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This new blended reality: Rafat Ali says companies that see data as content are the future of media Posted: 02 Dec 2013 07:32 PM PST Don’t miss this insightful post by Skift founder Rafat Ali just because it was published on LinkedIn (where Ali has over 13,000 followers). He highlights a group of companies that he thinks illustrate a new business model, one that turns data and data literacy into a revenue stream. Some examples of media entities already leading in this area, according to Ali, include Bloomberg and FiveThirtyEight.
We talked with Ali back in May about how Skift fits into this data-journalism-hybrid model. |
A crowdfunded Dutch site goes from concept to reality Posted: 02 Dec 2013 08:17 AM PST Back in April, we told you about De Correspondent, a new Dutch news site backed by a remarkable $1.3 million in crowdfunding. Jay Rosen declared it the most interesting startup he’d read about this year: With the benefit of a few more months’ experience, De Correspondent publisher Ernst-Jan Pfauth wrote up some of what they’ve learned so far. (The total raised eventually reached $1.7 million.)
Also, this is interesting from a how-to-push-sharing-on-a-paywalled-site perspective:
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