Reading a newspaper can greatly benefit a prison inmate, even more so than a book, argues former prisoner Chandra Bozelko in a compelling essay appearing in Quartz, the online news outlet of Atlantic Media.
Twenty-one Danish boys and girls are spending this week in a journalism boot camp as part of a project that aims to teach them how to be reporters, writes Aralynn McMane, WAN-IFRA’s Executive Director of Youth Engagement and News Literacy.
Japanese newspaper company Nikkei’s announcement on 23 July that it would purchase the Financial Times Group, surprised everyone in the media world, above all the Japanese. In this guest blog, Ginko Kobayashi, a London-based journalist, looks at the reaction in Japan.
Back in 2013 we visited the new BuzzFeed U.K. team – just three people in a co-working space in White Bear Yard in Clerkenwell, London. Now, as their U.K. newsroom team grows to more than 50 editorial staff, we look back for the secrets to their success.
Leading from the top, forging alliances, flagging sexist practices, and providing training to help female journalists tackle ‘cybermisogyny’ are important steps being undertaken globally in an effort to achieve real progress in the struggle for gender equality and women’s empowerment in newsrooms, reports Julie Posetti.
The next media accelerator (nma.vc) does exactly what you might expect: It seeks to accelerate growth in new media startups. We got on the phone to Hamburg to understand what makes them unique.
“We very much started from a completely blank page because there weren’t any other news organisations doing this stuff at the time. We didn’t have anything to compare ourselves against or to see what was working elsewhere or not working and adapt accordingly,” said Trushar Barot, Mobile Editor at BBC World Service, on the BBC’s integration of WhatsApp as a new method of reporting.
On 28 July the Italian Chamber of Deputies introduced a Declaration of Internet Rights, making Italy the first European country to produce such a document.
Listen up: there is a renaissance that needs your attention. Julie Posetti and Siobhan McHugh unpack the revival of interest in audio storytelling in this excerpt from our recently published “Trends in Newsrooms 2015” report.
So much for all the speculation of “is the FT really up for sale?” or “Axel Springer set to purchase the FT” – Pearson announced today that it will sell the FT Group to Japanese publisher Nikkei Inc. for £844 million ($1.3 billion), bringing together two seemingly strong financial news companies from Europe and Asia.
The increasing use and sophistication of analytical programmes to help editors understand where the audience is, what it wants to consume and when and what it responds to, is complemented by the arrival of the ‘growth team’ in newsrooms. But numbers mean nothing without insight. Federica Cherubini explains.
Each year we honor and share the most innovative case studies from news organisations that are successfully connecting with young readers. There are lessons to be drawn from this year’s winners writes Aralynn McMane, WAN-IFRA’s Executive Director of Youth Engagement and News Literacy.