“You can’t speak truth to power from behind a paywall” – Paul Carr, Pando DailyAfter three intense days of our Study Tour to San Francisco, the west coast view of original news content seems brutally clear: news is a loss leader and real investigative journalism can only be funded by donations.
“You can’t speak truth to power from behind a paywall” – Paul Carr, Pando Daily
After three intense days of our Study Tour to San Francisco, the west coast view of original news content seems brutally clear: news is a loss leader and real investigative journalism can only be funded by donations.
Publications such as Reuters, the Chicago Sun-Times, tech site Re/Code and Popular Science have all turned off their commenting system on their news sites. The arduous task of moderating the hundreds of uncivil comments that plague comment threads are making news sites reconsider their value. With more and more sites turning towards social media for reader contribution, Ashleigh Tullis reports on the future of online reader comments.
During these challenging times for newspapers, it can be tempting to wallow in the memories of the good old times, focusing on past glories. But at Italian daily La Stampa, memories are a link to the future. Federica Cherubini reports.
Vietnam Plus, an online news site, is using rap music to engage their younger audiences. Editor-in-Chief Le Quoc Minh talks to Angelique Lu about the popularity of the videos.
Consistent studies have shown that social media users are more likely to trust content shared by journalists and major news institutions. So what happens when journalists failed to fact check their sources before it’s shared? Angelique Lu looks at five examples involving celebrities.
A front page photograph of an injured cricketer published by The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) has caused a heated backlash on social media that generated an explainer statement from the paper’s Editor-in-Chief. The photograph showed stricken cricketer Phillip Hughes being cradled by NSW bowler Sean Abbott and highlighted the difficulty of navigating privacy and ethics in the digital era.
Emily Bell’s outstanding speech to the Reuters Institute last week stirred many plaudits, but also some reservations, among media commentators. WAN-IFRA Research Fellow Julie Posetti curates the reactions and shares her own.
Last Friday, Emily Bell, Director at the TOW Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, delivered what the World Editors Forum believes to be the year’s most definitive speech on the future of journalism. In it, she challenged journalists and editors to hold dominant technology companies publicly accountable, take the lead in technological innovation in news and help to shape the ‘new public sphere’. This is an edited version of her speech to the Reuters Institute in Oxford, published with permission.
The potential of chat apps, brand extension at The New York Times, youth innovation and mobile storytelling were the key themes at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Asia event which was staged in Singapore last week. Here is Ashleigh Tullis’ wrap of the presenters’ industry insights and the most innovative technologies and ideas.
PressReader is the oldest digital kiosk on the market. At the heart of its development strategy are mobile platforms. On mobile, “there’s a generation gap that calls for a differentiation in the service we offer,” says Chief Content Officer Nikolay Malyarov. “There is a split between generations still loyal to the digital replicas of a publication, and younger readers, who are open to aggregated contents personalised to their interests.”
Recently launched Russia Today UK had half a million viewers in its first week of broadcasting U.K. specific content. And RT UK has nearly double the number of U.K. viewers as Fox News according to BARB statistics. Audiences appear to be receptive of the Kremlin-funded channel, despite claims that it is simply a Putin propaganda vehicle. Ashleigh Tullis reports.
The Stibo Accelerator, a member of WAN-IFRA’s Innovation Hub, is teaming up with University students and researchers to stimulative creativity and explore future possibilities for the media industry. Angelique Lu explores the latest projects in motion within the Denmark-based operation.