Dec 12 Why Product Manager is the New Pivotal Role at Publishers

Product managers have become the must-have new hire for publishers.

Nearly a year into its first chief product officer Julia Beizer’s reign, Bloomberg Media has grown its number of product managers from 10 to 14; Vox Media now employs 10 product managers, up from seven last year; and over the past two years, the Washington Post has tripled the number of product managers it employs, attaching one to every single internal and external project it operates.

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Dec 10 What Does Membership Mean for BuzzFeed News — at a Company That’s Already Raised Nearly $500 Million in Venture Capital?

Damien Willis

On The Media

It was a year ago that Jonah Peretti re-gridded BuzzFeed’s strategy, with BuzzFeed News set aside in its own column that would later become its own distinct website.

It would never go behind a paywall, unlike other news organizations “because your ability to access news is important every day”…

Based in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Damien Willis is a newspaper reporter and communications professional. He generally writes about the ways we pass our time in the 21st century.