Open letter from media and press freedom organisations on Gaza access

2025-06-05. WAN-IFRA has joined more than 130 global news leaders and press freedom organisations to demand access for international journalists to Gaza and guarantee the protection of Palestinian journalists currently working on the ground.

Read, play, swipe: The strategy behind The New York Times app revamp

2025-06-05. Last October, The New York Times rolled out a major redesign of its app bringing together news, games, audio, and lifestyle content in a streamlined experience – a strategy aimed at keeping readers engaged, increasing time spent with the app, and highlighting the full value of a Times subscription.

No ads. No investors. No compromise: How Mediapart makes independence pay

2025-06-04. Known for exposing scandals at the highest levels of French politics and business, Mediapart has built a reputation as an investigative powerhouse. Beyond its hard-hitting journalism, the French publisher has created a sustainable, fully reader-funded business model that is rooted in its core value of radical independence.

Globe and Mail’s acceleration strategy paying off in challenged Canadian market

2025-06-04. “… The repeated suggestions about turning Canada into the 51st state has obviously put a shiver down our country’s back.” That is just one of the numerous disruptions that Globe and Mail CEO Andrew Saunders says the news organisation is navigating in recent months. His response: innovate and accelerate.

Vietnam’s Nhan Dan sparks Gen Z frenzy with panorama print edition

2025-06-02. Released last May, the edition transformed a 132-metre historical mural into a 3.21-metre fold-out panorama across four connected pages. The result? It sparked a viral ‘newspaper hunting’ trend on social media, was reprinted thrice, and even showed up on resale websites – with Gen Z readers queuing for days just to get a copy.

How to integrate AI into your newsroom: ‘Not just as a tool, but as a transformative force.’

2025-05-30. AI is more than just another layer on top of the newsroom transformation configuration, says Süddeutsche Zeitung’s Fabian Heckenberger: ‘It reshapes strategy, tools, culture, audience relations, everything…’

Divining data: How AI invigorates The New York Times’ approach to investigative reporting

2025-05-30. By building tools based on repeated patterns, The New York Times is strategically applying AI as a force multiplier for investigative journalism – while maintaining traditional journalistic standards of accuracy and verification, explains Zach Seward.

Aftonbladet’s Martin Schori: When ‘everyone’ is talking about something – but we aren’t covering it

2025-05-30. If news media want to maintain – and increase – trust among their young target audience, they need a new strategy for how they handle press ethics. That’s the view of Aftonbladet’s Martin Schori.

Freelancers are more vital to the news industry than ever – can we figure out how to treat them right?

2025-05-28. Freelance journalists now account for a major share of the news industry’s workforce – yet few can survive without moonlighting, most face burnout and all are threatened by AI. WorldCrunch co-founder and Editor Jeff Israely raises critical concerns and considerations for news publishers.

Le Monde’s smart pricing drives 10% subscription growth

2025-05-26. France’s Le Monde is rethinking its digital subscription strategy after extensive testing revealed that its earlier pricing tiers were undermining long-term retention and revenue growth.