Christiana Sciaudone

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Reporter at A Media Operator

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Articles

The FT Untangles Tension Between Editorial, Product Teams

4 days ago | amediaoperator.com | Christiana Sciaudone |Jacob Donnelly

Newsrooms tend to be isolated from the rest of media organizations. There’s a good reason for that: to keep the moneymaking away from influencing the coverage. But it also creates a blockade from understanding what your audience wants and then creating the products that will keep them coming back. To fix that, newsrooms are increasingly creating “bridge roles” that connect the editorial, commercial and product divisions.
B2B Publisher Bucks Trend, Goes B2C

6 days ago | amediaoperator.com | Christiana Sciaudone |Jacob Donnelly

MJH Life Sciences recently bought NewBeauty, an online and print publisher in the beauty industry, in its second major foray into consumer-facing media. Terms of the deal with Sandow Media weren’t disclosed. MJH Life Sciences, which bills itself as the largest privately held, independent and full-service medical media company in North America, is seeking to reach a new audience and the acquisition brings the potential to create a new platform in the aesthetics space.
Audience-First Since 1985: Schneps Media's Long-Time Strategy Brings Success

1 week ago | amediaoperator.com | Christiana Sciaudone |Jacob Donnelly

In 40 years, Schneps Media has launched and acquired some 70-plus magazines and newspapers, a thriving events business and, of course, an array of podcasts. Recently, it launched a new New York City print edition of its very popular Dan’s Papers—acquired in 2020—which covers and is distributed in the Hamptons. You read that right—a print edition.
Ask AMO: Are Readers Actually Using AI Chatbots?

1 week ago | amediaoperator.com | Christiana Sciaudone |Jacob Donnelly

Since the emergence of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022, a flurry of media publishers has gone on to launch their own AI chatbots and answer engines, but are readers actually using them? Well, sort of.
The New York Post’s Pivot Plans After 32% Traffic Drop

1 week ago | amediaoperator.com | Christiana Sciaudone |Jacob Donnelly

The New York Post reached 85 million unique users in March 2025. That sounds pretty good until you compare it to March 2024 (when arguably the news was less newsy) when it reached 125 million. Google’s search algorithm updates and artificial intelligence overviews are to blame for the precipitous drop, an issue many publishers have been struggling with. So what’s a News Corp property to do?
Trade Shows Now Feature DJs, Dancing and Confetti Cannons: Welcome to Festivalization

2 weeks ago | amediaoperator.com | Christiana Sciaudone |Jacob Donnelly

When the light starts to drop, the Night Show begins. Join us inside for live DJ’s, lots of dancing, and memories to last a lifetime. You might find the odd confetti cannon or two…You’d be forgiven for mistaking the above promotion for a hot new London club. In fact, it comes from the website of the Digital Accountancy Show, held in said city in April. And the accountants in attendance will be excited to learn that next year’s show is likely to be even livelier than this year’s.
Sexual Wellness Is Still Taboo; This Show Organizer's Fighting To Change That

2 weeks ago | amediaoperator.com | Christiana Sciaudone |Jacob Donnelly

Sex sells, or so goes the old advertising adage. But sex also carries a stigma, and is (somehow) still taboo in wide swaths of the public sphere. Nicole Leinbach Hoffman knows this contradiction all too well. The trade show entrepreneur is the driving force behind Stimulate, an event that covers the $115 billion sexual wellness industry in the U.S. that is about to hold its third gathering in Nashville in August.
What Media Operators Can Learn from Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty Newsletter

2 weeks ago | amediaoperator.com | Christiana Sciaudone |Jacob Donnelly

Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty cosmetics brand started a newsletter. It was originally planned out months in advance with a traditional editorial calendar. That was more or less tossed out the window as soon as it launched. MacKenzie Kassab, writer of Rare Beauty Secrets and director of creative strategy at the beauty company, expected to push out trend pieces, like multiple ways to apply blush.
Axel Springer's Got Bank: Now What?

3 weeks ago | amediaoperator.com | Christiana Sciaudone |Jacob Donnelly

Mathias Döpfner is now the CEO of a private, debt-free Axel Springer that has no outside investors other than Friede Springer, the widow of the company’s namesake, and said namesake’s grandson. I said it back in September, but this is an enviable position for Döpfner. Even better, it likely has a decent amount of cash on the balance sheet because of how the company was split.
In Events, Less Is More - A Media Operator

3 weeks ago | amediaoperator.com | Christiana Sciaudone |Jacob Donnelly

In events, less is more. At least for some organizers. Hyve, Jacobs Media and Questex are among those companies targeting such an approach and seeing better revenue and better margins as a result. The three companies spoke with AMO about going bigger, with at least one airing concerns that private equity and big strategic buyers are only focused on bigger is better, not leaving space for newcomers to keep the show industry thriving.