In a bid to attract a younger audience and tailor to their readership, Gannett, one of the U.S’ largest newspaper publishers is shifting its focus to the broadcast and digital realm.
As a “challenging advertising environment,” and declining circulation revenue sting Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp in its first year as a standalone company, idealistic entrepreneurs are snapping at its heels.
The New York Times is experimenting with cutting edge 21st digital storytelling to explore the legacies of The Great War, which began in earnest 100 year ago this week. And it’s learning valuable lessons about contemporary journalism in the process.
Former Executive Editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson has thoughtfully tackled major issues in contemporary journalism and reflected on her controversial tenure at The Times in a keynote address to the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in Montreal overnight. University of Wollongong journalism academic Shawn Burns reports from the conference for the World Editors Forum.
To HBO personality, John Oliver, native advertising in news is akin to baking ads into content “…like chocolate chips into a cookie. Except it’s actually more like (baking) raisins into a cookie because nobody f…ing wants them there.” But increasingly these “raisins” are viewed as an essential ingredient in the journalism business model recipe.
The high profile and unexpected departure of two of the world’s top women editors – Jill Abramson, Executive Editor of The New York Times, and Natalie Nougayrede, Editor-in-Chief of France’s Le Monde – within 24 hours earlier this year has sharpened the focus on the success and failures of gender equity management in newsrooms worldwide. Julie Posetti reports on the 6th trend in our Trends in Newsrooms series: the rise (and fall) of women editors.
Debate continues over the lowering of publication standards within mainstream media newsrooms, as coverage of the MH17 catastrophe and the war in Gaza are illustrated by shockingly graphic images. Is the creeping influence of social media partly to blame for the shift? And what are the potential impacts? World Editors Forum and WAN-IFRA Research Fellow Julie Posetti considers the issues.
“I do not think journalists take their basic mobile and data security seriously enough,” Director of the International News Safety Institute, Hannah Storm, told the World Editors Forum: “It seems to be over the last six months there has been a greater number or almost a greater excuse for people to say ‘Let’s target the journalist,’” she said. So, how can journalists better protect themselves from cyber attack? Lucy Dean and Krysten Dawes report.
Marcos Foglia is Argentina’s digital whizz-kid at Artear, Clarín’s TV enterprise, and he has news for the media industry: “Traditional companies have to give power to the digital arena.” If they don’t do so now, he warns, it will be very difficult later.
“You barely think of video as a separate thing anymore, it’s just a way of telling a story,” incoming Editor-in-Chief of TheGuardian.com, Janine Gibson told the World Editors Forum. Douglas Grant reports on the rise of online video news and the challenges of making it profitable in this sixth instalment in our Trends in Newsrooms series.
Mobile has changed how, when, where, and why we access content. If our development process neglects this paradigm shift, then our customers will make their voice heard in the worst way. UX design seeks to fix this, but to call it a new practice all together is disingenuous. My definition of UX doesn’t rest at the claim that mobile is different than desktop, instead I place importance on finding out when those differences matter.
Digital megastories are heading back to the future with a growing trend in interactive online reports inspired by historical data. Sydney Pead reports on the most recent retrospective stories and upcoming collaborations that will explore the past.