In world that has become flat and devoid of privacy, we should at the very least ensure the integrity of the information we consume, writes Calcalist publisher Yoel Esteron.
In summer 2015, a much-criticized decision by Europe’s human rights court left online portals anxious about what comments they allowed on their sites. Now, the same court has reversed that decision in a lawsuit lodged by two Hungarian websites. That means less stress for online media argue Marius Dragomir and Borbala Toth in this guest post.
In this guest post, Jan Kasten, Chief Technology Officer at ppi Media, offers five compelling reasons for entering into online print, an area of print production with a potential business volume of 6 billion euros.
And so the Great Canadian Newspaper Roll-up has begun.This was predictable once the Competition Bureau rubber-stamped Postmedia Network’s $316-million takeover of Sun Media last year. As a result, Postmedia now publishes 37.4 per cent of Canadian daily newspaper circulation, according to my calculations.
And so the Great Canadian Newspaper Roll-up has begun.
This was predictable once the Competition Bureau rubber-stamped Postmedia Network’s $316-million takeover of Sun Media last year. As a result, Postmedia now publishes 37.4 per cent of Canadian daily newspaper circulation, according to my calculations.
At least 71 media professionals were killed on the job last year, but their stories weren’t always reported. High-profile cases usually do get a lot of media attention, but the vast majority of killings involve local journalists. A group of Pakistani editors found a unique way to keep journalists safe by using media attention. Zaffar Abbas, Editor of Dawn newspaper, tells us more.
Journalists, media organisations, governments and the international community need to collaborate in bringing to justice the actors of crimes against journalists, according to BBC Presenter Zeinab Badawi, who spoke to the World Editors Forum, at UNESCO’s Safety of Media Professionals conference in Paris, last Friday.
In 2013 when Styria Media Group in Austria formed its new digital business, styria digital one, Managing Director Alexis Johann had a clear mandate: create innovative products and make them pay.
WELT KOMPAKT’s iOS app was designed as an entirely new product, created purely for mobile and enjoying massive success among a user group that does not buy print.
One of the most established publications in the world of constructive journalism is now in the hands of co-owners. The £263,000 investment raised by the “community share offer,” is enabling Positive News to roll out a new business model. Acting Editor Danielle Batist tells us more.
“I’ve been in the business for 50 years, and I’ve seen more change in the last three than in any other time. And the biggest difference is data.” That’s what Phillip Crawley, CEO of The Globe and Mail, Canada’s leading national newspaper, told Politico this past summer.
The search for concrete ways to improve the safety of journalists and end impunity in the crimes against media professionals will be the focus of a UNESCO conference in Paris this Friday, 5 February, organised in partnership the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and several other representative media organisations.
Axel Springer, one of the largest European publishers known for fiercely defending copyright and publisher revenue, has never shied away from criticizing technology companies’ practices. It now established an award for innovation, honoring its first recipient Mark Zuckerberg on 25 February in Berlin, Germany.