Inspired by a community news project and desire to turn the Harry Potter ‘Daily Prophet’ newspaper into a reality, a collaboration between local communities, academic partners and a conductive print company created and developed newsprint prototypes. The results might just give print a new lease on life writes Rebecca Jayne Pattison.
There’s significant momentum for publishers toward increasing the production of video content, on account of both the strength of video as a medium for storytelling and high video CPMs as advertisers begin to move their TV spends online. An increase in video content across the board, of course, means that it’s all the more important that we have a sense of which parts of our audience we can hope to reach with video. Josh Schwartz, chief data scientist at Chartbeat looks at the state of online audiences and their consumption of video.
Don Podesta, manager and editor at the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) believes that governments are increasingly using soft censorship, and evermore sophisticated economic pressures and forms of intimidation, to silence critical reporting and reward positive coverage. He spoke to Mariona Sanz about some of his concerns regarding the development of one of the least acknowledged, but arguably most pernicious forms of modern censorship.
There is a growing movement to combine two seemingly incompatible industries: gaming and the news. The gamification of news – where video game technology and practises are used in conjunction with traditional journalism methods – is the first trend identified in our 2015 Trends in Newsrooms report. Angelique Lu tells why news games are attracting worldwide interest.
Last week the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found an Estonian news portal, Delfi, liable for comments posted by users on its online site. Editors Weblog spoke to Professor Dirk Voorhoof about the judgement and its implications for publishers.
“We cannot survive only with haute couture,” said Gianni Paolucci, President, ASIG at WAN-IFRA Italia 17-18 June in Bologna. And by ‘haute couture’, he means print. As print ceases to be a mass media, news publishers have to reorganise and devote more effort to other channels such as web and mobile.
The biggest consideration in print media right now is still how to make digital work for publications. Lisa MacLeod successfully took the Financial Times through this process. She speaks to Peta Krost Maunder about the little steps towards successful integration.
In a final judgement likely to influence the way publishers view and manage online comments, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case of Delfi AS v. Estonia, on Tuesday 16th June, that the Estonian online news portal was liable for defamatory online comments made by users.
As Apple inevitably announces its entry into the mobile news app space, the proposed revenue deal for publishers is on par with what Facebook has announced with Instant Articles. From a user perspective, however, Apple has a potentially compelling USP: its stance on protecting customers’ data privacy.
e-Paper is back in the news thanks to long-time fan and Axel Springer CEO, Mathias Döpfner. Speaking at the NOAH Internet Conference in Berlin, Bloomberg reported his comment that “electronic paper will look like a piece of paper today”. So how far into the future are we looking?
Alan Rusbridger has just stepped down as editor-in-chief of The Guardian after 20 years at the helm and a record of extraordinary editorial leadership that peaked with the seismic Snowden revelations. Earlier this year, as the search for his replacement was underway in earnest, I interviewed Rusbridger in London . We spoke about an issue critical to the survival of investigative journalism – and one closely tied to his professional legacy – the need to protect confidential sources in the digital age. During the interview, Rusbridger highlighted the mounting costs of secure reporting in the post-Snowden era.
Deeply understanding audience members beyond a number as people and involving them in journalistic coverage is a key part of integrating readers in news, audience experts said during a session at the World Editors Forum in Washington, D.C.