Q&A with Samir Husni: ‘News doesn’t belong on paper anymore’

“News doesn’t belong on paper anymore,” says Samir A. Husni, Professor and Hederman Lecturer, Magazine Innovation Center, The University of Mississippi, USA. “My daily newspaper must remain daily, but the content must become weekly on a daily basis. And that’s what we’re seeing with magazines; all the successful ones are becoming monthlies on a weekly basis.”

Q&A with Kerry Northrup: ‘News publishing is diverging along two very different tracks’

“News publishing is diverging along two very different tracks,” says Kerry J. Northrup, a career journalist and media executive who specialises in prototyping the future of journalism. They are “the editorial services industry and experiential news media. They have different business models, different content models, and two very different newsroom models. That’s the key difference to be looking at in newsrooms going forward.”

‘We are constantly seeking points where we can improve’: Q&A with Zero Hora’s Marta Gleich

“As is common for technology companies, the ‘beta’ concept has permeated our work initiatives,” says Marta Gleich, Executive Editor of Zero Hora and seven other RBS Group newspapers in southern Brazil.

Making the best use of data to build a successful digital strategy

Having a solid digital strategy that appropriately incorporates the vast amount of data at their disposal is essential for publishers, but it is also a complex undertaking. “The first step is understanding the critical strategic value of your behavioural data, and not outsourcing its capture, management, and processing to a third party,” says Annika Jimenez, Vice President, Pivotal Data Labs.

The big picture on big data

Since the financial crisis of 2008/2009, the publishing industry has seen a number of innovations that as of yet have failed to pay off in a big way. But unlike the iPad, paywalls or web-TV, the ongoing industry buzz around big data analytics may signal a true paradigm shift for publishers willing to invest, according to big data specialist Tor Bøe-Lillegraven.

Google’s Richard Gingras on journalism innovation, the value of trust, and the creativity renaissance

Google’s Senior Director of News and Social Products, Richard Gingras, is pitching for closer ties with legacy news organisations. Google has a complex relationship with publishers but proudly sends 10 billion visits to news websites each month.

Delivering a keynote address at the #MediasDemain conference in Paris last week, Gingras called for increased collaboration with publishers: “in sharing of ideas, in providing enabling platforms, in helping improve information architectures.” Here are the edited highlights of his speech.

New Study: Combating the rising threats to journalists’ digital safety

A new UNESCO study underlines the growing threats confronting online journalism, and provides a framework to help build digital safety for journalists. The study identifies 12 key challenges and it recommends that practitioners develop a “threat model” on which to build a personal security plan that covers both digital and physical threats. Julie Posetti reports.

For The Economist, programmatic is ‘simple’ – focus on premium

In mid-March, The Economist was among a group of five major global publishers that announced the launch of the Pangaea Alliance, which is described as “a new digital advertising proposition that will allow brands to collectively access a highly influential global audience via the latest programmatic technology.”

Let’s talk about User Generated Data

We have been all about User Generated Content (UGC), but now it’s time to truly connect journalism to devices and shift the discussion to User Generated Data, according to former AP UGC Editor Fergus Bell in this guest post.

Towards the media of tomorrow: notes from the #MediasDemain conference

Today’s #MediasDemain conference (Towards the media of tomorrow) in Paris, organised by Google-IPWA’s Fund for Digital Innovation of the Press (FINP) and WAN-IFRA, was a chance for news media to gather before a showcase of innovative projects driving change in the industry. Here are the highlights curated by Jake Evans and Julie Posetti.