FiscalNote Names Josh Resnik Chief Content Officer and SVP/Publisher

A recently completed local film festival has taken their most popular film and scheduled it again for June 12. "We're happy to announce our upcoming June Year-Round lineup featuring two Festival encores and a new selection," they write.

In news just yesterday, Bloomberg and Vanity Fair were both reported to be moving to paywalls. Vanity Fair will offer three free articles a month, then readers will be required to subscribe for $19.99 a year for either digital-only or print plus digital, Digiday reported. They'll add a searchable archive of its articles, a subscriber-only newsletter and possibly even access to its writers and editors—the latter being the trend of the year, it seems like. (Read my recent article on that.)

At the 2nd annual PubTech Connect conference in New York last week, Elisa Kreisinger, executive producer and podcast host of Refinery 29—a large digital publisher— told attendees that their 4-million-download, award-winning podcast concept originated as a video series.

Rob Ristagno, CEO, Sterling Woods Group, admits that he likes game shows. So during the session—Content Marketing for Content Businesses—that he conducted at BIMS in November, Ristagno posted 10 choices on the screen and asked his audience, "Which of the following are problems your content can solve?"

There's been an interesting discussion on the SIPA Forum this week—join here if you're not already on it—about how much content should be given away and what type of paywalls works best. Here are some interesting industry examples I found:

On Monday, the Christian Science Monitor launched Monitor Daily, a daily news digest of five pieces of content (stories, videos, graphics), plus one editorial and "one clearly labeled religious article offering spiritual insight often related to the news." It's emailed to subscribers each weekday at 6 p.m.