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Japan’s Nikkei aims for greater subscriber engagement through new metrics

2023-11-29. By rethinking the data and metrics they use, practising customer segmentation and listening carefully to subscribers, as well as sharing learnings with the FT, Nikkei strives to stay ahead of the game in terms of digital subscriptions.

View from Palestine: Warped lives and journalism

2023-11-28. Fifty days of Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza. Fifteen thousand people including 10,000 women and children and 57 journalists have been killed. We are focused on the daily events and travesty of war but as Shuruq AlAssad tells Fatemah Farag – the only way to contextualize this violence is to know about life and journalism under Israeli occupation.

Konsolidierung im Zeitungsdruck: Expertenrunde diskutierte detailliert das Warum und Wie

2023-11-28. Zu Beginn des zweiten Veranstaltungstages (12. Oktober 2023) vom World Printers Forum in Frankfurt am Main fand – speziell für den DACH-Raum – eine Diskussionsrunde zum Thema „Konsolidierung im Zeitungsdruck“ in deutscher Sprache statt.

How The Guardian continues to drive print revenues through subscriptions

2023-11-24. The Guardian has maintained its subscription growth in print while also growing its digital revenues and audience, which now has 81 million unique monthly visitors globally. The Guardian’s publishing director Mylene Sylvestre explains how they have achieved this.

‘Let’s reset’ – top educator Nico Drok calls for a different type of journalism

2023-11-24. Journalism today is mistrusted, maligned, unsafe, even deadly. What could the future possibly hold for aspiring reporters? Nico Drok shares results from a global survey of educators – and offers advice for journalists and newsrooms.

Lessons and wins from four years on the FT’s Next Gen Board

2023-11-24. Heading into its fifth year, the Financial Times’ Next Generation Board shows that inclusion and collaboration really works.

WAN-IFRA, Google News Initiative launch a reader revenue lab for Latin American media

2023-11-21. For four months, a total of 15 teams from Latin American news organisations will participate in a laboratory funded by the Google News initiative, with the aim of helping them optimise and enhance their reader revenue models.

New report: Mineral oil-free inks are on par with conventional inks

2023-11-20. Switching to mineral oil-free inks presents challenges for news publishers. Our new report sheds light on solutions to these challenges and highlights what printers must keep in mind before they change inks.

Paying for News: Google and Meta Owe US Publishers $11.9-$13.9 Billion each year

2023-11-17. $11.9 to $13.9 Billion each year is the amount that a recent working paper estimates Google and Meta would owe US publishers if the proposed Journalism Competition and Preservation Act were to be passed in the US.

AI takes centre stage at Korea Press Foundation conference

2023-11-17. At the Korea Press Foundation Journalism Conference 2023 on “AI and the Transformation of the News Industry,” speakers and attendants agreed on the collaboration among media organisations as a crucial component of the strategy that publishers should adopt on the face of the rapid development of AI technology.