2022-06-27. Repost is a new independent digital newspaper in Russian, launched last week and supported via a non-profit foundation by Amedia in Norway and Bonnier News in Sweden.
2022-06-17. TikTok has been confirmed as a significant and rapidly growing player in the news ecosystem by the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2022, which also showed a worrying level of news avoidance by young people. How do you appeal to this market? Is it time to throw all your social media resources at TikTok? Digital journalist and audience strategist Francesco Zaffarano offers his view.
2022-06-16. The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), as part of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR), has published the English translation of the 2021 iteration of “Feindbild”, an annual study into politically-motivated violence against journalists in Germany.
2022-06-09. Newsrooms today are grappling with the changing demands of the workforce, which has come to expect more flexibility and a better work-life balance. But how do the needs of employees align with newsroom operational requirements? And how can organisations address the continuing challenges around attracting talent and countering the lack of diversity in newsrooms?
2022-06-07. Individual donors and funding organisations recognise the importance of quality and independent journalism and will go out of their way to support it.
2022-06-02. The Guardian is now more than 200 years old, but the past 10 years have proven to be among the most exciting in its history. One of the biggest changes for the UK-based global news publisher has been the move to a reader contribution revenue model that launched in late 2015 and has been enormously successful.
2022-05-31. The Globe and Mail, Canada’s largest independently-owned media business, connects with more than 70 percent of the country’s population each month.
2022-05-30. Most news startups are founded by journalists who lack an understanding of the business side of newsrooms. Reality hits hard when funding and investments become a priority – besides the passion for news – to achieve sustainable growth.
2022-05-24. The latest episode of the Backstory Media Freedom podcast looks at how journalists cover sensitive stories while remaining safe on the job. We talk to reporters who shine a light on environmental issues, politics, and minority communities about their experiences of doing public interest journalism in the face of serious threats.
2022-05-13. [Official statement] Despite rejection of a criminal investigation by Israeli authorities, WAN-IFRA reiterates demands for an independent inquiry into the killing of the prominent Palestinian-American journalist, urging Israel to cooperate fully in bringing perpetrators to account.