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World Press Trends show: Print is not disposable

In his keynote speech at Printing Summit 2014, WAN-IFRA Deputy CEO Larry Kilman presents several highlights from World Press Trends, WAN-IFRA’s annual survey, which collects data from 70 countries and represents 90 percent of the world’s press landscape.

Data Journalism website FiveThirtyEight re-launch fails to impress critics

FiveThirtyEight, a data driven journalism project owned by ESPN, was relaunched this week after the American sports media giant took control of the blog in July, 2013.

Dow Jones launches ‘WSJ. Custom Studios’ division to help create native advertising

Last week, The Wall Street Journal announced the launch of a new content strategy division called WSJ. Custom Studios, which is part of the company’s advertising department and will work with brands to create native advertising.

“Tear down the walls” – Diego Carvajal brings brand focus to DME14

With a background that spans television, magazines, BBC Radio and quality newspapers, Diego Carvajal has been adapting to the multiple facets of the media evolution for a dozen years, but if you ask how he defines himself, he doesn’t hesitate for a nanosecond.

Blendle and the search for the iTunes of online media

A fresh Dutch start-up has managed to unite the Netherlands’ newspapers behind a single paywall, scheduled to launch in April. It hopes to become the iTunes of online media. But haven’t we been here before with Piano Media? We spoke to the co-founder Marten Blankesteijn to find out whether Blendle might be a model that could make an industry profitable again, and work internationally.

Peekster, the app that allows social sharing from print

New app Peekster could break the disconnect between social and print media that newspapers are hobbled by: “it will stop ‘splitting’ and start ‘joining,'” asserts co-founder of the company, Tine Hamler.

Oscar Pistorius trial on Twitter: A WAN-IFRA analysis

Live tweeting court cases is now the business of mainstream journalism in many countries. And the Oscar Pistorius trial in South Africa is no exception. But what can we learn about journalistic Twitter practice from analysing the feeds of reporters embedded in the Pretoria court room?

Guardian digital revenues rise as newspaper future ‘secured’

Digital revenues at The Guardian have risen from £55 million to £70 million.

Reporting Kiev: An interview with a leading Ukraine live streamer

The level and concentration of video live-streaming from Independence Square marked the trend out in Kiev and signalled a shift in the live-reporting of crises. But who are these live-streamers and how do they do their work?

Inside Russmedia’s dual strategy for regional and global growth

In the January 2014 issue of World News Publishing Focus, we interviewed Eugen Russ, managing director of Austria-based Russmedia, for our cover story. It is an interesting case of regional publisher’s strategy to create separate divisions focused on traditional business and purely digital.