Andy Mitchell, Facebook’s director of of news and global media partnerships, arrived at the (superb) International Journalism Festival in Perugia last week to speak about news on Facebook. Thirty per cent of American adults get their news via Facebook (27% in the UK); 88% of millennials in the US do so (71% in Italy). Each month, 1.4bn use Facebook. That makes Mitchell one of the most – if not the most – powerful news distributor on the planet, writes George Brock, Professor of Journalism at City University, London, in this guest post.
“Too much on the internet mimicks what we’ve done in print for hundreds of years” said Lockhart Steele, Editorial Director, Vox Media at DME15 this morning, with a nod to their Editor-in-Chief and ex-Washington Post man Ezra Klein. That’s why Vox is doing things very differently.
Silicon Valley used to have the hippie culture and back then the most popular word was “love.” Now the most popular word is “disruption.”
WAN-IFRA’s 10th Annual Middle East Conference drew more than 250 participants to Dubai, UAE, which once again hosted this key event for news publishers in the region.
In just a few years, Sanoma’s Mobile Development Centre in Budapest has evolved into a centre of excellence for the creation and development of media applications, launching hundreds of apps for the group and its clients in a wide range of industries.
Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, recently gave the 2015 Hays Press-Enterprise lecture at the University of California on journalism’s move from print to digital. Here are 14 highlights from the speech.
While debates about the ethics of User Generated Content (UGC) roll on, it’s time to focus on the next big challenge: leveraging User Generated Data. UGD is an idea being explored by Fergus Bell. In this guest post, he outlines his tips for editors keen to do more with audience data, and highlights the early emerging ethical challenges.
The Apple Watch has brought renewed buzz (and mixed reviews) to the wearables discussion, with news executives watching to see what publishers do with the device. New York Times R&D lab’s Executive Director Matt Boggie looks beyond the release of a single device to the future implications of small screen technology.
At a breakfast at its London headquarters Editor-in-Chief Richard Addis unveiled a strategy to grow the European audience through investments in redesign and a focus on quality and longform reporting.
Just one week before the Finnish elections on 19 April and with the potential new Prime Minister in the studio next door, Hanna Kouri, Channel Director, ISTV, took time out to tell us about their success with their online video platform.
Gannett has become an industry leader in virtual reality story telling and its flagship newspaper USA Today is embracing the technology with strategic purpose. Editor-in-Chief David Callaway says the growing use of VR in news is a natural progression from the widespread uptake of video in online content and it’s about to take off. Callaway spoke to Angelique Lu.
“News doesn’t belong on paper anymore,” says Samir A. Husni, Professor and Hederman Lecturer, Magazine Innovation Center, The University of Mississippi, USA. “My daily newspaper must remain daily, but the content must become weekly on a daily basis. And that’s what we’re seeing with magazines; all the successful ones are becoming monthlies on a weekly basis.”