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Inside Russmedia’s dual strategy for regional and global growth

In the January 2014 issue of World News Publishing Focus, we interviewed Eugen Russ, managing director of Austria-based Russmedia, for our cover story. It is an interesting case of regional publisher’s strategy to create separate divisions focused on traditional business and purely digital.

Editors change around the globe

In the past few weeks there has been a spate of editor changes in newsrooms across the world. In Spain the national Madrid-based dailies El País and El Mundo, as well as Barcelona-based La Vanguardia, all changed editors, while there have also been new appointments in Argentina, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

How to compare spectrophotometers

Fons Put works as senior innovation consultant for VIGC, the Flemish Innovation Center for Graphic Communication. His contribution refers to the new colour measuring equipment (eXact from X-Rite) that WAN-IFRA has chosen for the evaluations for the International Newspaper Color Quality Club 2014–2016 contest.

German journalists and editors engage in “successful” strike

About 1000 editors and journalists have staged a strike over pay and conditions in Western Germany this week.

Reporting Kiev: An interview with Storyful’s Alan O’Riordan

In the past few days an enormous amount of User Generated Content has documented unfolding events in the Ukraine. News outlets, both traditional and cutting edge, have been trying to verify this output. The Editor’s Weblog asked Storyful, one of the market leaders in social journalism, how this flood of content is being managed.

Press freedom mission in Kiev hears of ‘appalling violence’ against journalists

An international press freedom mission in Kiev has concluded after hearing “…an appalling number of cases of violence and harassment against journalists,” including the brutal murder of Vesti journalist Vyacheslav Veremy.

LinkedIn follows the ‘platisher’ agenda

LinkedIn has begun to offer users of its site the capacity to publish content and make it visible to all account holders. Previously this feature was only available to special “Influencer users.” Starting with 25,000 users this month, the option is to be opened to all users over the next few weeks.

Australian photographer forced to delete images after being held by private security guard

Sydney Morning Herald photographer Nick Moir has been detained by private security guards working for an Australian immigration detention centre in Papua New Guinea.

Journalists use social media to strike back

Since the rise of social media, news organisations have tried to control individual journalists’ use of the platforms. Journalists, however, are beginning to push back. Internationally this is taking the form of social media campaigns run by journalists to critique their employers and garner public support.

An Italian journey to digital first

Last year Italian regional Il Tirreno began an experiment, turning one of its local newsrooms into a digital-first operation. The site chosen for this shift was Prato, the second largest city in Tuscany, with 200,000 inhabitants and a large Chinese community.