Google’s Senior Director of News and Social Products, Richard Gingras, is pitching for closer ties with legacy news organisations. Google has a complex relationship with publishers but proudly sends 10 billion visits to news websites each month.Delivering a keynote address at the #MediasDemain conference in Paris last week, Gingras called for increased collaboration with publishers: “in sharing of ideas, in providing enabling platforms, in helping improve information architectures.” Here are the edited highlights of his speech.
Google’s Senior Director of News and Social Products, Richard Gingras, is pitching for closer ties with legacy news organisations. Google has a complex relationship with publishers but proudly sends 10 billion visits to news websites each month.
Delivering a keynote address at the #MediasDemain conference in Paris last week, Gingras called for increased collaboration with publishers: “in sharing of ideas, in providing enabling platforms, in helping improve information architectures.” Here are the edited highlights of his speech.
A new UNESCO study underlines the growing threats confronting online journalism, and provides a framework to help build digital safety for journalists. The study identifies 12 key challenges and it recommends that practitioners develop a “threat model” on which to build a personal security plan that covers both digital and physical threats. Julie Posetti reports.
In mid-March, The Economist was among a group of five major global publishers that announced the launch of the Pangaea Alliance, which is described as “a new digital advertising proposition that will allow brands to collectively access a highly influential global audience via the latest programmatic technology.”
Freed from an Egyptian jail on terrorism-related charges, Greste has called for a global ‘gold standard’ to define the relationship between governments and the press, amid an international climate where the so-called ‘war on terror’ is used by governments to justify repression of press freedom.
We have been all about User Generated Content (UGC), but now it’s time to truly connect journalism to devices and shift the discussion to User Generated Data, according to former AP UGC Editor Fergus Bell in this guest post.
Today’s #MediasDemain conference (Towards the media of tomorrow) in Paris, organised by Google-IPWA’s Fund for Digital Innovation of the Press (FINP) and WAN-IFRA, was a chance for news media to gather before a showcase of innovative projects driving change in the industry. Here are the highlights curated by Jake Evans and Julie Posetti.
The New York Times is reporting that several key global publishers may be close to a deal with Facebook on hosted content and a possible revenue share. This could be a pivotal moment for the industry.
In a world where women are still dramatically under-represented behind editors’ desks, the appointment of Katharine Viner as The Guardian’s first female Editor-in-Chief has women journalists across the globe fist-pumping in the direction of the glass ceiling. Julie Posetti reports.
Millennials discover news through Facebook, not the homepage of a legacy newspaper, and they don’t care much about government spying, as the American Press Institute’s (APi) study on ‘How millennials get news’ reported. APi’s Executive Director Tom Rosenstiel tells the World Editors Forum what he takes away from the study, and how the trends of the first digital generation are likely to impact journalism.
Here’s some start-up trivia for you: In Silicon Valley the concentration of billion-dollar Internet companies is 7.4 per million inhabitants. In Stockholm that figure is 6.3. And they all grew out of a tech start-up culture, which has produced the likes of Skype, Spotify, Mojang, creators of Minecraft, and mobile game giant King. In fact, the per capita figures above were worked out by Skype founder Niklas Zennström’s London-based VC firm Atomico.
The new journalism startups have one fundamental difference with their old school colleagues: they believe the age of the homepage is over. But are they jumping the gun?
News publishers must approach data privacy from two directions: On one hand, as a trusted journalism brand, you need to protect your users’ data and respect their wish to remain private. At the same time, gathering and processing user data is fundamental to generating revenue. Balancing those two interests represents a challenge.