Mather Report w/ David Clinch

Happy Friday to all of you and welcome to our?weekly?review of important?#MediaRevenue?stories.

I see a lot of stories this week about how funders of journalism are thinking about creating better ways to provide scaled access to shared resources and technology that small news organizations need to thrive.

Both funders, and small news organizations, are interested in better ways to measure the full social and economic impact of local journalism.

If your news organization is planning your revenue strategy for 2023, our teams at Mather can help, so get in touch with?Peter Doucette?Liesbeth Nizet?and?Mather (Matt) Lindsay?to arrange a meeting to hear about our latest revenue products and click below to join us for our #MediaRevenue Symposium:

I look forward to helping cohorts of small news organizations implement some of these shared resources to add some rocket fuel to their revenue and growth strategies.

Here is this week's curated selection of?#MediaRevenue?news:

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Knight Media Forum

“Now is a time for us (funders) to do something transformational with our resources”

Legacy Media Needs to Be Transformed, Not Discarded

"Local news is a public service profession. We need both commercial and nonprofit outlets to fulfill that mission."

Gannett posts fourth-quarter profit after cost-cutting

"Gannett had 2.03 million digital-only paid subscriptions at the end of the quarter, up 24% year over year."

Axel Springer is going all in on America

"Springer already owns?Politico, an American website for political news junkies,?Insider, another news site, and?Morning Brew, which offers business news. It is all part of Mr D?pfner’s plan to return to Springer’s origins as a news publisher, except mostly American, not German—and all digital."

Former Buzzfeed and Mail executive Jon Steinberg named next Future CEO

"Future is one of a growing group of UK-based publishers chasing growth in the US, and is currently in the midst of a drive to reach one in every two Americans online each month."

How the New York Times is building a games platform around Wordle

"All told, the New York Times Games were played nearly four billion times in 2022 and it has tens of millions of players every day."

Launching "The Information Pro"

"the quality over quantity problem has spread into a new domain: data. Numerous services—often specialized by vertical—are charging astronomical fees for access to data that does little to help those customers stand apart. And often, the data isn’t accurate. The rush for volume leads to shortcuts and errors. Verification is in short supply."

ChatGPT Training: The List of News Orgs (and articles?)

"I received — in alphabetical order, no less — an itemized list of 37+ news sources claimed to train OpenAI’s language model as of the cutoff date of September 2021. I also received lists of articles used for the training, which contained the story title, date of publication, and url."

A Spot of Good Ad Tech News for Publishers

"A new report out in January gives us hope, however, that things may be looking up."

Nonprofit News Organization Signal Ohio Raises Over $5M to Launch Second Newsroom in Akron

"Signal Akron will be part of a statewide network of independent newsrooms across the state."