Frédérique Lancien from L’Équipe, France, shares different storytelling formats that have worked for sports journalism. No big player in the French market was specialized in sports e-commerce: a challenge for L’Équipe’s strategy for the upcoming 3 years #DML15
WAN-IFRA President Tomas Brunegård delivered a wide-ranging presentation on digital media, discussing topics as diverse as press freedom, the digital-print divide and product development cycles.
“The media industry is going through transformation, and while newspapers will survive, dailies will have to take a much closer look at costs,” said Kurt Kribitz, Managing Director, Styria Print Group, Austria, during WAN-IFRA’s World Printers Forum conference in Hamburg earlier this month.
The trajectory of transformation within our industry is without a doubt trending upward. And it’s not isolated to North America and Europe – it’s increasingly pervasive. Starting tomorrow, at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media LATAM 2015 conference, the spotlight will turn to Mexico and other countries in the region.
The days of “one size fits all” are long gone. You have to deal with each channel, each target group and each reader individually. You have to deliver content that has been perfectly tailored. Now is the time to exploit the diversity of your target markets intelligently and attract young, influential and good customers.
Editor’s Note: Earlier this month, a shooting took place at the offices the The Post, one of Zambia’s leading newspapers. No one was hurt but the event came as a dark reminder of the dangers facing the journalism profession. Last year, 61 journalists were killed for doing their job yet overall, less than one in ten of cases has resulted in a conviction. November 2nd is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists; the Editor’s Weblog will be featuring reports and special blogs to mark the event. Below is a letter from Joan Chirwa, Managing Editor of The Post in Zambia, written in response to the shooting.
Monday, November 2, in just over a fortnight’s time, is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. It offers an opportunity to help focus attention, through editorial coverage and other initiatives, on the fact that less than one in 10 crimes against journalists are ever successfully prosecuted.
“Innovation should be market driven, not technology driven,” says Thomas Drensek, General Manager Axel Springer Print Management in Germany, in discussing one of the lessons he learned when he and Bild Editor-in-Chief Kai Diekmann made an extended study of start-ups in Silicon Valley during a stay in California.
There are many startup accelerators, but the next media accelerator is the only one with wide-ranging support and investment from the German news media industry. During our Expo in Hamburg, we popped round the corner to say hello.
The European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the Safe-Harbour data transfer agreement signed in 2000 between the US and EU is invalid.
While many news innovations concern ways to put journalism in your pocket, NewsBox is dramatically different: It aims to transport you into the story.
Imagine a sensor-equipped, LED floor that can give you instructions, monitor what you do in response, and then direct magazine content to your phone based on your performance. That’s what Lars Høeg and Mads Møller are putting together right now.