The need to urgently shield investigative journalism in the post-Snowden era is the burning issue in newsrooms globally, according to the World Editors Forum Trends in Newsrooms 2014 report, launched in Italy, today.
Newspapers are currently in a rebuilding stage, block by block, says U.S.-based media analyst Ken Doctor, adding: “I call this the age of crossover.” While only 5 to 10 percent of publishers’ income currently comes from digital, today is about new ideas and new models, which is part of the long-term transition the industry is going through.
The Media Innovation Hub of the 66th annual World Newspaper Conference was held Monday evening at the NH Lingotto Hotel.
As newspaper publishers continue to make the transition from print-only businesses to multiplatform ones, they must keep their consumers at the centre of their efforts, advise speakers during the “Innovation: From idea to impact” session of the World Newspaper Congress in Torino, Italy.
Print and digital combined are increasing audiences for newspapers globally, but digital revenues are not keeping pace, posing a risk for newspaper businesses and the societies they serve, the annual World Press Trends survey released Monday by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) reveals.
The incoming Editor-in-Chief of Guardian.com, Janine Gibson, says that investigative journalism may need to be moved ‘off shore’ to avoid the threat to sources and reporters posed by state surveillance, in the post-Snowden era. “We will have to move to the place where it’s easier to report – where there are less restrictions”, Gibson told the World Newspaper Congress and the World Editors Forum in Torino, Italy, today.
Here are five takeaways from the presentation of Claudio Paolillo, Chairman, Press Freedom and Information Committee, Inter-American Press Association, Uruguay, during a session titled “National security, liberty, regulation and the role of a free press in the digital age” on the first day of WAN-IFRA’s World Newspaper Congress / World Editors Forum in Torino, Italy.
Here are five takeaways from the presentation of Gary Pruitt, President and CEO of the Associated Press, during a session titled “National security, liberty, regulation and the role of a free press in the digital age” on the first day of WAN-IFRA’s World Newspaper Congress / World Editors Forum in Torino, Italy.
“This Golden Pen is more important than food, medicine and water. It materializes the support and shows that he is not forgotten. That he is one of us. That an attack on one journalist is an attack on us all and that jailing a journalist is a crime against humanity,” Swedish journalist Martin Schibbye said, accepting the 2014 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), on behalf of imprisoned Ethiopian publisher, journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega.
The WAN-IFRA Press Freedom Round Table is held Sunday in Torino, Italy, where top media executives give their insight on an important question: “Is press freedom in democratic countries a trend in decline?”
UNESCO’s new youth-engagement initiative has kicked off with a call for more youth representation in mainstream media. Sydney Pead reports.
“Long-term structural declines in print circulation continue in mature markets as audiences shift their focus from print to digital” WAN-IFRA Secretary General Larry Kilman told the Zeitung Digital Conference in Berlin this week, foreshadowing the release of WAN-IFRA’s annual World Press Trends report.