — Empire Falls — There was a time when practically every rich man wanted to be Malcolm Forbes. For 20 years he was our most famous plutocrat, living lavishly off …

Discussion: @thestalwart and @qhardy

Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

iOS 8 notification center widgets could spur news orgs to invest in native apps again — Can iPhone widgets make news apps cool again? — The Financial Times notably embraces HTML5 web apps — and print! — over mobile apps. Quartz, perhaps the most widely praised new media site of the last year or so, is similarly app-less.

Timothy B. Lee / Vox:

How Betaworks revived Digg, growing it from 1.5M to 8M monthly visitors over the last two years — Inside the company that rebuilt Digg — Before there was Reddit, there was Digg. Digg used to be one of Silicon Valley's hottest startups. Founded in late 2004, it became a sensation …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and @niemanlab

Kristen Hare / Poynter:

Al Jazeera America journalist: Being in the military and being a journalist aren't that different — The life of a journalist covering conflict and that of someone in the military aren't that different, said Al Jazeera America's Josh Rushing in a phone interview.