“There used to be a very clear wall between editorial and advertising and this wall has crumbled down, and it might have crumbled permanently,” Ebele Wybenga, a journalist and author based in The Netherlands, warned a year ago.
The threat of arrest for journalists covering civil unrest in the US town of Ferguson continues after Getty photographer Scott Olson was taken into custody overnight. According to The Guardian, Olson is believed to have turned down an instruction by police to leave the area. He was back at the scene two hours later, however, according to Poynter.
A story about the controversial EU ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ ruling has done a mysterious disappearing act on The Telegraph’s website, before reappearing a few days later.
Jim Moroney, the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, A. H. Belo Corporation, and also Publisher and Chief Executive Officer The Dallas Morning News, will be a keynote speaker at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Latinoamérica conference in Lima, Peru, on 19-20 September.
“Stories like the NSA Files are exceptional, and this is why they matter. They are stretches. They are creative bursts in a sea of sameness. They are proof of life. They offer hope for the future – and also a hint at what the next generation of digital news products could look like …” Andrew NachisonCan mega-stories generate mega interest? Or are they really just “the editor’s prerogative”, as one critic claims? In the eighth installment of Trends in the Newsroom, Krysten Dawes reports on what makes a good mega-story, why they are relevant, and the potential that they hold.
“Stories like the NSA Files are exceptional, and this is why they matter. They are stretches. They are creative bursts in a sea of sameness. They are proof of life. They offer hope for the future – and also a hint at what the next generation of digital news products could look like …” Andrew Nachison
Can mega-stories generate mega interest? Or are they really just “the editor’s prerogative”, as one critic claims? In the eighth installment of Trends in the Newsroom, Krysten Dawes reports on what makes a good mega-story, why they are relevant, and the potential that they hold.
To bell the cat is to attempt to do something impossible. With his new open sourcing site, Bellingcat, that is what Eliot Higgins says he is going to do, and what’s more, he’s going to try to teach other people to do it, too.
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.