Xana O'Neill

News nerd, meme enthusiast and Co-Founder of Nillium. Former head of news at Snapchat, overseer of all things digital at ABC News.

Business Models for News

Hi, there! Welcome to Forth.

We’re a news platform with the look and feel of social media, the rigor of traditional newsrooms and a focus on local coverage. Today is our soft launch (!), and we’d like to invite you to sign up for our waitlist. What is Forth? We want to better inform

Journalism

It only took a siege at the US Capitol for social platforms to do the right thing

We, the people, deserve better.

Business Models for News

It’s time to remove news from Facebook and Google

That’s the approach the news industry should take when it comes to Google and Facebook: Pay for our journalism or we’re banning it from your platforms.