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L’Equipe reinvents itself in a bid to stay afloat

French sports daily L’Equipe has revamped its image in effort to “regain control of time and avoid falling victim to the temporality of the web,” says the newspaper’s editorial director, Fabrice Jouhaud. To combat declining kiosk sales and suffering advertising revenue, L’Equipe is repositioning itself within the news marketplace by rebuilding its editorial content.

Huffington Post expands into Africa with Al Huffington Post Maghreb

Only a month after its first foray into Asia with Huffington Post Japan, Arianna Huffington’s news site launched its first African edition on Tuesday – the French-language Al Huffington Post Maghreb.

New multilingual news organisation aims for global reach through Internet, apps

From 1 July, the Israel-based i24 news will attempt to take on the likes of Al Jazeera, the BBC and France 24 with a tri-lingual 24 hour television channel that will be accessible in its entirety on the web and through mobile apps.

Crowdfunding promising for mainstream media, too

A journalism industry counting pennies and cutting staff salivated at the idea of crowdfunding, which declared itself as a viable business model for journalism last year. But the strategy seemed out of reach for mainstream media organisations — until recently.

South Asian publishers address regional trends

WAN-IFRA India Expo 2013, the second-largest international exhibition in the world for trends and practices in the newspaper printing and publishing industry, will be held 11-13 September in Bangalore. Ahead of the event, WAN-IFRA interviewed a few leading South Asian publishing managers to find out what they see as the major current trends in the regional publishing industry.

Could Facebook’s mobile news service fill the gap left by Google Reader?

Having introduced Poke as a rival to Snapchat and Instagram’s new video service to take on Vine, as well as rolling out its own brand of Twitter-inspired hashtags, Facebook is reportedly now set to offer a challenge to Flipboard and Pulse with a news aggregation app for smartphones and tablets.

Zeitung Digital 2013 in pictures

Zeitung Digital 2013, a joint WAN-IFRA and BDZV conference, took place on 19 and 20 June in Frankfurt, Germany. Here are some impressions from the show floor.

2013 is ‘do or die’ for Patch

Halfway through Patch’s “do-or-die year,” AOL’s goals to break even appear a lofty fantasy. The hyperlocal news community must halve its expenses and double its revenues, suggesting that Patch may soon join many of its recently defunct peers.

Murdoch’s empire to split today

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation will be split in two today, Wednesday 19 June, in order to separate the company’s thriving entertainment assets and its less lucrative publishing assets into two distinct empires: 21st Century Fox and New News Corp respectively.

At Colombia’s El Tiempo, partnerships are the key

Jon Ruiz is CEO of Casa Editorial El Tiempo, publisher of Colombia’s leading national daily newspaper and numerous other publications. He joined the company in 2004 after five years with Unilever and 15 years with Philip Morris. On 30-31 October he will give a keynote speech at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Latinoamérica 2013 in Bogotá. We talked with him ahead of the conference, to get a picture of the challenges faced by a successful Latin American publisher in the age of the Internet.