Regional business trends and forecasts for 2015: Australia

Interview with Mark Hollands, chief executive of The Newspaper Works, which advocates across a spectrum of commercial and editorial areas on behalf of the news publishing industry in Australia.

Review: The Newsroom – Off the Record

So this is off the record. Or to be precise, this is a review of The Newsroom – Off the Record. It’s not often we get a chance to conduct film reviews, but this documentary makes essential viewing for the news publishing industry, telling the story of Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet’s fight against dropping print circulation and their own local critics.

In California news is free; donations welcome!

“You can’t speak truth to power from behind a paywall” – Paul Carr, Pando Daily

After three intense days of our Study Tour to San Francisco, the west coast view of original news content seems brutally clear: news is a loss leader and real investigative journalism can only be funded by donations.

Case study on mobile paid content: Mobile is less of a challenge than the generation gap

PressReader is the oldest digital kiosk on the market. At the heart of its development strategy are mobile platforms. On mobile, “there’s a generation gap that calls for a differentiation in the service we offer,” says Chief Content Officer Nikolay Malyarov. “There is a split between generations still loyal to the digital replicas of a publication, and younger readers, who are open to aggregated contents personalised to their interests.”

How can we improve coverage of cases where killers of journalists get away with murder? Seven case studies and five tips curated by the World Editors Forum #EndImpunity

Today marks the first UN International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, and news media are being urged to report more on such cases. But what does good practice coverage of impunity cases look like? And how can it be achieved? Julie Posetti curates tips from the experts.

Journalists: Write not just stories but $oftware too

Journalism operations are unduly heavily focused on distributing and monetizing content. They thus are neglecting a potentially lucrative business opportunity: creating and selling software for gathering and analyzing information.

NY Times, Axel Springer invest 3 million euros in Blendle

Dutch start-up Blendle, which has lined up nearly all the country’s newspapers behind a single, flexible paywall, has attracted a 3-million-euro collective investment from the New York Times of the USA and Germany’s Axel Springer.

Five major lessons publishers can learn from Netflix

Guest post by Mirja Telzerow. (Editor’s note: the recent expansion in Europe of the hugely successful U.S.-based film service Netflix has triggered a debate as to whether the company’s business model carries lessons for the publishing industry. Telzerow argues that there are important lessons to be learned. An opposing view can be found here.)

Video: Interview with Mario García at #TAS14

At WAN-IFRA’s 7th Tablet & App Summit in Amsterdam, during World Publishing Expo 2014, designer Mario García picked up where he left off at last year’s event, with his focus on the two tempos in the newsroom: 24/7 and curated.

‘Would you let someone else run your 42 million euro printing plant?’

This was the question Armin Elm, Technical Director at the Mittelrhein Verlag in Koblenz, Germany posed to the audience during his presentation on the second day of WAN-IFRA’s World Printers Forum in Amsterdam.