“News publishing is diverging along two very different tracks,” says Kerry J. Northrup, a career journalist and media executive who specialises in prototyping the future of journalism. They are “the editorial services industry and experiential news media. They have different business models, different content models, and two very different newsroom models. That’s the key difference to be looking at in newsrooms going forward.”
“As is common for technology companies, the ‘beta’ concept has permeated our work initiatives,” says Marta Gleich, Executive Editor of Zero Hora and seven other RBS Group newspapers in southern Brazil.
There has been a significant increase in threats to Paris newsrooms following January’s Charlie Hebdo attack, according to the Director General of France’s TV5 Monde. An international Francophone broadcaster, the network is one of the most identifiably vulnerable media groups in the aftermath of the newsroom massacre, in which 12 people were killed. Julie Posetti reports.
Having a solid digital strategy that appropriately incorporates the vast amount of data at their disposal is essential for publishers, but it is also a complex undertaking. “The first step is understanding the critical strategic value of your behavioural data, and not outsourcing its capture, management, and processing to a third party,” says Annika Jimenez, Vice President, Pivotal Data Labs.
Since the financial crisis of 2008/2009, the publishing industry has seen a number of innovations that as of yet have failed to pay off in a big way. But unlike the iPad, paywalls or web-TV, the ongoing industry buzz around big data analytics may signal a true paradigm shift for publishers willing to invest, according to big data specialist Tor Bøe-Lillegraven.
Google’s Senior Director of News and Social Products, Richard Gingras, is pitching for closer ties with legacy news organisations. Google has a complex relationship with publishers but proudly sends 10 billion visits to news websites each month.Delivering a keynote address at the #MediasDemain conference in Paris last week, Gingras called for increased collaboration with publishers: “in sharing of ideas, in providing enabling platforms, in helping improve information architectures.” Here are the edited highlights of his speech.
Google’s Senior Director of News and Social Products, Richard Gingras, is pitching for closer ties with legacy news organisations. Google has a complex relationship with publishers but proudly sends 10 billion visits to news websites each month.
Delivering a keynote address at the #MediasDemain conference in Paris last week, Gingras called for increased collaboration with publishers: “in sharing of ideas, in providing enabling platforms, in helping improve information architectures.” Here are the edited highlights of his speech.
A new UNESCO study underlines the growing threats confronting online journalism, and provides a framework to help build digital safety for journalists. The study identifies 12 key challenges and it recommends that practitioners develop a “threat model” on which to build a personal security plan that covers both digital and physical threats. Julie Posetti reports.
In mid-March, The Economist was among a group of five major global publishers that announced the launch of the Pangaea Alliance, which is described as “a new digital advertising proposition that will allow brands to collectively access a highly influential global audience via the latest programmatic technology.”
Freed from an Egyptian jail on terrorism-related charges, Greste has called for a global ‘gold standard’ to define the relationship between governments and the press, amid an international climate where the so-called ‘war on terror’ is used by governments to justify repression of press freedom.
We have been all about User Generated Content (UGC), but now it’s time to truly connect journalism to devices and shift the discussion to User Generated Data, according to former AP UGC Editor Fergus Bell in this guest post.
Today’s #MediasDemain conference (Towards the media of tomorrow) in Paris, organised by Google-IPWA’s Fund for Digital Innovation of the Press (FINP) and WAN-IFRA, was a chance for news media to gather before a showcase of innovative projects driving change in the industry. Here are the highlights curated by Jake Evans and Julie Posetti.
The New York Times is reporting that several key global publishers may be close to a deal with Facebook on hosted content and a possible revenue share. This could be a pivotal moment for the industry.