The rapid spread of online misinformation was voted one of the top 10 trends facing the world in 2014 by members of the World Economic Forum’s Network of Global Agenda Councils. In this third installment in the World Editors Forum blog series on the 2014 Trends in Newsrooms report, Julie Posetti and Craig Silverman report on social media verification trends.
It has been nearly a year since the SFN Report “Paid digital content: The journey begins” was published, so we met with Valérie Arnould, author of the report, for an update on the rapidly evolving paid-content situation.
Former News of the World Editor and Downing Street chief Communications Director Andy Coulson has been sentenced in London today, along with three other former NOTW news editors, charged in conncection with the hacking scandal that engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s News International.
WAN-IFRA is calling on its supporters around the globe to nominate great speakers for our events. We are constantly looking for the hot topics and best practice case studies of online and print publishers. We are especially interested to hear the stories from users, news media players and inspiring outsiders that could help facilitate the transformation of the news publishing industry. If you would like to speak at one of our events, or know of someone who can contribute, we’d like to hear from you.
In this second instalment of The World Editors Forum’s Trends in Newsrooms blog series exploring the top ten industry trends of 2014, Karen Kissane reports on Trend 2: the inexorable rise of mobile news consumption.
The World Young Reader Prizes are awarded annually to innovative news publishers that have devised, in the judges’ opinion, the best project or activity in the past 24 months in one or more of the main areas of young reader development. This year sees four new special categories, and it’s easy to enter!
Mobile personal security apps and devices are enabling journalists to instantly alert human rights groups and their own networks about physical threats of abduction, unlawful arrest and violence. Sydney Pead reports on innovations in journalism safety targeting journalists on the frontline.
The Irish Independent online newspaper has reported that its former owner Tony O’Reilly, the former CEO of Independent News and Media may file for bankruptcy in the Bahamas.
Journalism needs to get “a seat at the table so that free press rights and free speech rights are part of the conversation,” in evolving drone legislation, Matthew Waite, founder of the Drone Journalism Lab told the World Editors Forum.
Speakers at this year’s World Advertising Forum in Turin made it clear that the trends shaping the industry in recent years are still strongly present, there is also a major sense of hope for digital revenues in the form of the tablet.
My primary takeaways from the Congress sessions in Turin: constant innovation (“think like a startup”), collaboration (“why go it alone?”), mobile, mobile, mobile, leveraging technology, and data.
Naspers is preparing to celebrate its centenary in 2015. After being on the brink of bankruptcy several times in its earlier days, the company is now a successful global player, operating print, pay TV and internet services.