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NEWS
“Coronavirus” on Keyword Block Lists
- Coronavirus Climbs Up Keyword Block Lists, Squeezing News Publishers’ Programmatic Revenues
- With Scrapped Events Mounting, Publishers Find a Key Revenue Diversification Avenue Blocked
- Meredith Continues to Invest in Print with Latest Food & Wine Upgrade
- Publishers Put Virtual Events to the Test as In-Person Gatherings Disappear
- Coronavirus Coverage is Driving Massive Traffic to Publishers, Vendors Say
- How A Blockbuster Washington Post Story Made ‘Social Distancing’ Easy to Understand
- Coronavirus Leads to Surge in Traffic: How Publishers are Building Reader Loyalty by Offering
- How Buyers and Advertisers are Planning for the End of the Third-Party Cookie
- ‘We Must Create New Proxies’: In the Absence of Cookies, Advertisers Focus on Attention-Based Metrics
- Playboy Shutters Print Magazine After 66-Year Run
- How to Rethink Print: Inspiring Stories from Three Publishers
- ‘There is No Solution’: Candid Thoughts on The Cookie Demise from European Publishers
- Simon & Schuster Is Up for Sale
- How Meredith is Investing in Tech to Connect Ads to Sales
- How Reader’s Digest Went from Life Support to Modern, Digital-First Multimedia Brand
- In A Year, Runner’s World Has Signed Up 18k To Its Digital Membership Program
- Building Loyalty with Free Content in the Age of Coronavirus
- Publishers Face Difficult Tradeoff in Making Coronavirus Coverage Free
- ‘It’s Been Emotionally Draining’: How Publishers are Adjusting on the Fly in a Time of Uncertainty
TRENDS
Forbes Success on LinkedIn
- LinkedIn Engagement Tactics from Forbes’s Social Media Director
- Why Brand Extensions are a Great Starting Point for Publishers Interested in Ecommerce
- Will ‘The Week Junior’ Get American Kids Reading?
- Podcast Publishers Eye International Markets for Growth
- Why Zero-Party Data is Publishers’ Secret Weapon in a Post-Cookie World
- Beyond News: New Opportunities for Publishers to Connect with Audiences
- The Loss of Tracking Cookies is Fueling the Importance of Email Newsletters
- How to Set Up Your Social Media Engagement Checklist
- How The Washington Post’s Homepage Redesign is Designed to Fight Subscriber Churn
- 6 Ways to Get More Out of Your Digital Marketing Budget
- From Bidets to Meat Thermometers, How Publishers’ Commerce Businesses Adapt
- ‘Thinkin’ Outside the Box: How Publishers are Using Member-Exclusive Conversations to Add Value and Originate Stories
- Six Ways Publishers Can Develop Successful Digital Products
METRICS
Who’s Working From Home?
- How Companies Can Set Employees Up for Success When Working from Home
- To Boost Subscribers and Ad Revenue, Publishers Should Grow Social Media Followers
- Programmatic Accounts For 85% of Us Digital Ad Spending: IAB
- Podcast Publishers Eye International Markets for Growth
- Publishers Prioritize Direct-Sold Ads Heading into the Second Quarter
- How COVID-19 is Testing Social Media’s Ability to Fight Misinformation
- How the Book Biz is Coping with the Coronavirus
PEOPLE
Relaunch of ThePioneerWoman.com
- Hearst Magazines, Ree Drummond to Relaunch ThePioneerWoman.com
- Time’s Keith Grossman On Building the Brand After ’10 Years of Neglect’
- Men’s Journal Lays Staffers Off as It Moves Edit Team to California
- Gannett Layoffs Underway at Combined New Company
- How to Rethink Print: Inspiring Stories from Three Publishers
- Lydia Polgreen Steps Down as Editor in Chief of HuffPost
- Top Editors Leave Huffpost And Buzzfeed News Amid Growing Doubts About the Future of Digital News
Read more about people in media in our separate article More Staff Changes at Meredith, Quartz, TIME, and more…
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Posted by: Monica Murphy
