“We cannot survive only with haute couture,” said Gianni Paolucci, President, ASIG at WAN-IFRA Italia 17-18 June in Bologna. And by ‘haute couture’, he means print. As print ceases to be a mass media, news publishers have to reorganise and devote more effort to other channels such as web and mobile.
The biggest consideration in print media right now is still how to make digital work for publications. Lisa MacLeod successfully took the Financial Times through this process. She speaks to Peta Krost Maunder about the little steps towards successful integration.
In a final judgement likely to influence the way publishers view and manage online comments, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case of Delfi AS v. Estonia, on Tuesday 16th June, that the Estonian online news portal was liable for defamatory online comments made by users.
As Apple inevitably announces its entry into the mobile news app space, the proposed revenue deal for publishers is on par with what Facebook has announced with Instant Articles. From a user perspective, however, Apple has a potentially compelling USP: its stance on protecting customers’ data privacy.
e-Paper is back in the news thanks to long-time fan and Axel Springer CEO, Mathias Döpfner. Speaking at the NOAH Internet Conference in Berlin, Bloomberg reported his comment that “electronic paper will look like a piece of paper today”. So how far into the future are we looking?
Alan Rusbridger has just stepped down as editor-in-chief of The Guardian after 20 years at the helm and a record of extraordinary editorial leadership that peaked with the seismic Snowden revelations. Earlier this year, as the search for his replacement was underway in earnest, I interviewed Rusbridger in London . We spoke about an issue critical to the survival of investigative journalism – and one closely tied to his professional legacy – the need to protect confidential sources in the digital age. During the interview, Rusbridger highlighted the mounting costs of secure reporting in the post-Snowden era.
Deeply understanding audience members beyond a number as people and involving them in journalistic coverage is a key part of integrating readers in news, audience experts said during a session at the World Editors Forum in Washington, D.C.
Tuesday at the 25th World Advertising Forum in Washington, D.C., Fred Hurkmans, commercial and marketing director at NewsMaster, Belgium, and Zohar Dayan, co-founder and CEO of Wibbitz, USA, took the stage to talk about efforts to improve the impact of advertising.
Ahead of the U.S. presidential elections in 2016, journalists face tough challenges: How to cover an American political landscape that is only getting more polarized, and how to control their own political bias. A model suggested by Politico could be a useful case study for editors and reporters around the world.
Acts of journalism should be shielded from targeted surveillance, data retention and handover of material connected to confidential sources. That’s a key early finding of a study on the state of journalistic source protection in 121 countries undertaken for UNESCO by the World Editors Forum (within WAN-IFRA). Preliminary outcomes from the research were launched in Washington DC today during the World News Media Congress.
Media companies are aware that they need to transform their organisations, but it often takes an outsider to accelerate the tempo.
An annual survey by the Innovation International Media Consulting Group for the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA)