How publishers wring new value from old content

Creating original editorial content is expensive. That’s why modern publishing is as much an exercise in dusting off and repurposing old articles as it is creating new ones. The approaches range from BuzzFeed applying the listicle format to new topics and repurposing video as text to The New York Times targeting old articles to new audiences on Facebook. "If we have good stories that become relevant again, we should use them again," Vox.com's Matthew Yglesias said. Publishers run into ethical issues when they try to pass off old articles as new, though. The post How publishers wring new value from old content appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'

[ Digiday | 2016-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]

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