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Print’s new pioneers: paper and ink in the digital age

With print circulations plummeting and most organisations looking to digital, a new daily newspaper has arrived on Los Angeles newsstands: The Los Angeles Register. Launched on Wednesday, the new centre-right paper looks to challenge the dominance of the Los Angeles Times in the city, even as its rival sees a drop in readership.

‘Video Now’ Is this the future?

The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School has released a multimedia report titled “Video Now: The Form, Cost and Effect of Video Journalism”.

Women’s news agency seeks to challenge gender stereotypes in Palestine

“The Palestinian media portray stereotypes of women as sisters, daughters and wives of a male hero, or we are the victims who cry and weep after the death of a beloved one or over a demolished house.” To challenge such stereotypes, Wafa’ Abdel Rahman decided to launch NAWA, a women’s news agency in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Read now, pay later: Is LaterPay the longed-for silver bullet?

The debate over paywalls, freemium and online subscriptions continues to rage as publications try to find the best way to monetise their product. Amidst it all, a German start-up has quietly been developing what they think could be the solution – LaterPay.

Cleaning up online comments

Online comments on news articles have once again come under scrutiny in recent days. The Chicago Sun-Times has temporarily suspended comments across their website, while The Guardian has been grappling with the issue following the death of Peaches Geldof.

MediaHackDays: The goal is radical innovation

In just a few weeks, some 80 to 100 developers and journalists from around the world are expected to arrive in Aarhus, Denmark, to take part in MediaHackDays, an event organised by Hacks/Hackers and supported by CCI Europe and WAN-IFRA with the Guardian of the U.K. and Knight-Mozilla’s OpenNews as partners.

Thousands in Moscow march against the Crimean media crisis towards a “Putin-free Russia”

Thousands of participants gathered in the centre of Moscow yesterday to take part in the “March of Truth”, dedicated to freedom of speech and journalistic independence. The official theme of the event was the defence of the integrity of mass-media.

Q&A with Ubilab’s Eduardo Campos Pellanda: We like problems

In the run up to the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum, we’ve been talking to some of the experts who will be speaking in Torino in June. Eduardo Campos Pellanda is Director of the Ubilab at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), and helping to carry out research on Google Glass with the MIT Mobile Experience Lab.

Argentinian newspaper La Nación’s new editor talks digital and the World Cup

Carlos Guyot may have only been editor in chief of La Nación for a few weeks, but his aims are grand. “La Nación has to offer poignant, intelligent and accessible journalism on all of its platforms, so that our readers feel part of a conversation that enriches and enhances their lives” Guyot explained to WAN-IFRA.

What we learned at the Digital Media Europe Conference #DME14

WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference, staged in London this week, focused attention on mobile, the role of video, social news and the vexed issue of paid content. Here is the World Editors Forum curation of the event highlights.