Newstex Blog

The SIIA Digital Content and Media Summit will be held on September 23-25, 2013 in London, and innovative companies in the information industry are invited to apply to present at SIIA Previews during the event.

As news organizations cut staff and more freelance reporters and writers are expected to foot the bill for their expenses, a new media model is developing.

Google is gearing up for the release of Penguin 2.0, which will put link analysis in the spotlight and revive the almighty Google PageRank.

This week, I Want Media hosted its annual Future of Media panel discussion at New York University, which was held in conjunction with Internet Week New York.

Newstex marketing consultant and publisher Susan Gunelius is the #1 women and leadership influencer online according to a ranking report by social media influence moderation company Traackr.

In recent years, journalism has been under attack as more media organizations abandon investigative journalism and reduce newsroom staffs to cut costs in an increasingly competitive environment.

Two out of three people used Facebook to read yesterday's news. That's just one of the statistics revealed in the "News Consumption in 2013" infographic shown below, which was released by Uberflip this week.

If BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins is correct, tablets will be obsolete in just five years. He made that bold statement at the Milken Institute Conference in Los Angeles yesterday, and as Bloomberg reports, he explained, “In five years, I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore.

In a new study released by CareerCast.com, 200 jobs were ranked to identify the best and worst jobs of 2013. If you're a newspaper reporter, you won't like the results.

For trade and academic publishers, online communities have moved beyond the experimentation phase and now play an important role in their integrated marketing plans.

Newstex has released a new free ebook, "The Publisher's Guide to Mobile and Tablet Development," which is available for download now.

Branded content, brand newsrooms, branded journalism, native advertising, brand publishing -- these are all terms that weren't part of common vernacular ten years ago, but with the growth of social media, the publishing industry has a new source of competition with very deep pockets -- brands.

