MediaNama Redesign: Advanced Search, Issues, Companies, Regulators

A new look MediaNama went live last Friday evening, featuring updates that hopefully make usage more useful for you. If there are feature that you’d like, every page now comes with a Respond to this button that allows you to email me. Let me know how we can be more useful.

The design is a bit old-school, but you’ll find some nifty new features:

1. Advanced search: I know Google search isn’t that great anymore, and everyone tries to game it, but our internal search has been quite rudimentary. We hope this gets addressed, since you’re now able to search: by date, author, within tags, exclude certain phrases, and search for exact phrases. For those steeped in tech and policy, I believe this will be a very useful feature.

2. MediaNama World: You’ll notice that there’s a MediaNama World tab on the right now: that’s http://world.medianama.com which is our new publication focused on South East Asia, with an ambition to cover tech regulation globally. Unlike MediaNama, where agents aid our journalists and editors by helping with questions, drafting RTI’s and other inputs, and retagging our posts to aid discovery. MediaNama World inverts this and allows agents to draft, leaving humans to check, edit and rewrite. At present a substantial part of the work is rewritten, and we’re tracking how human intervention reduces over time, even though it will never publish with zero human oversight. If you’re an org in South East Asia, we’d love to talk to you about working with us: I’m in Singapore for the Singapore Fintech Festival next week, and we’ll be covering developments on MediaNama World.

3. Pages for companies, regulators, sectors and issues: we’ve tried to improve our tagging, to allow you to search better and find things. Issues are about the tech policy issues we cover, there’s a list of companies and their coverage, and the various tech sectors MediaNama focuses on. Fun fact: in our company page, most names start with T, then S. The least: Q for Quickr, which we haven’t covered in a while.

4. Separate pages for our Courts and Parliament coverage: We do cover Courts and Parliament extensively, but that often gets lost in the deluge of news. The two tabs on top focus that.

5. Business opportunities: still a work in progress, but we’re enabling buying of advertising directly on MediaNama via http://biz.medianama.com . This allows customers to buy:

• Banner ads
• Newsletter ads
• Events: Contact us for supporting/sponsoring a discussion

6. Roadmap: These are things in the works, but you’ll see this roll out gradually before the end of the year

• Commission research or an Executive Briefing via http://insights.medianama.com . Insights will also lists all our past reports
• Sponsored posts / Native ads: allowing advertisers to share their message (with disclosures). They’re available for purchase, but an integration remains.
• Advertising in Reasoned posts and newsletter
• Job board: Relaunch and integration of MediaNama’s job board
• Sector/Issue sponsorship: sponsor a beat like Data Protection, or financial results coverage.
• Footer ads: for remnant inventory
• API access to MediaNama for your AI agents: charged on the basis of token usage, available both on the basis of pay-per-use tokens and subscription plan. I strongly believe that this is the reader-pay model of the future, especially for those using AI for work.

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