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MediaHackDays: The goal is radical innovation

In just a few weeks, some 80 to 100 developers and journalists from around the world are expected to arrive in Aarhus, Denmark, to take part in MediaHackDays, an event organised by Hacks/Hackers and supported by CCI Europe and WAN-IFRA with the Guardian of the U.K. and Knight-Mozilla’s OpenNews as partners.

Thousands in Moscow march against the Crimean media crisis towards a “Putin-free Russia”

Thousands of participants gathered in the centre of Moscow yesterday to take part in the “March of Truth”, dedicated to freedom of speech and journalistic independence. The official theme of the event was the defence of the integrity of mass-media.

Q&A with Ubilab’s Eduardo Campos Pellanda: We like problems

In the run up to the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum, we’ve been talking to some of the experts who will be speaking in Torino in June. Eduardo Campos Pellanda is Director of the Ubilab at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), and helping to carry out research on Google Glass with the MIT Mobile Experience Lab.

What we learned at the Digital Media Europe Conference #DME14

WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference, staged in London this week, focused attention on mobile, the role of video, social news and the vexed issue of paid content. Here is the World Editors Forum curation of the event highlights.

Impressions from DME14, Day 3

The final day of Digital Media Europe 2014 in pictures, including presentation highlights from Yahoo, LinkedIn, Le Monde: an insightful ending to a great conference.

DME14: Day 3 takeaways from Diego Carvajal

Moderator Diego Carvajal, Content Manager for Caracol TV / El Espectador Digital Media in Colombia, recaps his primary takeaways from the second day of Digital Media Europe 2014.

DME14: LinkedIn builds a news brand – and want news publishers to link in

“Whereas people spend time on other social networks, they invest time on LinkedIn, and for you as news publishers, working with LinkedIn means access to a more interested and engaged audience than you get through Facebook,” Isabelle Roughol, Editor at LinkedIn in France, told the Digital Media Europe audience in London.

Groundbreaking coverage of surveillance honoured at European Digital Media Awards

The European Digital Media Awards have honoured the continent’s most innovative digital news media, from best data visualisation to best reader engagement. This year, 107 entries were submitted from 21 countries.

DME14: Automated advertising lessons learned

In a dizzying panel discussion at the Digital Media Europe conference in London on the topic of automated advertising, a number of lessons learned and do’s and don’ts emerged

DME14: Yahoo: All banners on mobile to go by mid-year

The theme of native advertising at this year’s Digital Media Europe conference continued on Wednesday, as Regan Senkarik, Senior Director of Channel Sales, Yahoo! announced that the company is moving away completely from banners on mobile this summer.