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Co-directors of French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur resign

The two co-directors of French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, Nathalin Collin and Laurent Joffrin, have both resigned today. The news comes just a couple of months after the leading shareholders of Le Monde took it over. Joffrin will remain head of the company until new directors are appointed.

Newsweek is back – in Print!

A 14-month break from print is long enough. “Newsweek” went on sale again at kiosks on Friday, 7th March 2014. Since January 2012 the U.S. magazine had been available only in digital form, something that lost it many of its regular readers.

Former Le Monde director to launch new French weekly

Eric Fottorino, former director of Le Monde is to launch a new weekly news magazine called Le 1 (The One), AFP has reported. The “weekly of ideas” will deal with just one theme, tackled from a variety of different angles, a combination of literary journalism and reportage. “We are a sort of enfant terrible of the Economist and The New Yorker” Fottorino quipped to the AFP.

“Tear down the walls” – Diego Carvajal brings brand focus to DME14

With a background that spans television, magazines, BBC Radio and quality newspapers, Diego Carvajal has been adapting to the multiple facets of the media evolution for a dozen years, but if you ask how he defines himself, he doesn’t hesitate for a nanosecond.

Blendle and the search for the iTunes of online media

A fresh Dutch start-up has managed to unite the Netherlands’ newspapers behind a single paywall, scheduled to launch in April. It hopes to become the iTunes of online media. But haven’t we been here before with Piano Media? We spoke to the co-founder Marten Blankesteijn to find out whether Blendle might be a model that could make an industry profitable again, and work internationally.

Successfully navigating the glass ceiling at the Financial Times

It’s International Women’s Day and here at the World Editors Forum we’re focused on the ongoing challenges facing women in the news business, as they climb the editorial management ladder. Our editor Julie Posetti asked the Head of Operations at the Financial Times, Lisa MacLeod – the FT’s former Managing Editor – to explain how she chipped the glass ceiling.

An African woman at the helm marks International Women’s Day

“Women must make themselves visible. The media is about visibility. If they take a back seat, nobody will know that they are there. They should be more assertive,” Botswana newspaper publisher Beata Kasale told WAN-IFRA to mark International Women’s Day 2014.

Peekster, the app that allows social sharing from print

New app Peekster could break the disconnect between social and print media that newspapers are hobbled by: “it will stop ‘splitting’ and start ‘joining,'” asserts co-founder of the company, Tine Hamler.

Oscar Pistorius trial on Twitter: A WAN-IFRA analysis

Live tweeting court cases is now the business of mainstream journalism in many countries. And the Oscar Pistorius trial in South Africa is no exception. But what can we learn about journalistic Twitter practice from analysing the feeds of reporters embedded in the Pretoria court room?

Reporting Kiev: Interview with livestream platform Ustream

Livestreaming industry leader Ustream has revealed to WAN-IFRA that it has supported three user groups in Ukraine to the tune of $900,000, with three of its most popular channels achieving approximately 60 million views together. William Pimlott examines the role of Ustream in this third installment of our Reporting Kiev series.