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Rafat Ali on building a media company on top of public data
Ten years ago, Rafat Ali wanted to build a company that could chronicle the transformation of media and technology. Now he hopes to do it again, this time in the world of travel. His new project Skift...
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The newsonomics of Syndication 3.0, from NewsCred and NewsLook to Ok.com and...
Of the many failed digital news dreams, digital syndication is one of the greatest enigmas. We’ve seen companies like Contentville, Screaming Media, and iSyndicate (Syndication 1.0) followed by...
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The newsonomics of the Quartz business launch
Quartz — Atlantic Media’s business news startup, set to take flight later this month — may be bursting into the marketplace at a gem of a time. Tepid growth is taking hold in the U.S., with second...
View ArticleWhen travel bloggers get paid to travel
Skift notes a BBC program that looks at pay-for-play in the travel-blogging world. But Skift’s Jason Clampet is worried less by the journalism ethics issues than by the illusion of effectiveness: The...
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The newsonomics of recycling journalism
There’s an important number in his week’s first-of-its-kind Newspaper Association of America report — The American Newspaper Media Industry Revenue Profile 2012 — on the evolution of revenue sources....
View ArticleRafat Ali’s Skift plans expansion
Last year we wrote about the launch of Skift, the travel media start-up created by Rafat Ali, the founder of paidContent. Almost at the anniversary mark, Skift has received new funding, and Ali says...
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Tuesday Q&A: Rafat Ali on Skift, combining mobile and social, and becoming a...
The dream of travel — hopping on a plane to exotic or unknown destinations — is a dream of possibility. Rafat Ali sees that possibility through the lens of business. Skift, Ali’s travel news and...
View Article“The Art and Science of Hiring for Media Startups”
This is a few days old, but Rafat Ali (of paidContent and now Skift fame) has some good advice at Idea Lab on how to hire the right people for media startups. Some highlights: Product thinking:...
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ONA in the ATL: A few sessions to watch at the Online News Association’s...
We’re heading off later today to balmy (but wet — pack an umbrella!) Atlanta for the Online News Association’s annual conference. Come say hello if you see Josh, Justin, or me wandering the halls....
View ArticleThis new blended reality: Rafat Ali says companies that see data as content...
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...
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How research (and PowerPoints) became the backbone of National Journal’s...
In fall 2011, Atlantic Media chairman David Bradley wrote an memo about his career, leading right up to when he bought National Journal and The Atlantic Monthly. It was a roadmap wrapped around a...
View ArticleNewsonomics: When news companies are no longer built to last
I’ve gotten feedback about vulture capitalists, hatchet men, and chop shops, and of close-to-retirement publishers getting that unexpected knock on the door from visiting corporate vice presidents....
View Article“There’s an opportunity to go deep”: What’s next for Rafat Ali’s growing...
If you’ve spent even a little bit of time on Media Twitter, you’re probably familiar with Rafat Ali. Ali, the cofounder and CEO of the travel news site Skift, is a voracious advocate of focused,...
View ArticleWe know coronavirus has wrecked the events business for media in 2020. But...
Our friends at Digiday have redesigned (well, “refreshed”) their site today. The main difference you see on the homepage is much more prominence given to its paid membership offerings. The page’s top...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Tomorrow’s life-or-death decisions for newspapers are suddenly...
As local newspapers’ businesses hit the skids, they’re finding themselves careening right now into a future they’d thought was still several years away. “We are all going to jump ahead three years,”...
View ArticlePrioritizing subscribers, not fly-by readers, Skift is “debranding”
Nieman Lab is often pitched and rarely covers news site redesigns because these stories are almost always super boring for everyone except the company pitching them, but I’ll admit this tweet from...
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