Britain’s No More Page Three campaign challenges Rupert Murdoch to finally can topless photo feature

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has been coming under increasing fire from a group of campaigners seeking to end ‘Page Three’, a feature in British tabloid The Sun which splashes images of topless female models alongside serious news content.

Chat apps: the future of news?

Heralded as the next generation of social media, chat apps BBM, Snapchat, WeChat and WhatsApp are the latest forms of social media to be utilised for content marketing by news agencies. Livi Wilkinson explores the BBC’s chat apps strategy.

Women’s work: recognising female achievement in the newsrooms of Africa

WAN-IFRA and the African Media Initiative have teamed up to create a new award to recognise women occupying senior positions in African newsrooms.

South African media expert derides potential SAPA take-over bids

“Sapa is little more than a shell”. Prominent South African journalism professor Anton Harber has issued a scathing critique about investment group Sekunjalo’s bid for ailing South African national news agency, Sapa.”It is hard to see how a national agency can be owned by one newspaper company, especially since Sekunjalo has shown little respect for editorial freedom or independence.” Harber told the World Editors Forum.

Trends in Newsrooms #10: The evolving editor – new age, new skills

“As an editor, journalism is only 20 percent of your job,” Jonathan Halls, adjunct professor at George Washington University, has said. So, what does it take to lead a newsroom today? In this tenth installment from our Trends in Newsrooms blog series, we look at how some top editors around the world leading their newsrooms through these challenging times.

Reporting Ebola: a story of divergent Western and African experiences

Harrowing stories of human suffering are coming out of West Africa as the Ebola crisis continues, but the outbreak is also revealing stark differences between the way Western correspondents and African journalists are able to protect their own health when covering it.

Ceylon Today offers 4D experience

“We want to give our readers something new and exciting all the time,” says Saranga Wijeyarathne, Director of Marketing for Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Newspapers Limited, whose Ceylon Today recently produced the world’s first 4D newspaper experience

HOME BUSINESS DIGITAL MEDIA EDITORIAL INCUBATOR PRESS FREEDOM MEDIA POLICY “There’s quite a lot of fear in data”: the Financial Times’ Tom Betts on the need for trust, transparency and respect in the business of data analytics

“There’s quite a lot of fear in data. There’s fear from the newsrooms that it’s used as a management tool, and then there’s fear from customers about how their information’s being used,” observes Tom Betts, VP of Customer Analytics and Research, at Pearson Professional, which includes the Financial Times. Betts also says FT subscribers “…are pretty terrified of algorithms taking over, and dictating what they read.”

The Financial Times’ mobile-led weekend evolution

The Financial Times stands out as a global case study in changing news media consumption, as the UK market joins the US in crossing the mobile-desktop threshhold. Around sixty percent of the FT’s online subscriber readership now comes via a mobile device, and it is being driven by increases in digital consumption at weekends, and outside core working hours.

French case study in crowdfunding brings journalism closer to its audience

The journalists’ collective seeking to buy a group of French daily newspapers expects to reach its initial crowdfunding goal by the end of the week.

But one of the journalists behind the Nice Matin campaign has told the World Editors Forum that they will continue their fundraising efforts beyond that goal.