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Trends in Newsrooms #4: Analytics – when data drives the newsroom

Who is your audience? Is your content actually reaching your audiences? How are they engaging with your content? And what impact is your journalism really having? These are the questions individual journalists are now being encouraged to respond to as newsrooms realise that stories no longer end when the author hits “publish.”

Eight stops into the German publishing and startup ecosystem

Affordable rent and the cool vibe of Berlin make the capital of Germany a top destination for European startups. After the success of our startup tour at last year’s World Publishing Expo 2013, we hooked up again with local experts Kindai Projects to explore the German startup landscape and visit two truly innovative newsrooms. Editors-in-chief from Norway, Switzerland and The Netherlands joined us on the journey.

Metered paywalls gaining momentum in the U.K.

A Newsquest-owned Scottish regional daily claims to have more than 10,000 paying subscribers to its metered-paywall site. Separately, the editor of the U.K.’s largest-selling regional paper says a metered paywall is the best business model for newspaper websites.

Jay Rosen to journalists and editors: ‘Facebook has all the power. You have almost none’

Amid growing calls for US and UK regulators to launch formal investigations into Facebook’s disturbing mood manipulation research, leading US media scholar Jay Rosen has a reminder for journalists, editors and personal social media users alike: “Facebook has all the power. You have almost none.”

Trends in Newsrooms #3: Back to basics with social media verification

The rapid spread of online misinformation was voted one of the top 10 trends facing the world in 2014 by members of the World Economic Forum’s Network of Global Agenda Councils. In this third installment in the World Editors Forum blog series on the 2014 Trends in Newsrooms report, Julie Posetti and Craig Silverman report on social media verification trends.

Paid digital content: the journey continues

It has been nearly a year since the SFN Report “Paid digital content: The journey begins” was published, so we met with Valérie Arnould, author of the report, for an update on the rapidly evolving paid-content situation.

Trends in Newsrooms #2: Rebooting newsroom strategy as mobile surpasses desktop and wearables hit the market

In this second instalment of The World Editors Forum’s Trends in Newsrooms blog series exploring the top ten industry trends of 2014, Karen Kissane reports on Trend 2: the inexorable rise of mobile news consumption.

The 2014 World Young Reader Prize – HOW TO ENTER

The World Young Reader Prizes are awarded annually to innovative news publishers that have devised, in the judges’ opinion, the best project or activity in the past 24 months in one or more of the main areas of young reader development. This year sees four new special categories, and it’s easy to enter!

Four tech innovations that might save the life of a journalist

Mobile personal security apps and devices are enabling journalists to instantly alert human rights groups and their own networks about physical threats of abduction, unlawful arrest and violence. Sydney Pead reports on innovations in journalism safety targeting journalists on the frontline.

Crucial time for drone reporting laws: industry needs to act

Journalism needs to get “a seat at the table so that free press rights and free speech rights are part of the conversation,” in evolving drone legislation, Matthew Waite, founder of the Drone Journalism Lab told the World Editors Forum.