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Interview: Why focusing on audiences helps newsroom transformation succeed

2024-02-15. Alexandra Borchardt and Lyndsey Jones, coaches in WAN-IFRA’s Table Stakes Europe programme, discuss how paying close attention to the needs and interests of specific audience groups can help ensure that transformation projects stay on track and on target.

Innovate Local: Reaching young readers – How Stavanger Aftenblad covers junior football like it’s the Champions League

2024-02-12. Elin Stueland, Project Lead AI at Schibsted’s Norwegian regional title Stavanger Aftenblad explains how the publisher is attracting young readers through their reader promise of covering local football like it’s the Champions League.

Data initiative helps Taiwan’s United Daily News Group boost engagement

2024-02-06. Taiwan’s United Daily News Group is using data to drive traffic and engagement with their readers by providing UDN’s journalists with the information they need to meet user expectations.

The role of tech in FUNKE Media Group’s ongoing transformation

2024-02-05. “Digitalisation is a technology-driven development. When technology is part of the problem/challenge, it can also be part of the solution. And that is, what we have been good at in the past and our mission is to be good at it in the future to adapt to “new” market mechanisms and technologies faster than others.” That is from Heimo Krum, head of transformation for FUNKE Technology in Germany. | Sponsored Content

New Reader Revenue report highlights 10 best practice case studies

2024-02-02. We continually report on how news publishers, both large and small, in countries worldwide are successfully developing and fine-tuning their reader revenue initiatives to build their subscriber base and reduce churn. Our latest report highlights 10 of the most interesting cases we have encountered in the past 12 months.

WAN-IFRA Unveils Innovate Local Programme to Drive Media Innovation and Sustainability.

2024-01-31. WAN-IFRA announces the launch of Innovate Local, the first global forum for local media. Through the Innovate Local programme, media professionals will be able to exchange actionable and scalable ideas with a focus on opportunities and problems unique to the business of local journalism. The initiative addresses small and midsized local media and local entities of bigger media groups.

New WAN-IFRA report: How to use audience needs to unlock digital transformation

2024-01-30. The report details how 12 European news publishers adopted a digital- and audiences-first approach that helped them embrace new ways of working, build stronger relationships with readers and transform newsroom operations.

Digital Media Awards South Asia 2023 Unveils Top Honours for Digital Media Excellence

2024-01-29. The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) announced the results for the seventh edition of Digital Media Awards South Asia. HT Labs, The Hindu, Prothom Alo, The Quint, and BBC News emerged as the DMA South Asia 2023 winners among more than 100 entries from news publishers across South Asia.

Automation helps Norway’s Fosna-Folket convert users

2024-01-17. Norway’s Polaris Media has been highly tactical in deploying automated content in its newsrooms. One example is its Fosna-Folket title, which has used automation to leverage subscriptions.

‘Just start!’ – Markus Knall on the benefits of Reverse Strategy in AI experimentation

2024-01-12. There’s no escaping AI’s disruption of the media landscape – which is why upskilling is a pressing need for newsrooms. Ippen Digital’s Markus Knall steers newsroom heads wary of aggressive tech infiltration in the right direction.