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.
The coming months are likely going to be at least as active and intense as any of the past year, but most likely they are going to be even more overpowering for those in the media business.
Southern Germany has always been home to innovation, perhaps most famously when it comes to automobiles. Südkurier Medienhaus in Constance continues that tradition in its online marketing services for area businesses. The mid-sized regional publishing company is now starting to “spread the love” by marketing one of its platforms to other publishers.
The Washington Post formally opened its new headquarters yesterday, featuring an advanced 24/7 newsroom, where tech and journalists will work seamlessly together.