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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.

Bill Keller on philanthropic journalism

“Journalistic integrity can flourish or suffocate under any of the major business models,” Bill Keller writes in an exclusive post for the Editors Weblog. Here he assesses the implications for philanthropic journalism of the recent Greenwald-Ames spat. Keller, former Executive Editor of the New York Times, is Editor-In-Chief of the start-up The Marshall Project – an independent website dedicated to covering the US criminal justice system.

Ames, Greenwald, Keller and the problem of philanthropically funded journalism

Bill Keller, former executive editor of the New York Times and now himself editor of an independent journalism project dedicated to criminal justice issues, has entered the debate over philanthropic journalism triggered by an online spat between journalists Glenn Greenwald and Mark Ames.

New weekly launched in Australia: The Saturday Paper

On 1 March the first edition of the new weekly The Saturday Paper hit the streets in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. It is a newspaper that is intended to be different from any other newspaper.

Guardian digital revenues rise as newspaper future ‘secured’

Digital revenues at The Guardian have risen from £55 million to £70 million.

Cyber security is no longer just an IT problem

Cyber attacks can hit everybody and every company that is doing business via the web. The attached article (see PDF in English and German) from Shai Arbel, CFO & COO of a company called Terrogence in Israel, is about cyber security.

Follow-up: The entrepreneurial editor

The German editor who bought his own magazine and made it profitable, told WAN-IFRA earlier this week that “Only a few editors-in-chief can really think entrepreneurially.” It was a thought-provoking statement from Impulse editor-proprietor, Nikolaus Förster. So, we decided to push him a litter harder on the inter-related themes of entrepreneurialism and profitability in this second interview installment.

The editor who bought his own magazine and made it profitable

“Only a few editors-in-chief can really think entrepreneurially,” asserts German magazine editor Nikolaus Förster. He bought Impulse a year ago in a management buy-out from publisher Grüner + Jahr and the move is proving profitable.

Fairfax Media evaluates production alternatives for remote printing

Fairfax Media is looking at ways in which digital printing technology might be used in remote sites. The new Magnum Compact, equipped with automatic plate changer, however could be an alternative.

Interview with Ulrich Schmitz, CTO, Axel Springer

Axel Springer has been at the forefront of the paid-for online content and digital innovation frontiers, particularly in Europe. Ulrich Schmitz, CTO of Axel Springer’s Electronic Media Division, has played a pivotal role in the company’s digital strategy. Guest contributor Ana-Maria Leonte of Evolok, a software solutions provider, interviewed Schmitz at WAN-IFRA’s Media Hack Day during the World Publishing Expo in Berlin this past fall.