Top names in leadership team for aggregated news app UPDAY as it is released in Germany and Poland.Top names in leadership team for aggregated news app UPDAY as it is released in Germany and Poland.
Dushyant Khare, Head – Strategic Partnerships, South East Asia & India, Google, India, highlights the growing population of smartphone users. Some use only their mobile to access the Internet, and the more affluent people use multiple gadgets for browsing the Internet. However, the number of mobile users are rising rapidly.
News UK, the London-based operating company of News Corp, and home to The Times, The Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sun and The Sun on Sunday newspapers, has confirmed key leadership changes, including the return of Rebekah Brooks as Chief Executive Officer.
The consumer electronics group and Europe’s leading digital publisher announced this week they would collaborate to develop new media services, exclusively for European consumers.
Mark Porter, one of the world’s top editorial designers, will be at the International Newsroom Summit in Hamburg on 5 October to lead a panel discussion on designing for digital news. In this interview, he highlights how real editorial design can give publishers a competitive edge in their competition with Google, Apple and Facebook.
Marcelo Rech, President of the World Editors Forum says it is time for editors and newsrooms to shake journalism out of its lethargy, reassume control of the news agenda and lay down new standards for information.
Patrick Daniel, Editor-In-Chief, English and Malay Newspapers Division, SPH Ltd, Singapore, highlights the major challengs to newspapers.
With charges of terrorism levelled at journalists, regular court cases and police raids against media houses, the Turkish state is stepping up its attacks and intimidation of the press as snap elections scheduled for November approach.
Virtual reality journalism is with us to stay, and will become even more realistic and immersive as technology improves. The AP’s standard’s editor, Tom Kent, looks at the ethical challenges.
Data, engagement, personalisation, targeting – all topics that will sure to be intensively discussed, dissected and presented during World Publishing Expo. But it all starts with data and the right data. In this guest post, Petteri Vainikka of Cxense talks about issues surrounding first- and third-party data.
Jeff Bezos’ influence on innovation at The Washington Post continues to unfold, and mobile is no exception. The Post was one of the first publishers to release an app for the Apple Watch in April and in July it unveiled an entire new iOS app to attract new audiences. As the director of mobile products at The Post, Julia Beizer is responsible for keeping the paper at the forefront of mobile innovation.
The ability to watch someone being murdered on social media is unfortunately not new. We have ISIS to thank for that. But did this week’s game-like video, filmed down the barrel of a gun, mark a new moment in our relationship with, and acceptance of what is shared on social media?