Large and mid-sized media companies face the same need to supplement their core activity with additional growth drivers. At the World News Media Congress in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, the session titled “Can mainstream media buy its way to growth?” looked at different strategies for growth that do not require the spending power of a big tech company or an investment fund.
Finding a way to monetise Millennials remains a big challenge for the media industry despite a great deal of research on their habits and attitudes, said panelists Monday at the 22nd World Editors Forum and 25th World Advertising Forum in Washington, D.C.
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In this 2015 edition of Trends in Newsrooms, we highlight some of the exciting digital developments that have brought a new dimension to news content and delivery: from chat apps to analytics, to automation and drone journalism.
Three legacy media publishers took the stage at the World News Media Congress in Washington, D.C., Monday to discuss how their companies have managed to grow as they have faced digital transformations.
As long as technology companies such as Facebook and Twitter exist, publishers will have to navigate relationships with them. This theme pervaded a panel Monday at the 67th World News Media Congress in which industry thought leaders discussed how publishers might better be able to ensure success in a changing media environment.
Safety and the dangers facing journalists worldwide were the dominant themes on the opening day of the 67th World News Media Congress, currently underway in Washington D.C.
“For the first time this century, global newspaper circulation revenues are larger than newspaper advertising revenues,” said Larry Kilman, Secretary General of WAN-IFRA, citing information from the annual World Press Trends survey released Monday by WAN-IFRA.
The Washington Post’s Tehran bureau chief Jason Rezaian has been jailed for more than 10 months Iran, where he is being tried on espionage charges before the country’s Revolutionary Courts. The Post’s Executive Editor Marty Baron used his appearance at the opening of the World News Media Congress in Washington DC to call on the industry to petition for Rezaian’s release, as Julie Posetti reports.
Executive Editor of The Washington Post Marty Baron has told the World News Media Congress in DC that editors are essential. “They’re our quality control. It’s a huge mistake to think we don’t need editors. People remember our mistakes a lot longer than our successes,” he said to Maria Ressa in an on stage interview during the Congress’ opening session.
The Golden Pen of Freedom – an annual international award issued by WAN-IFRA since 1961 to recognise outstanding action on press freedom – has been issued collectively to the world’s fallen journalists during a ceremony in Washington DC.According to UNESCO, 33 journalists have been assassinated so far in 2015. In issuing the award, WAN-IFRA is calling on the news industry to engage with the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity to better protect the lives of journalists. It is also calling on the world’s governments to take urgent action to end impunity for the killers of journalists. Incoming chair of the World Editors Forum, former war correspondent and Brazilian editor Marcelo Rech, accepted the award during the Opening Ceremony of the World News Media Congress today. The words that follow are his.
The Golden Pen of Freedom – an annual international award issued by WAN-IFRA since 1961 to recognise outstanding action on press freedom – has been issued collectively to the world’s fallen journalists during a ceremony in Washington DC.
According to UNESCO, 33 journalists have been assassinated so far in 2015. In issuing the award, WAN-IFRA is calling on the news industry to engage with the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity to better protect the lives of journalists. It is also calling on the world’s governments to take urgent action to end impunity for the killers of journalists. Incoming chair of the World Editors Forum, former war correspondent and Brazilian editor Marcelo Rech, accepted the award during the Opening Ceremony of the World News Media Congress today. The words that follow are his.
An all-American panel of local-media standouts described how their companies are embracing a variety of innovative efforts in order to meet the demands of today’s audiences and ensure their own financial futures.