Are third party platforms the new publishers and does that signal the end of journalism? In an interview with the World Editors Forum, Jeff Jarvis tells how publishers should be working with, not against, platforms.
Established in October 2013, Shanghai United Media Group (SUMG) was formed through the merger of Shanghai’s two main newspaper groups –Jiefang Daily Group and Wenhui-Xinmin United Press Group – in a bid to accelerate media reform and develop multimedia platforms to drive growth. Two years and a few months down the road, SUMG’s Chairman and President, Qiu Xin, openly discusses with WAN-IFRA’s Gilles Demptos the transformations that have been achieved so far and the challenges that remain ahead.
Another breaking news event, another mass misattribution of viral videos – even by leading global media organisations, like CNN and The Guardian. The World Editors Forum spoke to David Clinch, Global News Editor of social news agency Storyful about the failing verification of user-generated content.
Image by Chris Karaba, staff photographer at Luxemburger Wort “They killed two of my friends in 2013. Then they were after me. I had already received death threats by phone from a private number. I was making a reportage with my camera man and driver when they shot my car in Baghdad. Immediately, I called my mother, who […]
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Media Honeypot … sounds like a hip, media startup. In fact, the event for matching startups with media companies is vying to become a melting pot for the media startup scene.
The fragmentation of media introduced by digital technology and now amplified by powerful social platforms comes with a risk to journalism and democracy, warns Ricardo Gandour, director of Brazil’s Estado media group, which includes the 141-year old flagship daily newspaper, O Estado de S.Paulo.
On Tuesday after three explosions shook Brussels, journalists wanting an eyewitness account turned to Periscope in search of a live stream of events, captured on mobile phones by people at the airport and at the affected train station. It was exactly the type of situation where Periscope shows its value according to its 28-year old co-founder, Kayvon Beykpour, who was in Paris last week to talk to students.
On 27 January, Italian news outlet Corriere della Sera introduced a paid access to its website, an uncommon trend in Italian media.
Has the media has been living up to ethical standards in their migration coverage? This was the question posed for the Thematic Debate on Media and Migration organised by the International Program for the Development of Communication (IPDC) at UNESCO in Paris on Friday.
Two years ago, a decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union created the “Right to be Forgotten.” The report analyses the judgment and examines its extraterritorial implementation.
Yes, it’s good to have a billionaire owner with patience, but it’s even better to have a billionaire owner with a vision. And the vision of Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos is that a news organization has to make its work available free, everywhere. James Breiner, a Spanish digital media consultant reports on their strategy.