“The majority [of users] of ad blockers are truly engaged, and they want to improve the site. They don’t want to block the site, but they are trying to make us understand why they are doing it,” says VG’s Elnaz Esmailzadeh.
The Week UK recently launched ‘The WeekDay’, becoming one of the first publishers to deliver a news app with videos created primarily for mobile use. The content is created with a mobile audience in mind, and later adapted for distribution on social media.
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) is on the lookout for smart innovators for its 2016-2017 fellowships, open to US citizens and foreign journalists.
‘Moving Stories’, a report on international media coverage of migration in 2015, concludes that ‘journalists often fail to tell the full story and routinely fall into propaganda traps laid by politicians’.
A range of social media editors, audience development directors, and experts gave guest poster Liam Corcoran their predictions on what publishers should expect in 2016.
Several UK Internet service providers are signalling their interest in blocking advertising across their network. Despite the hype, this is a non-starter. A new EU regulation will make this impossible, and ISPs will not be able to fudge the issue by giving users an opt-in, writes Dr Johnny Ryan, Head of Ecosystem, PageFair in this blog post.
HOME BUSINESS DIGITAL MEDIA EDITORIAL INCUBATOR PRESS FREEDOM MEDIA POLICY What’s the latest on The Economist’s Chinese news app? It was the Economist’s first venture into a non-English product in its 172-year history. Launched in April, the Global Business Review (GBR) is a bilingual Chinese and English mobile news app that publishes 30 articles a month. Now more than half a year into it, how are they doing in the land notorious for censorship?
In a still print-centric Indian market, HT Media, the publisher of the Hindustan Times, Hindi Hindustan and Mint, is currently undertaking a major transformation in the way it produces and distributes its content across platforms, animated by the firm belief that digital practices can drive improvements in its journalism, reshape its relationship with its audiences, and secure its future.
It is just 20 months since the Dutch startup first launched its journalism micropayment system in The Netherlands and now it plans to enter the US market with an English-language version. Users will be able to start using the beta version early 2016, Blendle’s Head of International Duco van Lanschot said in New York on Wednesday.
Even with the climate summit, adaptation has been a relatively underreported issue. But as risks from climate change grow, the story of how societies get ready – or not — is going to be more and more important. We journalists have to be ready to cover it.
Local media companies cannot afford not to invest in data solutions that enable them to hyper-target ads on their – and other people’s – sites, says guest poster Steve Gray. Fortunately, he says, those solutions are becoming viable even for small companies.
Innovators gathered in Paris on Monday for the seventh “New Practices of Journalism” conference at the Paris Institute of Political Sciences Journalism School. Here are three observations from the day’s discussions.