The concept of the newspaper is changing drastically for the new Turkish generation born in the 90s. These “digital natives” have been born into a world of new technologies that are now standard for their generation. And compared with the demographics of many countries in the West, this generation represents a very large percentage of [...]

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Tags: internet, iPad, media, news, tablets, Turkey

Publishers have invested time and resources into creating beautiful, dynamic iPad apps–only to find that a chunk of their audience still discovers content through the iPad’s web browser. And when readers pull up a magazine’s website through the tablet browser, it can be a frustrating experience: constantly having to pinch and zoom, frequently clicking on [...]

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Tags: iPad, iPad ads, magazine, mobile advertising, mobile web, tablet

The launch of the Guardian‘s digital edition in Australia is a milestone in the development of our global ambitions. It also illustrates the opportunities and challenges facing a newspaper industry that is undergoing a period of dramatic upheaval, brought about by rapid technological change, exacerbated by the current difficult macro-economic environment. In the last ten [...]

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Tags: Australia, digital, news, newspaper, The Guardian

Following in the footsteps of Barack Obama and music sensation Psy, The Economist‘s digital editor Tom Standage participated in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” today. The questions posed by the Reddit community ranged from why The Economist has no bylines to what new technologies will soon take over the world. There were also a number [...]

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Tags: ama, digital publishing, iPad, reddit, tablet, tom standage

From long-forgotten stories to archival photos, newspapers and magazines are sitting on a treasure trove of old content. Sure, some of this content is outdated or inconsequential, but some is evergreen or intriguingly retro. Who wouldn’t want to see a 1955 New York Times photo of a Jetsons-esque robot or revisit a 2001 Economist article [...]

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Tags: byliner, national geographic, New York Times, new yorker, The Atlantic

Four days into 2013 and the publishing industry has already seen a blossoming of paid content models. First, Andrew Sullivan, the popular blogger who has most recently been affiliated with The Daily Beast, announced on Wednesday that he was amicably severing ties with his corporate parent and will be embarking on his own. This separation [...]

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Tags: advertising, andrew sullivan, blogs, nate silver, paid content, paywall, revenue