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Süddeutsche Zeitung: How can you drive change when you are still doing quite well?

2024-03-27. Change and transformation are inevitable for publishers when the threat is huge. But for Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), there was no threat – at least in terms of digital subscriptions. Here is how Germany’s biggest quality daily newspaper used the Table Stakes Europe method to build on its ongoing success.

HT Digital sees 20% boost in page views with AI

2024-03-27. India’s HT Digital has achieved a 30 percent boost in content reach and a 20 percent increase in page views after automating a few workflow processes. The newsroom is using AI to reshape digital media strategies, content creation and user journeys.

Expanding hyperlocal coverage: Tamedia grows its local newsletter portfolio with automation

2024-03-26. In the past year, Tamedia strategically implemented content sourcing and production automation, which has led to a significant expansion of its hyperlocal newsletter portfolio in communities with as few as 5,000 inhabitants. This growing portfolio now offers personalised and flexible distribution of local content, reaching up to 40% of the inhabitants in the serviced communities, with engagement rates well above average.

Freeing up newsroom time: How Amedia’s AI sandbox will allow reporters to do more

2024-03-18. In this episode of WAN-IFRA’s “Innovate Local” series of webinars, Markus Rask Jensen, Director of News, presents the new Amedia AI Sandbox. At the end of February, Amedia launched this safe environment for all journalists in the Norwegian local media group to test and use generative AI for various time-saving tasks.

Data drives subscriptions and engagement at NDTV Profit

2024-03-18. In the current media market, with plummeting ad revenues and the impending demise of third-party cookies, subscriptions have become a priority for most publishers worldwide.

Podcast – Believing in the job: Press freedom in the Middle East and North Africa

2024-03-14. MENA has seen great upheaval in recent years, with revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and conflicts that have engulfed the region, like the current war in Gaza. But journalists remain dedicated to promoting the truth, working both pragmatically and creatively to ensure their stories reach the world.

‘We are not brave, we are journalists’ – LATAM editor shares newsroom wins, under deadly conditions

2024-03-08. On International Women’s Day, our EDITOR TO EDITOR interview is with an award-winning editor from one of the most dangerous regions of Mexico – officially the deadliest country for journalists. Andrea Miranda has gained respect for starting and building a regional newspaper into a national brand in the most challenging of environments, and doing much for newsroom equality.

Journal des Enfants to close amid renaissance in print news products for kids

2024-03-07. After exactly 40 years of existence, France’s Journal des Enfants will publish its last weekly edition on 28 March. Such a closure is unusual in Europe where weekly print publications for children have seen a renaissance in recent years.

New podcast: The state of press freedom worldwide

2024-03-06. Journalists, editors and media experts from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and the MENA region talk about the challenges facing the industry and some of the solutions they see making a difference.

Scroll’s AI journey: Progress, challenges and some key learnings

2024-03-04. Scroll, an independent Indian news organisation, began exploring ways to incorporate Artificial Intelligence into its workflow in 2021. The digital-only organisation wanted to adapt its long-form reportage to different formats and video seemed to be its best bet to reach a large audience.