On the 50th anniversary of its foundation, Kompas Gramedia – which remains the undisputed leading national daily in Indonesia – has clinched WAN-IFRA’s top World Young Reader Prize for 2015 for its multimedia approach to reaching young people and helping them become more active in society.
A fleet of Parrot drones performing synchronised acrobatics, martial arts jugglers filmed with the latest slo-mo cameras, two guys playing Guitar Hero in front of the biggest and meanest-looking mobile sound rig you ever saw. Yep, it must be IFA15 in Berlin. But what is the relevance to the news industry?
Ahead of a German court ruling and European regulation changes that could significantly redefine Google’s relationship with newspapers, Italian newspaper La Stampa interviewed Axel Springer Executive Vice President Christoph Keese. The piece revealed the German publishing house’s views on newspapers, search engines and their European future.
Trying to keep a newsroom up to speed and meet a seemingly never-ending series of challenges while simultaneously cutting costs has become the lot of the modern newsroom leader. Among the newsrooms doing an impressive job of meeting today’s demands is Switzerland’s 24heures, led by Editor-in-Chief Thierry Meyer.
News 24, the largest South African digital news operation, announced this week that it is switching off its comment function to cut often damaging input from readers.
Bild, Germany’s biggest tabloid newspaper, removed all photographs from its print publication and website on Tuesday in protest against complaints about their decision to publish images of the Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi, who washed up on a Turkish beach last week.
The use of anti-ad-blockers to fix the ad-blocking problem is leading to an arms race that’s not going to make publishers wealthier. Schibsted Mobile in Sweden took an initial pre-emptive action six months ago to address the core of the issue: preserving the user’s mobile experience.
Guest post by John Einar Sandvand, Chief Communications Officer at Schibsted Tech Polska.This is the story of how one small hack day project in Krakow led to much faster mobile experiences for more than two million Norwegians.
Guest post by John Einar Sandvand, Chief Communications Officer at Schibsted Tech Polska.
This is the story of how one small hack day project in Krakow led to much faster mobile experiences for more than two million Norwegians.
2016 will by all accounts be the year virtual reality breaks mass-market. And it’s not just about gaming anymore. We recently visited Dutch virtual reality production start-up Purple Pill VR, who are ahead of the curve. Spotting a lack of good video content in VR, the two co-founders have built a workflow and camera system to produce just that.
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum welcome the release of VICE News reporters Jake Hanrahan and Philip Pendlebury, but calls on the authorities to ensure their Turkish colleague Mohammed Ismael Rasool is immediately released and the charges against him are dropped
Within hours of their release on Wednesday, disturbing photographs of the body of 3-year old Syrian toddler, Aylan Kurdi, washed up on a beach near the resort town of Bodrum, had become a shareable symbol of the refugee tragedy unfolding in Europe.
Managing incoming content, be it text, video or photographs, can be tough without smart filters and intelligent tagging that will allow you to find information quickly, when you need it. If you need unbiased pointers to the latest software and systems that can make your newsroom work more effectively, then this session at the International Newsroom Summit in Hamburg on October 5 is for you.