by Dave Gehring | Mar 6, 2019
March 6, 2019 Local news publishers face a severe economic challenge. To compensate for declining revenue, they have turned to alternative revenue streams including content recommendation platforms. These platforms pay local news organizations to place low quality...
by Dave Gehring | Feb 17, 2019
For nearly twenty years, media companies have been attempting to apply a traditional media business model to the new medium of the open web. The traditional model depends on audience aggregation to grow revenue so the goal has been to get as many people as...
by Dave Gehring | Feb 14, 2019
Early Spring in 2010, a series of stories launched in the Los Angeles Times. Set in Bell California, a small corner of LA County, the Times began reporting a city hall corruption story and the scandal would ultimately send the City Administrator to prison for 12...
by Dave Gehring | Mar 17, 2018
Twenty nine years ago, Tim Berners-Lee started something new. He wanted to enable sharing documents between computers across the internet. Using HTTP and HTML, Berners-Lee laid the foundation for a revolution that would impact all industries, economies and...
