Joe Croney
RSS FeedCTO of Arc XP at The Washington Post. I write about media, technology, leadership, and lessons learned along the way.
Featured
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The Portal Closed Behind Them
7 min readMedia executives are optimizing homepages while their audiences live in feeds, chats, and AI interfaces. The divergence is complete—and irreversible.
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Audience 3.0: The Great Divergence
7 min readHow the relationship between publishers and their audiences is fundamentally transforming, and what it means for the future of media.
Recent Posts
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Why Media Companies Fail
3 min readThe seven self-inflicted wounds that explain why traditional media companies struggle with digital transformation.
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Media
3 min readMost media companies aren't failing because of external forces. They're accelerating their own demise through seven self-inflicted wounds.
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The Portal Problem
5 min readWhy media analytics show 30 seconds on homepages but three hours on TikTok—and what it means for the future of journalism.