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Instagram's public identity crisis is a real-time case study. Taylor Lorenz summed it all up for the Washington Post. Lorenz interviewed experts who analyzed the whole mess through more of a product lens, discussing audience trust, product iteration, and marketplace positioning.

Matthew Lynes, Media Innovation Analyst at digital publisher Twipe, shares findings from experiments with different triggers designed to keep audiences engaged. He shares that targeted push notifications can reduce cancellations, personalized article recommendations have higher click through rates, and that newsletter automation and personalization efforts can build reader habit.

Land of the Giants is a podcast from Recode, The Verge, and the Vox Media Podcast Network that looks at how tech titans like Amazon, Google, and Netflix became the behemoths they are today and how they've transformed our lives — for better or worse. The latest season is about Meta, and the episode "Facebook Gets a Facelift" in particular has a more product-y focus, being dedicated to implementation of Facebook's News Feed and the tension between business objectives and user preferences.

Not all digital news sites are created equal — and that can make it difficult for readers to navigate a complex web of designs that are, at best, confusing and, at worst, misleading. This guide is designed to help digital news designers and publishers design their online experience with readers' behavior and best practices top of mind.

We want users to build habits with our products — but what happens when that habit becomes an addiction? In this piece, the author makes the case for driving value, not just use, with product, and for creating healthier products for users along the way.

As more publishers become attuned to product thinking in newsrooms, many are struggling to identify how best to position their existing products and how to innovate and iterate. This guide for kicking off product innovation offers a simple step-by-step process for aligning your team on why and how to innovate to reach organizational goals.

This case study shows how Newsday came up with ideas on 'notifications in the future' to make their app interact more with their community by using product thinking methods.