Tracking consumers across platforms is key to mobile ad revenue

To grow their mobile business, publishers need beautiful apps and good data – but above all they need a reliable way to follow each user along his/her daily digital journey.

Information wars: how journalists navigated social media in the Israel-Palestine conflict

It’s not uncommon now to hear social media termed as the ‘new battleground’ when it comes to conflict coverage. Conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine are widely reported by both traditional and social media, as was the Israel-Palestine conflict. As the fighting now settles into an unsteady but hopeful ceasefire, Lucy Dean examines the use and abuse of social media in Gaza, and explores how journalists can navigate the terrain.

Chat apps: the future of news?

Heralded as the next generation of social media, chat apps BBM, Snapchat, WeChat and WhatsApp are the latest forms of social media to be utilised for content marketing by news agencies. Livi Wilkinson explores the BBC’s chat apps strategy.

Women’s work: recognising female achievement in the newsrooms of Africa

WAN-IFRA and the African Media Initiative have teamed up to create a new award to recognise women occupying senior positions in African newsrooms.

South African media expert derides potential SAPA take-over bids

“Sapa is little more than a shell”. Prominent South African journalism professor Anton Harber has issued a scathing critique about investment group Sekunjalo’s bid for ailing South African national news agency, Sapa.”It is hard to see how a national agency can be owned by one newspaper company, especially since Sekunjalo has shown little respect for editorial freedom or independence.” Harber told the World Editors Forum.

Trends in Newsrooms #10: The evolving editor – new age, new skills

“As an editor, journalism is only 20 percent of your job,” Jonathan Halls, adjunct professor at George Washington University, has said. So, what does it take to lead a newsroom today? In this tenth installment from our Trends in Newsrooms blog series, we look at how some top editors around the world leading their newsrooms through these challenging times.

Reporting Ebola: a story of divergent Western and African experiences

Harrowing stories of human suffering are coming out of West Africa as the Ebola crisis continues, but the outbreak is also revealing stark differences between the way Western correspondents and African journalists are able to protect their own health when covering it.

HOME BUSINESS DIGITAL MEDIA EDITORIAL INCUBATOR PRESS FREEDOM MEDIA POLICY “There’s quite a lot of fear in data”: the Financial Times’ Tom Betts on the need for trust, transparency and respect in the business of data analytics

“There’s quite a lot of fear in data. There’s fear from the newsrooms that it’s used as a management tool, and then there’s fear from customers about how their information’s being used,” observes Tom Betts, VP of Customer Analytics and Research, at Pearson Professional, which includes the Financial Times. Betts also says FT subscribers “…are pretty terrified of algorithms taking over, and dictating what they read.”

The Financial Times’ mobile-led weekend evolution

The Financial Times stands out as a global case study in changing news media consumption, as the UK market joins the US in crossing the mobile-desktop threshhold. Around sixty percent of the FT’s online subscriber readership now comes via a mobile device, and it is being driven by increases in digital consumption at weekends, and outside core working hours.

French case study in crowdfunding brings journalism closer to its audience

The journalists’ collective seeking to buy a group of French daily newspapers expects to reach its initial crowdfunding goal by the end of the week.

But one of the journalists behind the Nice Matin campaign has told the World Editors Forum that they will continue their fundraising efforts beyond that goal.