La Presse+ passes 400,000 mark

Canada’s La Presse+ has now been downloaded more than 400,000 times since the free, French-language iPad app made its debut last April, including 60,000 downloads just since 1 December, according to a report on Foliomag.com.

Klaus Steupert: Operator models as an attractive alternative for newspaper production

Overcapacity in print and high costs are forcing printers to think about alternatives. Klaus Steupert, Managing Director of IE Graphic Engineering, indicates a possibility that, although in discussion, has not yet been fully implemented.

El Mundo editor Pedro J Ramírez bows out

Deputy editor gets top job

How a national newspaper turned into a national flag

A couple of years ago, on the occasion of the Independence Day in Sri Lanka, the national newspaper Mawbima wanted to help its readers celebrate this day with a innovative idea: Instead of looking at what could be published in the paper, they looked at what they could do with the paper.

Finnish media outlets could boycott World Ice Hockey Championships

Finnish media outlets are threatening to boycott the upcoming World Ice Hockey Championships being hosted by Belarus in May because their freedom to report is being threatened, according to Finnish news outlets Yle Uutiset and The Helsinki Times.

U.S. newspaper industry seen relatively stable in 2014

The U.S. newspaper industry remains under considerable pressure to replace lost print revenue, but the overall business stability that started to emerge last year will continue in 2014, predicts Rick Edmonds, researcher and writer for the Poynter Institute focusing on business and journalistic issues.

European Journalism Centre releases free Verification Handbook

The European Journalism Centre has just released the Verification Handbook, a free resource that provides step-by-step guidelines on how journalists can deal with user-generated content during emergencies. In this post, Craig Silverman, who edited the handbook, and Rina Tsubaki who lead and managed it, discuss how the report can help journalists.

2014 Golden Pen of Freedom awarded to jailed Ethiopian journalist

2014-01-27. Eskinder Nega, an Ethiopian publisher, journalist and blogger who is serving an 18-year jail sentence under anti-terror legislation, has been awarded the 2014 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA).

Rolf-Dieter Lafrenz: “Building cooperations between publishers”

Rolf-Dieter Lafrenz, Managing Director of the Schickler consulting company in Hamburg, Germany, discusses the development of the propensity to invest in the newspaper industry in Central Europe.

Big news brands embrace sponsored content but distrust lingers

BBC.com and The New York Times open digital platforms to paid-for content but journalists fear loss of credibility.