Unlike publishers, hotel executives are focusing on people rather than profits, letting go of traditional ways, and rethinking the way they do business.
The Online News Association (ONA) released a new ethical code on Friday to help the industry set standards around social newsgathering, a much-needed protocol given the recent mishandling of user generated content even by large media organizations.
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Google and Facebook have locked horns in the race to speed up the mobile web for publishers in order to take a dominant position in how news content is distributed online. With Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and Facebook’s Instant Articles vying to make reading news stories easier and faster online, and specifically on mobile, how should publishers approach these opportunities?
What does selling online news have in common with selling shaving razors?
Are third party platforms the new publishers and does that signal the end of journalism? In an interview with the World Editors Forum, Jeff Jarvis tells how publishers should be working with, not against, platforms.
Established in October 2013, Shanghai United Media Group (SUMG) was formed through the merger of Shanghai’s two main newspaper groups –Jiefang Daily Group and Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group – in a bid to accelerate media reform and develop multimedia platforms to drive growth. Two years and a few months down the road, SUMG’s Chairman and President, Qiu Xin, openly discusses with WAN-IFRA’s Gilles Demptos the transformations that have been achieved so far and the challenges that remain ahead.
Another breaking news event, another mass misattribution of viral videos – even by leading global media organisations, like CNN and The Guardian. The World Editors Forum spoke to David Clinch, Global News Editor of social news agency Storyful about the failing verification of user-generated content.
Image by Chris Karaba, staff photographer at Luxemburger Wort “They killed two of my friends in 2013. Then they were after me. I had already received death threats by phone from a private number. I was making a reportage with my camera man and driver when they shot my car in Baghdad. Immediately, I called my mother, who […]
Media Honeypot … sounds like a hip, media startup. In fact, the event for matching startups with media companies is vying to become a melting pot for the media startup scene.
The fragmentation of media introduced by digital technology and now amplified by powerful social platforms comes with a risk to journalism and democracy, warns Ricardo Gandour, director of Brazil’s Estado media group, which includes the 141-year old flagship daily newspaper, O Estado de S.Paulo.