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.
With rapid advances in Virtual Reality (VR) and video technology, and a high level of experimentation taking place in newsrooms, there is a hunger for information on what’s working and what’s not. At the news:rewired conference in London on Wednesday, Ben Kreimer, Journalism Technologist at Buzzfeed’s Open Lab; Sarah Jones, VR storyteller and educator; and Parminder Bahra, EMEA Executive Producer for the Wall Street Journal shared the lessons they have learned.
Distributed media company NowThis Media, which produces short form news videos, stopped publishing content on their homepage a year ago, yet grew its audience to about 1,2 billion monthly views with an impressive 79% retention rate. Ashish Patel, Vice President of Social for NowThis tells us about their innovative strategy.
Eyewitnesses armed with smartphones have changed the news gathering process dramatically. How fast and how well news organizations work with these citizen journalists is becoming a competitive edge.
A teacher will be among the winners of this year’s World Young Reader Prizes, the annual awards for excellence in youth engagement and news literacy from WAN-IFRA, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers.
Must-read for VR-innovators: a new report released by the Knight Foundation and USA Today Network on Sunday says that 2016 will be a decisive year for VR storytelling. Once the novelty wears off, will the hype take off or die down?
“The folks at Aftenposten, Norway, are among the most innovative teams in any newsroom,” writes Mario García in the foreward to our recently published “Best Practice in Digital Media” report, which profiles all the winners of WAN-IFRA World Digital Media Awards.
It’s easy to let cynicism creep into the most upbeat of media minds residing within the intensely competitive newspaper and news media landscape that is London today. Kevin Beatty, CEO of dmg media, publishers of the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Mail Plus, Metro and Elite Daily, will have none of that, thank you.