Interview here:
Politico has bought Capital New York, and is getting into the New York market.
‘But, for speciality sites, it is all about the right readers. The advertisers we want are the knowing ones seeking to influence a very attractive and hard-to-reach set of readers. If we deliver those readers, the traffic numbers will mean little.’
Watch out NY Times. You may be competing daily for those same readers when it comes to politics. More from the Columbia Journalism Review:
‘This acquisition comes on the heels of more expansion for Politico; the publication has announced plans to create a magazine and launch three new verticals covering trade, agriculture and education’
Looks like Ross Douthat saw some of this coming:
‘In this landscape, The Wall Street Journal has a clear role as the paper of the American business class, with The Economist, The Financial Times and the Bloomberg empire as its supplements and competitors. The New York Times fills a similar role for the intelligentsia and the liberal professional classes. The Huffington Post is basically the nation’s left-wing tabloid, and it has several right-wing rivals and imitators. ESPN.com serves as the nation’s sports page. And then various outlets, from BuzzFeed to The Atlantic, are competing to find or build a general-interest niche.
Since there aren’t that many major niches, most existing newspapers were always going to be losers from this shift’
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