The Irish Independent online newspaper has reported that its former owner Tony O’Reilly, the former CEO of Independent News and Media may file for bankruptcy in the Bahamas.
Journalism needs to get “a seat at the table so that free press rights and free speech rights are part of the conversation,” in evolving drone legislation, Matthew Waite, founder of the Drone Journalism Lab told the World Editors Forum.
Speakers at this year’s World Advertising Forum in Turin made it clear that the trends shaping the industry in recent years are still strongly present, there is also a major sense of hope for digital revenues in the form of the tablet.
My primary takeaways from the Congress sessions in Turin: constant innovation (“think like a startup”), collaboration (“why go it alone?”), mobile, mobile, mobile, leveraging technology, and data.
Naspers is preparing to celebrate its centenary in 2015. After being on the brink of bankruptcy several times in its earlier days, the company is now a successful global player, operating print, pay TV and internet services.
European online news publisher The Local has launched its ninth addition in Denmark today, further enhancing the reach of English language European news to an expanding audience of Anglophones.
When journalists and editors from around the globe met in Torino for the 21st World Editors forum this month, the key themes of discussion were: the onward progression of the digital transformation of newsrooms and story-telling; the impact of the Snowden-effect; abuses of press freedom; the increasingly important role of video stories; the boundary crossing of globalised journalism; and the evolving role of the editor.
In the post-Snowden era, newsrooms are increasingly aware of state-sponsored breaches of privacy and the threat they pose to journalists and their sources. Some newsrooms have introduced sophisticated anti-surveillance technology, and others have literally reverted to notepad, pen and clandestine meetings in the interests of shielding their sources and avoiding state, and corporate, electronic surveillance.
The unprecedented structural crisis for the print media in Spain has resulted in the closing of more than 200 media outlets. However, at the same time, at least 300 journalistic initiatives and new titles have been created by journalists during the economic crisis. How are they trying to engage the reader in the sustainability of quality journalism? Mariona Sanz Cortell reports.
The verdicts in the phone-hacking trial raise an interesting question: how much do editors know about what happens in their newsrooms? Charlie Beckett from the London School of Economics’ Polis think tank writes that the problem at the News of the World was symptomatic of a certain period in tabloid journalism.
The British Prime Minister’s former head of communications, Andy Coulson is facing jail after being found guilty of a charge of conspiracy to hack voicemails.
The Washington Post and The New York Times are collaborating with software designer Mozilla to create a system that will help improve the culture of online commenting. The project is also intended to make it simpler for readers to post in the comment section of news websites and to interact with each other, as well as journalists.