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Fighting for journalism and profitable news media
FT chief praises Google for 'showing up' | Five US big city dailies proving news can pay
And new podcast features chief growth office of The Atlantic Megha Garibaldi on how to grow online subscriptions
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Good morning from the team at Press Gazette on Monday, 16 February.
Our new podcast is out and it is a must-listen for anyone involved in online reader revenue. The guests are Atlantic chief growth office Megha Garibaldi and head of media at Q5 Graham Page.
The AI-written summaries appearing at the top of Google search results are hated by publishers because they appear to make it intentionally hard for users to click through to sources and are often inaccurate.
Google head of European partnerships Sulina Connal spoke about this and other ways the tech giant is looking to help publishers at a recent FT Strategies conference. Google has also launched a “preferred sources” function in the UK and is giving greater support for news subscriptions on Gemini.
Financial Times managing director Jon Slade also spoke at the event and commended Google for “showing up to the debate and being prepared to listen and act” as he announced a cash-for-content licensing deal with the tech giant.
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📈 Last week Press Gazette looked at the US news giants thriving despite the recent economic woes at The Washington Post.
He writes: “Perhaps the most important difference between these papers and the Post – and the hundreds of other shrinking media outlets owned by corporate chains and hedge funds – is that they are rooted in the communities they cover. Whether owned by wealthy people or run by nonprofits, they place service to their city and region above extracting the last smidgen of revenue they can squeeze out.”
The growing local newsletter publisher has decided to put the cart before the horse on this one, promising to build it if the pledges of subscriptions come.
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🕵️♂️ And the row over PR black ops involving The Sunday Times is hotting up.
The paper has followed up on the Open Democracy story, revealing a dirty dossier created by PR firm APCO on Sunday Times journalist Gabriel Pogrund which was apparently used to fuel a whispering campaign against him.