Matthew Ingram

GigaOM had a neat little story in today’s Morning Links which merits some further attention. The story discusses why ‘Spotify or Netflix for print content is probably doomed’ and Matthew Ingram has his to say: “Another big flaw with the “Netflix for magazines” model is that it tends to see the magazine itself as the […]

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On GigaOm, Matthew Ingram expresses fascination with the way that the news media and social media have collided and blurred the lines between each other, in the context of the recent Uber scandal. We’re increasingly seeing major news stories break and grow in social and new media—Twitter, Facebook, blogs—with the traditional media being relatively slow […]

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Matthew Ingram has a great write-up on the question of paying for news. Will people do it? Do paywalls actually generate revenue for traditional newspapers? The sobering answer is, not really—unless you are the New York Times. From the article: “Take Gannett, for example. The newspaper chain is the largest newspaper publisher in the U.S. as measured [...]

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From Matthew Ingram comes this write-up about Reuters and their decision to shut down their ambitious ‘Reuters Next’ online service. As the article explains, the decision “stems from an ongoing conflict between the money-making subscription business and the money-losing consumer web operation.” In other words, Reuters makes its money not by a showrooom-esque web service [...]

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GigaOM’s Matthew Ingram has a thoughtful piece on the recent Apple decision, where he posits that publishers got themselves into their “versus Amazon” position not because of pricing, but because of their insistence on selling books with DRM. What’s the connection? Well, DRM is a lock; we all agree on that. And who has the [...]

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I read a great article today by Matthew Ingram where he explains the current difficulties facing the news media as a ‘barbell’ problem–entities on either side of the barbell are going to be just fine, he argues. It’s the people in the middle who are going to get squeezed! Ingram’s theory is this: If you are a [...]

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