Press Publish is a weekly conversation with the people building the future of news: journalists, technologists, entrepreneurs, and more. Produced by the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard.

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An interview with Cory Haik, the executive director of emerging news products at The Washington Post. Cory has been the news-side lead for the Post’s Project Rainbow, its attempt to rethink its strategy for presenting news on mobile.

Episode 11: Cory Haik of The Washington Post | Nieman Lab

An interview with Jesse Holcomb, an associate director of research at the Pew Research Center. Jesse is one of Pew’s lead researchers on journalism, which means he’s been part of a lot of interesting projects — analyzing issues like how local news is surviving in the Internet age, digital security for investigative journalists, and how stories get consumed on social media.

Episode 12: Jesse Holcomb of the Pew Research Center | Nieman Lab

A conversation with Adam Ragusea, the host of The Pub, a podcast about the state of public media — mostly public radio. By hosting The Pub — which is based out of Current, the website covering public media — he’s established himself as one of the more interesting and ornery thinkers about the field’s future.

Episode 13: Adam Ragusea of The Pub | Nieman Lab

A conversation with Jenna Weiss-Berman, the director of audio at BuzzFeed. Jenna was hired last fall to figure out the site’s podcasting strategy, and thus far she’s launched three shows, each targeting the sites’s young diverse audience.

Episode 14: Jenna Weiss-Berman of BuzzFeed Audio | Nieman Lab

A conversation with Matt Thompson. Since earlier this year, Matt has been deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com, But you might know him from some of his previous career stops. He spent a few years at NPR, heading up some of its most interesting digital initiatives, like Project Argo. Maybe you know him from Snarkmarket, the influential group blog he led with fellow smart guys Robin Sloan and Tim Carmody. Or you may just know him as a provocative thinker on the shape of modern media.

Episode 15: Matt Thompson of The Atlantic | Nieman Lab

A conversation with Jason Kint, CEO of Digital Content Next (previously the Online Publishers Association). It’s the trade organization representing most of the country’s largest online publishers.

Episode 16: Jason Kint of Digital Content Next | Nieman Lab

In the first episode of our new weekly Nieman Lab podcast, we look at how they built a central gathering point for news devs and how they're trying to pull coders into journalism.

Episode 01: Dan Sinker and Erin Kissane of Source | Nieman Lab

The content strategist and UX designer says that mobile will be the fulcrum to push smart publishers to restructure their content for a multi-platform future.

Episode 02: Karen McGrane on building a strategy for mobile | Nieman Lab

The NYU professor and scholar talks about his intellectual influences, how he thinks the press did in 2012, and how much of an audience there’ll be for civic-minded journalism.

Episode 03: Jay Rosen: the public, how the press thinks, and the production of innocence| Nieman Lab

Vox’s VP for product and technology talks about the importance of community, the value of long features, and the role of sponsored content as he builds a web-native media company with editorial ambition.

Episode 04: Trei Brundrett of Vox Media | Nieman Lab

The author of “Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age” talks about what he saw in Philadelphia as the business came tumbling down.

Episode 05: C.W. Anderson on metro newspapers’ decline | Nieman Lab

The newspaper business analyst talks about what revenue strategies are showing signs of life and whether the paywall model works for everyone.

Episode 06: Rick Edmonds of Poynter | Nieman Lab

The head of Knight’s journalism initiatives talks about who it funds and how it tries to give its projects life beyond a grant’s expiration date.

Episode 07: Michael Maness on Knight Foundation’s priorities and how to ensure impact | Nieman Lab

Does Clay Christensen really need an introduction at this point? Once you’ve been named the top management thinker in the world, I imagine not. Clay is the man behind disruptive innovation, the theory of how industries respond to technological changes that alter access to products or services. His book The Innovator’s Dilemma is one of the most influential business books of the past two decades, and his Newspaper Next project in 2006 provided an alternate vision of what a more agile U.S. newspaper business might have looked like.

David was a Nieman Fellow last year, and during that year he studied with Clay on the application of his theories to news. The result was “Breaking News,” a piece for the fall issue of our sister publication Nieman Reports that outlines the hurdles and the possibilities.

- See more at: http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/02/press-publish-8-clay-christensen-on-the-disruption-of-journalism/#sthash.mUUnJGbX.dpuf

Episode 08: Clay Christensen on the disruption of journalism | Nieman Lab

The guest this week is Amy Mitchell, acting director for the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

This morning, Pew came out with its latest edition of the State of the Media, its annual analysis of where the news business stands. It’s a must-read every year, and Amy and I were able to chat about a sneak peak at it late last week.

While it may be true that the state of the union is forever “strong,” it’s hard to argue the same about the news industry. Pew’s report goes into the continued financial decline of traditional news outlets (and the hopeful signs of new revenue streams); it examines how the new news ecosystem is changing audience habits; and it looks at the declining state of local television, still the No. 1 source of news for Americans.

Pew’s great at combining original survey research with a keen analytical eye, and their reports are some of the most valuable resources we have to move from ideas to real data. If you’re interested in stepping back a bit and understanding how 2013 is looking different from 2012 or 2011, give it a listen.

Episode 09: Amy Mitchell of the Project for Excellence in Journalism | Nieman Lab

The guest this week is Tiffany Shackelford, executive director of Association of Alternative Newsmedia, until recently known as the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. They’re the trade group for alt weeklies in the U.S. — your Village Voices, your Chicago Readers, your Seattle Weeklies — and until recently, the Boston Phoenix.

The legendary Boston alt weekly surprised the publishing world last month when it announced it was closing after 47 years. That led to a new round of concerns about the future of alt weeklies, which have seen a lot of the same revenue declines that dailies have over the past decade. And when daily newspapers were strong, it was easy to know who the alt weeklies were an alternative to; now there’s no shortage of alternatives to the alternative.

Tiffany believes that alts still have a solid future ahead of them, particularly in markets smaller than Boston. We talked about how their revenue mix is shifting, how some alts are changing their publication cycle and becoming more heavily digital, and who are the model players that other publishers should be watching. If you’re interested in the future of some of America’s most prominent newspaper brands, give our conversation a listen.

Episode 10: Tiffany Shackelford of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia | Nieman Lab

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