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Editorial dispatches from the desk of Verlag Moritz Schäfer.
The Last Editorial Editor
As publications cut editorial staff, the humans who decide what gets published are becoming an endangered species. What do we lose when the last editor leaves?
Read articleInside the Paywall: How Three Publications Made Subscription Revenue Work
After years of failed experiments, a handful of publishers have cracked the subscription code. We talked to the editors who made it happen.
Read →AI Wrote This Headline: On Algorithmic Editing and the Loss of Voice
As publications adopt AI editing tools, something subtle is changing — not just how content is produced, but how it sounds. And readers are noticing.
Read →Licensing Deals From the Inside: A Publisher's Playbook
Every publication that licenses its content to third parties makes the same five mistakes. Here is how to avoid them.
Read →The Newsletter Resurgence: Why Publishers Are Betting on Email Again
Social platforms keep changing the rules. Email doesn't. The publications building sustainable businesses around newsletters share one surprising trait.
Read →Building SiloOS: Why Editorial Infrastructure Needed a Rethink
Modern CMS platforms were built for marketing teams, not editorial organizations. Here is what we learned from building one for journalists.
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