Todd Vogt 2

When it comes to buying newspapers, Todd Vogt has doubled down on print media in San Francisco. As the co-owner, president, and publisher of the San Francisco Media Company, he’s responsible for three local newspapers: the daily San Francisco Examiner, and weeklies...

Todd Vogt 1

To all outward appearances, the fledgling San Francisco Newspaper Company is on a roll. After buying the San Francisco Examiner from Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz in 2011, it completed an unprecedented trifecta, scooping up the city’s two politically disparate...

Typographical past lives in today's media

Did you know a deadline was an actual line on a printing press and anything that was typeset after that line would be cut off? Or that a “slug” wasn’t just the name of a story? Turns out, much of our journalism vernacular comes from the printing presses of a bygone...

Anatomy of a robot journalist

Given that an entire afternoon was dedicated to a “Robot Journalism Bootcamp” at the Global Editors Network Summit this week, it’s probably safe to say that automated journalism has finally gone mainstream — hey it’s only taken close to 40 years since the first story...

Europe's papers struggle

Newspapers are in freefall. Print editions are being discontinued. Editors are being replaced with alarming regularity. Financial losses are mounting. Digital strategies are yet to bear fruit. New readerships are fickle, promiscuous and hard to impress. If...