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Documented: redefining community service journalism for the mobile age

2024-02-09. Award-winning non-profit news site Documented has taken audience engagement to the next level, and is now covering three New York immigrant communities via social media with news, investigations and resource guides. It’s just journalism, they say…

WEXFO: The Global Free Speech Recession – and How to Fight It?

2024-02-08. High-profile speakers have joined the programme of the World Expression Forum (WEXFO) in Lillehammer, a city renowned for its links to literature and writers at risk

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

World’s press condemns threats and legal harassment of cartoonist Carlín and La República in Peru

2024-02-02. WAN-IFRA has denounced efforts by government and police in Peru to undermine freedom of expression after the publication of a cartoon drawing attention to recent public scandals.

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.

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.

3D Theory of Change: new tool helps create and measure newsroom impact

2023-01-25. Building your Roadmap for Impact, a new report by climateXchange, is out now to help newsrooms navigate the process of change, with the aim of increasing the impact of climate content.

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.

AI, sustainability, and elections: global editors share key concerns for 2024

2024-01-12. Globally, news media faces an uncertain future, compounded by general mistrust, big tech challenges, and mis/disinformation at scale. The good news is that across the world, editors, publishers and newsroom leaders are (mostly) up to the challenge.

Sales expertise, gender diversity key to digital media success, initiative finds

2024-01-11. Digital native companies with dedicated sales teams and solid gender diversity are more successful than those that do not, according to findings from a year-long multi-national research initiative by Project Oasis.