Digital Media Asia: Premium subscribers, readers or trolls?

The social media strategy you choose can bite you hard. So, think carefully first.

Digital Media Asia: Transforming the newsroom

The Straits Times editor tells us how he is changing things up at the newsroom.

The new Sport Bild app turns live match broadcast into a quiz

Play, have fun and win! It is with these appealing prospects that Sport Bild is advertising for its new free app. The app invites football fans to predict match results while the games are being broadcast and to answer quiz questions, with the chance of winning 1 million euros.

WAN-IFRA sends press freedom mission to Britain

2013-11-11. An unprecedented top-level press freedom mission is being sent to the United Kingdom by the world’s press freedom organisations in response to recent actions by the British government.

‘Don’t waste money on SEO for Google news!’

With Google serving 1 billion unique users a week and driving 6 billion publisher referrals a month, Richard Gingras, senior director of news and social products, has a unique insight.

U.K. journalists’ social media habits revealed in new survey

Cision and Canterbury Christ Church University recently conducted an online survey about the use of and attitude towards social media amongst journalists in the U.K.

Quality at risk as some U.S. newspapers slash photo staffs

As newspaper sales continue to erode, newsrooms are looking for any and all cost-cutting options including the eradication of staff photojournalists in favour of freelance work and pictures from reporters.

Circa breaks down the news, one data point at a time

What would you do if you had $2.4m to create the best possible smartphone news experience?

Author calls for journalists to become ‘knowledge specialists’

Thomas Patterson, Bradlee professor of government and the press at Harvard Kennedy School, critiques journalism today and calls for an overhaul of the current news-reporting system in his new book Informing the News: The need for knowledge-based journalism.

Study: Twitter news consumers are #young, #mobile and #educated

Twitter’s news-seeking audience stand out for being younger and more educated than both the general population and Facebook news consumers, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.