The Marcus Graham Project Is A Very Worthy Project

I’ll admit I hadn’t heard of The Marcus Graham Project until yesterday. As it turned out, they sponsor a weekly live podcast and yesterday, Luke Sullivan was the guest. To make a long story short, I was live-tweeting a little bit during Luke’s appearance while watching football, and he noticed it and name-checked me right… Continue reading The Marcus Graham Project Is A Very Worthy Project

Digital Is Great For Targeting A Niche, But That Niche Needs To Be Sufficiently Large And You Have To "Own It" To Make Money

Poynter Online is running an interesting interview with Rafat Ali, who built and eventually sold paidContent to Guardian Media Group in 2008. Ali says he’s bullish on the news business because of the obvious need for scale, and the fact that only a couple of star properties ever achieve the kind of scale necessary to… Continue reading Digital Is Great For Targeting A Niche, But That Niche Needs To Be Sufficiently Large And You Have To "Own It" To Make Money