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Ouest Médialab: Focus on local innovation key to staying ‘rooted in reality’

2023-07-21. The collaborative media lab based in Nantes, France, works closely with local publishers and innovative players in their region. Direct contact with local media innovators helps the lab stay focused on the real issues that companies in their network deal with.

Of north stars and moon shots: Nation Media’s bold two-step journey to 500 million engagements

2023-07-21. “We know it’s audacious, but we think it’s achievable.” – Pamela Sittoni, Group Managing Editor. A quarter of a century after opening its online desk, the Kenyan legacy media group is relooking its digital-first approach with a bold move to becoming Africa’s go-to content platform.

With 700,000 paying subscribers, digital more profitable than print for Argentina’s Clarín

2023-07-19. With 30 million readers, and paying digital subscribers surging past 700,000, Clarín has the distinction of having the largest number of paid digital users for any news publisher in Latin America.

A decade with AI: How Norway’s Adresseavisen uses AI to boost engagement

2023-07-05. For many people working in journalism, their first question about Generative AI is: ‘Will AI take my job?,’ says Christer Johnsen of Adresseavisen. His response is: “No, but a reporter who knows how to use AI might.”

Joseph Kahn on his first year as New York Times’ Executive Editor

2023-06-30. “I’m not on the hook as editor or any specific KPIs, if you will, around digital subscription growth. What I’m on the hook for is creating a news report that is urgent, relevant to more and more people and distinctive.” In a one-on-one, Joseph Kahn reflects on his first 12 months as The New York Times’ Executive Editor during the World News Media Congress in Taipei.

What are the pros and cons of using Artificial Intelligence in your newsroom?

2023-06-27. Lyndsey Jones, publishing consultant, digital transformation expert, strategic advisor and coach, shares her views about how to navigate an AI world where there is likely to be a further explosion of content creation in an overcrowded market.

‘Measuring impact is not good for business – it’s great for business,’ Daily Maverick’s Styli Charalambous

2023-06-23. News avoidance is high, and trust in news is low. How, though, are newsrooms responding and adapting to the changes required to remain relevant? See why Daily Maverick’s Styli Charalambous commits to Impact Measurement.

The secret to engaging younger readers: ‘You have to adapt to your audience – they will not adapt to you’

2023-06-22. Pakistan’s The Current was founded with the aim of reaching younger people. It has been successful through a mix of having a young staff who knows what other young people want and how to deliver it to them as well as offering them with services they are willing to pay for.

Pare back and evolve: how the future of digital storytelling hinges on hassle-free tech

2023-06-14. “We should be choosing what we want to keep, not what we want to get rid of” – so says Japanese tidying guru Marie Kondo, in an adage that rings almost universally true, no matter what scenario in life it’s applied to. | Sponsored Content

The Economist’s journey to become a digital-first brand

2023-06-12. “The business side of the company will always be focused on the data, but the editorial side doesn’t want to 100 percent go that way,” says Adam Roberts of The Economist. “If we do that, we stop being distinct and can’t charge the prices that we do.”