After 172 years of male domination behind the editor’s desk, The Economist has appointed Zanny Minton Beddoes its first woman Editor-in-Chief
A new report from Humans Right Watch has documented how independent media in Ethiopia are being increasingly repressed in brutal fashion. The situation has worsened over the past year, despite hopes of improvement in freedom of expression and access to information ahead of this May’s election.
Despite facing terrorism-related charges, the Editor-in-Chief of Turkey’s most-read daily newspaper Zaman says he takes heart from the public response to police raids on media outlets and his own detention. “When readers support their newspapers, when colleagues support each other, only then will journalism survive,” Ekrem Dumanlı told the World Editors Forum.
Interview with Marcelo Rech, Director of Journalism for Brazil’s RBS Group. He also serves as First Vice-President of the Board of the World Editors Forum and Chairman of the WAN-IFRA LatAm Committee.
In 2014, the video game industry grew four times faster than the US economy. As newsrooms find new ways of creating revenue, there is a growing contingent of journalists operating at the intersection of gaming and journalism. Angelique Lu has produced a major interactive feature for WAN-IFRA exploring trends in the gamification of news – Gaming Journalism (click through the link for the full multimedia experience).
The use of drones in US reporting has been given a major boost with the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) striking a research deal with CNN last week. The agreement aims to advance efforts to integrate the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in newsgathering.
Once seen as a path to quick success with advertisers and a sure-fire winner with public-transport commuters, free daily newspapers in Europe have taken a hard hit in the past several years.
USA Today was recently named Mobile Publisher of the Year and Mobile Web Site of the Year by Mobile Marketer. Editor-in-Chief David Callaway told Angelique Lu how they’ve grown the app since it was introduced on app stores 18 months ago. Here, Lu curates the key learning outcomes shared by Callaway.
Interview with Mark Hollands, chief executive of The Newspaper Works, which advocates across a spectrum of commercial and editorial areas on behalf of the news publishing industry in Australia.
The latest edition of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo sold out within a few minutes of newsstands opening in France today. People queued in lines from the early morning to try to get a copy of the magazine, and the print run has been increased to five million copies to keep up with the demand. Ashleigh Tullis reports.
Journalists, religious leaders and human rights activists have gathered at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters one week after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. The event – ‘Journalism After Charlie’ – is focusing on the increasing incidence of violence against journalists and the need to reinforce respect for diversity and freedom of expression. Julie Posetti is there.
Interview with Marc Edge, journalism educator, media critic, and blogger from Vancouver, Canada, who has taught at universities in four countries.