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Medium revamps design, upgrades ‘Beautiful Stories’

Medium, a blog publishing platform from the creators of Blogger and Twitter, has updated its design to focus more on visual elements in a post, and has also changed the way its collections work.

Quebecor, Canada’s largest publisher, cutting 200 jobs

Sun Media, a division of Quebecor Media Inc. and Canada’s largest newspaper publisher, announced 200 layoffs on Wednesday, with a quarter of them coming from the editorial department.

Conference looks at how journalists are dealing with change

“You have to try a lot harder if you’re a journalist… It’s no longer where you went to school or what degrees you have. It is your skill,” Mathew Ingram, a senior writer with Gigaom, told participants at the School of Journalism at Sciences-Po in Paris during its annual conference on new journalism practices earlier this week.

Newsweek plans to relaunch its print magazine in 2014

In a move that seems counter-intuitive to recent magazine trends, Newsweek will be relaunching its print edition beginning in early 2014.

Costa Rican wins Gabriel García Márquez Award for Excellence in Journalism

Giannina Segnini recently won this year’s Gabriel García Márquez Award for “Excellence in Journalism” after she used technological advancements to expose corruption in Costa Rica and beyond.

New York magazine to reduce frequency in print

Despite optimism surrounding US magazine advertising revenues, which increased 4 percent in the third quarter, another prominent American magazine has decided to decrease its number of print editions, due at least in part to its own revenue losses.

Start-ups find paywalls a barrier in building audience

Paywalls have the potential to bring in extra revenue for some media outlets – but they may prove to be damaging to new media start-ups as shown by Matter’s decision last week to forgo its paywalls in an effort to increase its readership.

Social media jobs to become obsolete within 10 years – report

Thanks to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and other networks, almost every major brand or corporation has a staff member or department dedicated to social media. The task for these employees is simple: to market the company’s message or products through social media channels and increase its influence on consumers.

Daily Mail to launch Australian site in 2014

The Daily Mail Group of the U.K. is partnering with Nine Entertainment subsidiary Mi9 to launch an Australian news and entertainment in early 2014.

Groupon re-invents itself as coupon marketplace

Groupon is re-inventing itself. The company became known for sending subscribers a daily e-mail, offering certain discounts and products every morning. Its new mandate is to remake itself as a digital coupon marketplace.