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It’s time to start focusing on our readers – Raju Narisetti

Whenever anyone asks if it is time to rethink their newsroom yet again, “the answer should always be ‘Yes,’ ” says Raju Narisetti, Senior Vice President and Deputy Head of Strategy for News Corp, USA.

‘People love their puzzles’ – the secret of Mail Plus

People will pay for luxury – a tablet product that improves on print. So Paul Field, Editor of Mail Plus, made puzzles and the TV guide his top priorities.

HOME BUSINESS DIGITAL MEDIA EDITORIAL INCUBATOR PRESS FREEDOM MEDIA POLICY From 0 to video in 30 seconds

John Paton, CEO of US-based Digital First Media, describes a video app that gets journalists out of the office. It does more than that, of course: it drives user engagement to previously unheard-of levels, for instance.

The future of news coverage – for every generation

Andy Kohut’s analysis on Poynter.org of recent Pew surveys presents a challenging outlook on the future of journalism. Figures show that those aged between 18 and 47 (spanning the two generational categories “Gen Xers” and “Millenials”) spend “less time than older people following the news at the outset of their adulthood,” and Kohut states that “younger generations just don’t enjoy following the news.”

La Presse + bucks paid-for trend with free tablet edition

This past spring, La Presse, Canada’s French-language news medium of record, launched a free daily iPad edition called La Presse+, which it had spent approximately four years and $40 million developing.

A few ‘pointers’ from Ken Doctor

Ken Doctor, author and media analyst, moderated the World Publishing Expo opening ceremony, posing numerous hot-button questions to Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner and Guardian CEO Andrew Miller. To set the stage for that session, he highlighted a number of “pointers” heading into 2014

Hack to the Future: Competition opens publishers’ eyes to rapid innovation

This week media professionals from all over the world gather in Berlin for the World Publishing Expo, looking for inspiration and insights into the future of the publishing business. But the future has already happened.

Live Guardian statistics demonstration

Andrew Miller, CEO of Guardian Media Group, takes a walk on a high wire without a net by giving a live demonstration of the company’s statistics engine.

Q&A with sisterMAG’s Antonia Neubauer

Antonia and Theresa Neubauer are the founders of Berlin’s Carry-On Publishing and sisterMAG, a bi-monthly, digital-only publication in German and English that covers fashion, technology, digital trends, food, DIY and other lifestyle issues, and is aimed at widely interested, well-educated, independent women.

Mobile technology influencing the way we read, write

As the face of media changes, journalists and the public are adapting, both consciously and unconsciously, to new mobile technologies and multimedia news platforms.