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.
Silicon Valley used to have the hippie culture and back then the most popular word was “love.” Now the most popular word is “disruption.”
WAN-IFRA’s 10th Annual Middle East Conference drew more than 250 participants to Dubai, UAE, which once again hosted this key event for news publishers in the region.
In just a few years, Sanoma’s Mobile Development Centre in Budapest has evolved into a centre of excellence for the creation and development of media applications, launching hundreds of apps for the group and its clients in a wide range of industries.
Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, recently gave the 2015 Hays Press-Enterprise lecture at the University of California on journalism’s move from print to digital. Here are 14 highlights from the speech.
While debates about the ethics of User Generated Content (UGC) roll on, it’s time to focus on the next big challenge: leveraging User Generated Data. UGD is an idea being explored by Fergus Bell. In this guest post, he outlines his tips for editors keen to do more with audience data, and highlights the early emerging ethical challenges.
The Apple Watch has brought renewed buzz (and mixed reviews) to the wearables discussion, with news executives watching to see what publishers do with the device. New York Times R&D lab’s Executive Director Matt Boggie looks beyond the release of a single device to the future implications of small screen technology.