Back in 2013 we visited the new BuzzFeed U.K. team – just three people in a co-working space in White Bear Yard in Clerkenwell, London. Now, as their U.K. newsroom team grows to more than 50 editorial staff, we look back for the secrets to their success.
Leading from the top, forging alliances, flagging sexist practices, and providing training to help female journalists tackle ‘cybermisogyny’ are important steps being undertaken globally in an effort to achieve real progress in the struggle for gender equality and women’s empowerment in newsrooms, reports Julie Posetti.
The next media accelerator (nma.vc) does exactly what you might expect: It seeks to accelerate growth in new media startups. We got on the phone to Hamburg to understand what makes them unique.
“We very much started from a completely blank page because there weren’t any other news organisations doing this stuff at the time. We didn’t have anything to compare ourselves against or to see what was working elsewhere or not working and adapt accordingly,” said Trushar Barot, Mobile Editor at BBC World Service, on the BBC’s integration of WhatsApp as a new method of reporting.
On 28 July the Italian Chamber of Deputies introduced a Declaration of Internet Rights, making Italy the first European country to produce such a document.
Listen up: there is a renaissance that needs your attention. Julie Posetti and Siobhan McHugh unpack the revival of interest in audio storytelling in this excerpt from our recently published “Trends in Newsrooms 2015” report.
So much for all the speculation of “is the FT really up for sale?” or “Axel Springer set to purchase the FT” – Pearson announced today that it will sell the FT Group to Japanese publisher Nikkei Inc. for £844 million ($1.3 billion), bringing together two seemingly strong financial news companies from Europe and Asia.
The increasing use and sophistication of analytical programmes to help editors understand where the audience is, what it wants to consume and when and what it responds to, is complemented by the arrival of the ‘growth team’ in newsrooms. But numbers mean nothing without insight. Federica Cherubini explains.
Each year we honor and share the most innovative case studies from news organisations that are successfully connecting with young readers. There are lessons to be drawn from this year’s winners writes Aralynn McMane, WAN-IFRA’s Executive Director of Youth Engagement and News Literacy.
Where does the world’s love-hate relationship with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drone technology really lie? Rebecca Jayne Pattison reports from a recent mash-up of experts.Where does the world’s love-hate relationship with UAVs and drone technology really lie?
Where does the world’s love-hate relationship with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drone technology really lie? Rebecca Jayne Pattison reports from a recent mash-up of experts.
Where does the world’s love-hate relationship with UAVs and drone technology really lie?
On July 5, 1989, a pilot episode of a new sitcom called The Seinfeld Chronicles aired on NBC. It received good, but not great, ratings for the time, coming in second on the night overall. The network debated whether or not to purchase more episodes; during testing, audiences did not understand this program’s format or connect with its characters, and network executives’ previous experiences told them it would skew to a small, urban audience and never reach national popularity. Matt Boggie, Executive Director of The New York Times Company’s Research and Development Lab, tells the story.
Six months after the deadly attack on the Paris newsroom of Charlie Hebdo, editors, journalists and publishers face significant challenges around safety, the publishing of satirical cartoons and the reporting of religion. Alexandra Waldhorn and Julie Posetti consider the longer term ethical, editorial and managerial responses in this the fourth excerpt from the 2015 Trends in Newsrooms report.