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For Hearst’s Kate Lewis, data fuels strategy but the audience is in the driver’s seat
Kate Lewis, Chief Content Officer of Hearst Magazines, manages the company’s U.S. editors and digital directors and works with its international network to coordinate global content. Given her broad purview, Lewis has developed a core guiding philosophy—which allows her to maintain a consistent approach while also considering each publication’s unique audience.
Google data collection research
While the public has been focused on the ongoing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, Google has largely avoided public scrutiny about its data collection practices despite having the ability to collect far more personal data about consumers across a variety of touchpoints. In the new report “Google Data Collection,” Douglas C. Schmidt, Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, catalogs how much data Google is collecting about consumers across all of its products and how that data is being tied together.
DCN Comments on Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century
Before the Federal Trade Commission Washington, D.C. COMMENTS OF DIGITAL CONTENT NEXT I. Introduction Digital Content Next (DCN) appreciates the opportunity to submit comments in the above-captioned proceeding.[1] …
What happens when you take “publishing” out of the “publishing business”
Separating content creation from the business of publishing—HR, printing press, sales, and distribution—creates efficiencies that deliver what readers and content creators need: a sustainable business model that delivers amazing content.
Policing third-party code is essential to digital vendor risk management
Some of the biggest companies, including Saks Fifth Avenue, Best Buy, MyFitness Pal, and Applebees, have been the victims of breaches due to third party code. When third parties become part of a website’s support structure, they can increase risk because they lie outside of a formal IT organization’s control.
6 ways to increase the public’s trust in journalism
By now it has become common knowledge: Most Americans don’t trust the news media. It’s a sentiment that journalists have become all too familiar with over the past two years, as we strive to produce quality content in a climate in which we’re often branded as bad actors. But what if producing fair, accurate and relevant content isn’t enough?
Post-GDPR, are data clean rooms the answer to accessing walled gardens?
As of May 25, 2018, Google announced that DoubleClick users will be unable to rely on cookies or mobile device IDs to connect impressions, clicks and site activities from DoubleClick logs. Instead, they are limited to Google’s own Ads Data Hub for those metrics. Some remain satisfied with the Google stack. But not every brand’s solution will be, or should be, limited to Google.
DCN’s must reads: week of August 9, 2018
Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week: CNET | Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify ban Infowars, touching off censorship debate (3 min…
With a little help – and a little weirdness – readers understand why it’s important to help local startup newsrooms pay the bills
When we launched Denverite’s membership program, just weeks before our Spirited Media colleagues at The Incline and Billy Penn launched theirs, we had some guesses about what might cause people to donate. But would it be enough to get people to help us pay the bills?
News publishers should tell more stories
The story format is a dominant force in social media because it facilitates user interaction, which drives engagement. New INMA research finds that news organizations should use the stories format as an way to connect with a younger, mobile-centric audience.