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dana lacey
@danalacey
biz, product and content stuff. former twitter blue, apple news, time inc. 2x startup survivor.
New York, NYdanalacey.comJoined February 2009
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dana lacey
@danalacey
I left twitter! I’m available for consulting gigs. Hire me to: -launch chaotic early stage products -develop content & revenue strategy -build partnerships that don’t screw anyone over (bullshit & risk analysis) -make biz ops less annoying -bring your weird ideas to life
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dana lacey
@danalacey
+1. Many people I’ve shared my salary with tell me they’ve never had a convo like that before. fwiw the only folk who have said no to me were wealthy and white
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Emma Carew Grovum
@emmacarew
Pay equity and pay transparency go hand in hand - but it’s often more nuanced than that. I wrote about many ways folks can participate in promoting fair compensation and pay equity here: source.opennews.org/articles/sloc-
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dana lacey
@danalacey
RIP to all the alt weeklies and that wacky little culture mag the Post used to publish
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sharine taylor
@shharine
There are little to no culture publications in Canada. It's my least favourite part about trying to write here. Unlike the US and the UK where culture sections and publications are integral parts of coverage and are diverse in their offerings, Canada has very limited options.
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dana lacey
@danalacey
romantic is not the word I’d use
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Michelle Manafy (she/her)
@michellemanafy
A(nother) new app bundling together curated stories from some of the world’s biggest publishers is targeting consumers who, its founders believe, would never pay for a single news subscription. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/dig
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dana lacey
@danalacey
love that you can buy nfts to unlock dirt’s new paywall
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Dirt
@dirtyverse
Welcome to the new Dirtyverse! Today we are debuting our publishing platform as well as paid subscriptions. 🧵
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Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈
@MIDImyers
this might be my favorite thing we've ever done. read this story to find out that a 16-year-old girl wrote multiple episodes of the Legend of Zelda cartoon based on her D&D games (among other absurd and fun facts)
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Polygon
@Polygon
“Excuuuuse me, Princess!”: An oral history of The Legend of Zelda cartoon polygon.com/zelda/23540526
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dana lacey
@danalacey
this whole list is great but i especially appreciate Anita’s take on building partnerships
Screenshot of lesson #4 from the article linked in the quoted tweet, about how good partnerships need consistency and transparency.
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Anita Li
@neeeda
The Other Wave: 13 more things I learned as a news entrepreneur theotherwave.substack.com/p/13-lessons-n
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dana lacey
@danalacey
yea you can’t expect a considerable product investment if your long-term plan is to break publisher economics
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Aram Zucker-Scharff | @Chronotope@indieweb.social
@Chronotope
I have zero inside knowledge about Scroll / Twitter Blue but I'd take a lesson in seeing how their general acceptance by publishers was accompanied by how they never launched an aggregator/reader platform and let pubs still do what they wanted with reg and paywalls.
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
@KeeangaYamahtta
For almost two years,
@JenParker393
& I have been talking abt how to create the magazine we want to read. Thru that process & in the collaboration w friends & comrades, we have created Hammer & Hope, a magazine of Black politics & culture. We hope you sign up & join us.
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Hammer & Hope
@HammerandHope
Hi everyone! We’re excited to introduce Hammer & Hope, a magazine of Black politics & culture, co-created by @KeeangaYamahtta & @JenParker393. For those who care about the Black freedom struggle – the sign up is liveeeee! Hammerandhope.org
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Lexi McMenamin (they/them)
@leximcmenamin
starting to feel like 2020 again with all these media layoffs. just this week: VICE Media (laid off several longtime staffers) Vox Media (owns Vox, NY Mag, Thrillist, more) Gannett (USA Today/ownership of several smaller outlets) + the shuttering of Protocol earlier this week
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Galen Bacharier
@galenbacharier
Gannett layoffs coming again Dec. 1-2. Comes a month after the company paused 401k match, froze hiring and required weeklong holiday furloughs for many of its newsrooms. Holidays right around the corner.
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dana lacey
@danalacey
the thing i loved most about this partnership was how hard y'all pushed for us to make the JS as tiny as possible, which then helped hundreds of other sites
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Oskar
@austegard
I'd pay for @TwitterBlue if the original 1st party revenue mission of @tryscroll — replace ads for a fee — was kept and extended to additional partners and Twitter itself. I was a beta and paid user of Scroll, and helped implement it at USA Today. It worked.
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angel
@angelmendoza___
reupping this. i’ve gotten interest from 24 social media managers from 21 different news publishers who have operated reddit accounts or are just starting to build their strategy. join in! we can grow something great here.
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angel
@angelmendoza___
if you’re a SMM running an account for a news publisher on reddit, DM me — gonna start working on a thing
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@danalacey
“an ambitious but slapdash organization that preoccupied itself with dealmaking at the expense of the arduous realities of operating a media business”
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Steven Perlberg
@perlberg
After the surprise shutdown of MEL Magazine and a round of 52 layoffs, Recurrent Ventures is reeling and staff morale is low. As the private-equity backed media company acquired new publications at a fast clip, it was a “JENGA house,” a former exec said businessinsider.com/how-recurrent-
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Hanaa’ Tameez
@HanaaTameez
Come join
@NiemanLab
aka the best and funniest team in media reporting 😇 Union gig, $68-72k, a fun Slack, and overall great work environment. I feel so lucky to have been here for 3 years 🥳 DM me if you have questions!
niemanlab.org
Nieman Lab is hiring a staff writer
Hello, we're hiring a staff writer! Come work with Sarah Scire, Joshua Benton, Hanaa’ Tameez, and me. That listing right up there ^ is where to apply, but let me tell you a little more about the job....
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