The Wall Street Journal’s redesign of its digital platforms comes at an opportune moment, coinciding with the release of Google’s new mobile-search algorithm, which aims to filter out sites with poor mobile user-friendliness.
“It’s easier than ever to make content; barriers to production are non-existent,” said David Wilding (pictured), Director of Planning for Twitter, UK. Wilding was offering participants at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference in London his perspective on what brands need to bring to the table if they want to succeed in content marketing.
The Wall Street Journal has just unveiled a redesigned WSJ.com – the first overhaul since 2008. It may be a case of “playing a game of digital catch-up” with competitors but mobile is clearly now forefront of mind. Former managing editor at Mashable, Emily Banks is now lead news editor for mobile at The Wall Street Journal. In this interview* with Angelique Lu, she talks about her new role, wearables, the Apple Watch, chat apps, automation and what 2016 holds for mobile news.
It’s never easy to single out one winner or publisher in a multi-category awards competition, and this year’s European Digital Media Awards is a good case in point, so I will take the high road. One common denominator is clear, however: each winner consistently said the commitment and involvement from numerous parts of their organisations was a major key to their success.
“Periodismo a pesar de todo”: The motto of the Spain-based news startup site eldiaro.es can be roughly translated as “We do journalism in spite of everything.”
US politics and policy news site POLITICO has today launched in Europe. Based in Brussels, the new European site will cover ‘policy and politics for their own sake’ as part of their long term global expansion strategy. Politico Editor-at-Large Bill Nichols spoke to Angelique Lu about the move into Europe in partnership with Axel Springer, and how they’re navigating the multicultural and multilingual European landscape.
With nearly 87 percent of Americans watching online video these days, it’s a statistic that has hit home to the iconic national daily USA Today.
Digiday called them “the most formidable millennial whisperer of the bunch” For Greg Dybec, Managing Editor, Elite Daily, this would not be possible if the company itself was not run by millennials. He joined us at DME15 in London.
“Analytics and data shouldn’t be a form of judgement but should instead be empowerment – that data is your readers telling you what they care about,” Sachin Kamdar, CEO, Parse.ly, tells participants at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference in London.
The report raises the key questions about these potentially disruptive technologies so you can better determine a course of action – or non-action.
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.