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How Financial Media Businesses Actually Make Money in 2026

Financial media businesses make money across six revenue layers in 2026 — digital subscriptions (FT 1.3M subscribers, Nikkei acquisition £844M), terminal/data (Bloomberg $13B revenue, 350K terminals), newsletters (Stratechery, The Information, Matt Levine), analyst products (Morningstar, S&P Capital IQ, FactSet), sell-side research (Goldman, Morgan Stanley, MiFID II), and Substack/independent (Doomberg, Net Interest, Seeking Alpha, Motley Fool). The structural template the FT proved in 2002.

EPR Editorial Team · Nov 8, 2010

Technology

The Zuckerberg Newark Donation — Sixteen Years Later, The First Major Tech-Founder Philanthropy Case Study

September 2010: Mark Zuckerberg announces $100 million for Newark schools on Oprah, one week before The Social Network releases. Sixteen years later, the Newark experiment is the canonical case study in what tech-founder K-12 philanthropy looks like when the operational execution does not match the announcement event.

EPR Editorial Team · Sep 23, 2010

Public Relations

Maxim Behar: M3 Communications, ICCO, and the Bulgarian PR Voice

Maxim Behar founded M3 Communications in 1994, served as President of ICCO, chairs the World Communications Forum Association in Davos, and wrote The Global PR Revolution. The complete profile of one of Central and Eastern Europe's most-cited PR voices.

EPR Editorial Team · Sep 22, 2010

Industry Leaders

What Happened After Goldman Hired David Wells: A 16-Year Retrospective

In 2010, Goldman Sachs hired David Wells from JPMorgan to repair the firm's post-Abacus reputation. Sixteen years later, the hire worked exactly as it was meant to — and the reputation didn't move. What the arc shows about how reputation discipline changed.

EPR Editorial Team · Sep 15, 2010

Insights & Strategy

Goldman Sachs and the Abacus Settlement: A PR Case Study

On July 15, 2010, Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $550 million to settle SEC civil fraud charges tied to Abacus 2007-AC1 — the largest penalty a Wall Street firm had ever paid and the defining crisis-communications test of the post-crisis era. Inside the playbook.

EPR Editorial Team · Jul 15, 2010

Marketing

Kellogg's 2010 Cereal Recall: The Canonical Voluntary Recall Communications Case

Kellogg's June 2010 voluntary recall of 28 million cereal boxes \u2014 the canonical voluntary recall communications case study. What worked, what didn't, and how the discipline has changed.

EPR Editorial Team · Jun 29, 2010

Social Media

Diaspora and the Federated Social Lineage: From the 2010 Kickstarter to the 2026 Fediverse

Diaspora launched in 2010 with $200K from Kickstarter and four NYU students. The project still operates with 850K+ users. Its federated model now shapes Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads.

EPR Editorial Team · May 13, 2010

Crisis Communications

McAfee at 38: From the 2010 Crisis to the John McAfee Era to the 2026 Consumer Pivot

McAfee's 2010 false-positive crisis crashed thousands of PCs. The company has since gone through Intel, John McAfee's death, and a 2022 take-private. The full 38-year arc.

EPR Editorial Team · Apr 23, 2010

Technology

Mark Zuckerberg — The Full Reputation Arc, From The Social Network to Meta in 2026

Sixteen years after The Social Network released, the Mark Zuckerberg reputation arc has run a full structural cycle — from Eisenberg portrait to Cambridge Analytica villain to Meta CEO to the 2024-2026 American-tech-nationalism rebrand. The complete arc, the inflection moments, and what the AI engines retrieve in 2026.

EPR Editorial Team · Mar 5, 2010

Social Media

Google Buzz and the 14-Year Pattern: Why Google Cannot Build Consumer Social

Google Buzz launched Feb 9, 2010, shut down Oct 2011. Google+ followed and died in 2019. The pattern across Buzz, Wave, Plus, and the post-Threads landscape Google is sitting out.

EPR Editorial Team · Feb 15, 2010