2015-10-29. The release today of three new reports outlining the effects of soft censorship on the media in Hungary, Serbia and Mexico makes for alarming, but altogether unsurprising reading.
To mark the International Day to End Impunity and Crimes Against Journalists, Zaffar wrote to his WEF colleagues giving them an update on his recent work to bring the safety of journalists in Pakistan to greater attention. His inspiring account is reproduced here, with permission.
It was 7 pm on a recent Friday evening in Paris. The small, crowded office of Spicee was still humming with noise as eyes concentrated at computer screens and footsteps shuffled from meeting room to office space with lingering work discussions. The young, 10-person team was preparing the finishing touches of their weekly newsletter, a simply designed template with a large screenshot introducing a new documentary on Mexican mafia and smaller ones linking several other films.
Less than one in ten cases involving the killing of journalists are ever resolved.The near complete impunity for the perpetrators of crimes against journalists goes against everything that we stand for, our shared values, our common objectives, says Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO in a statement ahead of November 2, the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.
This is the first article of a three-part series about how distributed content will impact publishers’ content strategy. Ultimately, WAN-IFRA plans to focus on producing a series of reports on this topic in cooperation with leading industry media analyst, Andreas Pfeiffer, who authored this analysis.
Gail Jammy, Director Business Development, BBC Global News
Lavalee told us that from where he sits, product evolution definitely drives how job titles and responsibilities evolve.
“Don’t try to reverse engineer your work to an imagined audience,” says Jason Mojica, Editor-in-Chief of Vice News, emphasising that it is equally important to know your audience as it is to be yourself.
Furthermore, media is not a factory in the business of making content, but rather is a service designed to serve the public.
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.