About Digital Publishing News
Digital Publishing News explains how digital publishers earn revenue, reach readers and keep their publications working.
Built around decisions publishers make
A higher advertising price can still produce less revenue. A newsletter referral can count as a subscriber without qualifying for payment. A paid membership can exist while an article’s access rules are wrong.
Those are the kinds of problems we cover. We explain the mechanism, show a worked example, and help readers decide what to inspect or change. Company announcements earn coverage when they help explain a publishing decision.
The publication covers advertising, search, AI search, newsletters, subscriptions, editorial operations and the business of publishing. Our dictionary explains unfamiliar terms; our calculators let readers work through their own numbers.
Shaun Connell, Managing Editor
Shaun Connell builds and runs businesses in Texas. He founded American Digest Media, a network of news sites, and Connell Media, which publishes free web magazines and develops tools and calculators. He also runs Connell Family Office, an operations company and family office.
His role here is to set the publication’s direction and editorial standards. The intended readers include the people running and managing publishing businesses, along with people trying to understand those businesses.
Publishing experience and editorial review record · Shaun’s personal website
Who writes and reviews the articles
Staff Writers is our collective byline for articles researched, drafted and revised with AI. It does not describe a hidden team of individual human reporters. Shaun confirmed that he reviewed all 35 articles in edition 0.4.0. Later revisions retain a credit for that earlier version until he reviews the changed work.
Read how and why we use AI, including what it does, what the checks establish and what remains a human editorial decision.
What readers should expect
Editorial policy, disclosures and corrections
Articles link to their evidence, distinguish reported results from invented examples, and explain the limits of a comparison. We do not present a vendor’s product description as our own test. A calculation built from hypothetical inputs is labeled as an example.
Coverage of a company is not a product endorsement. If coverage involves a commercial relationship, the relationship belongs on that article, where readers can see it before relying on the recommendation.
Corrections and feedback
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