WAN-IFRA has condemned the apparent beheading of US journalist Steven Sotloff by Islamic State (ISIS) militants. “We are appalled by the gruesome murder of Steven Sotloff”, WAN-IFRA Secretary General Larry Kilman said in Paris today.
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has been coming under increasing fire from a group of campaigners seeking to end ‘Page Three’, a feature in British tabloid The Sun which splashes images of topless female models alongside serious news content.
Heralded as the next generation of social media, chat apps BBM, Snapchat, WeChat and WhatsApp are the latest forms of social media to be utilised for content marketing by news agencies. Livi Wilkinson explores the BBC’s chat apps strategy.
WAN-IFRA and the African Media Initiative have teamed up to create a new award to recognise women occupying senior positions in African newsrooms.
“Sapa is little more than a shell”. Prominent South African journalism professor Anton Harber has issued a scathing critique about investment group Sekunjalo’s bid for ailing South African national news agency, Sapa.”It is hard to see how a national agency can be owned by one newspaper company, especially since Sekunjalo has shown little respect for editorial freedom or independence.” Harber told the World Editors Forum.
“As an editor, journalism is only 20 percent of your job,” Jonathan Halls, adjunct professor at George Washington University, has said. So, what does it take to lead a newsroom today? In this tenth installment from our Trends in Newsrooms blog series, we look at how some top editors around the world leading their newsrooms through these challenging times.
Harrowing stories of human suffering are coming out of West Africa as the Ebola crisis continues, but the outbreak is also revealing stark differences between the way Western correspondents and African journalists are able to protect their own health when covering it.
“We want to give our readers something new and exciting all the time,” says Saranga Wijeyarathne, Director of Marketing for Sri Lanka’s Ceylon Newspapers Limited, whose Ceylon Today recently produced the world’s first 4D newspaper experience
“There’s quite a lot of fear in data. There’s fear from the newsrooms that it’s used as a management tool, and then there’s fear from customers about how their information’s being used,” observes Tom Betts, VP of Customer Analytics and Research, at Pearson Professional, which includes the Financial Times. Betts also says FT subscribers “…are pretty terrified of algorithms taking over, and dictating what they read.”
The Financial Times stands out as a global case study in changing news media consumption, as the UK market joins the US in crossing the mobile-desktop threshhold. Around sixty percent of the FT’s online subscriber readership now comes via a mobile device, and it is being driven by increases in digital consumption at weekends, and outside core working hours.
The journalists’ collective seeking to buy a group of French daily newspapers expects to reach its initial crowdfunding goal by the end of the week.But one of the journalists behind the Nice Matin campaign has told the World Editors Forum that they will continue their fundraising efforts beyond that goal.
The journalists’ collective seeking to buy a group of French daily newspapers expects to reach its initial crowdfunding goal by the end of the week.
But one of the journalists behind the Nice Matin campaign has told the World Editors Forum that they will continue their fundraising efforts beyond that goal.
Press guidelines for appropriate coverage of suicide stories have been in place for a long time, but are they actually being followed?c