Success in news publishing often boils down to scale and speed. Publishers need to push out large volumes of content and do it fast. However, they often find themselves hamstrung by the shortcomings of legacy content management systems that lack the specialized capabilities required by news publishers.  Then, there’s also the matter of cost. Legacy ..read more

News websites are different from other websites on the internet that either sell products or services, or provide informational or entertainment-based content. News is topical, has a short shelf-life, and needs to be updated very frequently. All news content also needs to be instantly pushed out on all social media channels with the same frequency ..read more

Jan Thoresen is a CEO of Labrador CMS – a cloud based Content Management System (CMS) for professional publishers and newsrooms that grow fast.  The landscape of Content Management Systems (CMS) in the realm of digital publishing and newsrooms is rapidly evolving.  The shift toward headless CMS solutions is gaining momentum among publishers seeking greater ..read more

The local news crisis has led to no end of policy proposals, funding initiatives and angry denunciations of the harm done to journalism by the likes of Craigslist, Google and Facebook. Ideas for responding to the crisis include paying recent journalism school graduates with state tax revenues to cover underserved communities, as in California; mandating that ..read more

Between information abundance and falling attention spans, how should publishers prepare to engage future audiences? This is a pressing question as technologically driven changes in media habits become increasingly apparent. Social media and mobile devices now deliver an endless buffet of bite-sized content, leading users to compulsively scroll through their feeds for hours. Many publishers ..read more

Manavdeep Singh founded PubLive to provide publishers with a modern CMS designed to help them overcome more of their daily challenges. Digital publishing is a complex endeavor characterized by diverse disciplines that players must master to taste success. Creating great content without a fully flexible and responsive search engine optimization (SEO) strategy isn’t good enough ..read more

Since writing about Google News Showcase early last year, I’ve been pondering the difficult position publishers find themselves in concerning Meta and Google. Publishers rely heavily on social media networks and search engines to help them reach new audiences. At the same time, the publishing industry has locked horns with Meta and Google, claiming they ..read more

Observers love to talk about change. It gives them the chance to flex their analytical muscles and present some “what if” scenarios with a certain degree of risk-free authority. Sure, it can go spectacularly wrong when making short-term predictions. Still, more forward-looking projections are generally treated with more forgiveness, perhaps because the sea of other ..read more

The digital publishing industry has grown in leaps and bounds since the first document was digitized slightly more than half a century ago. Since Project Gutenberg released a digital version of the US Declaration of Independence in 1971, the digital publishing market’s value grew to $186.8 billion in 2022 and is projected to climb to ..read more

Australian industry body the Digital Publishers Alliance (DPA) released its first-ever report last week, shedding some new light on the conversation around trust in the media. I’ve previously shared some thoughts about declining trust in the media, believing that more work must be done to engage audiences before trying to win their trust. The DPA’s ..read more