From audience to community: High-engagement strategies from the FT and The City

2025-05-21. The rising importance of reader revenue and the decline in referrals from social and search have led publishers to deepen their relationships with their audiences. Here’s how two diverse news publishers are responding.

How Mediahuis is rebuilding journalism with, not just for, Gen Z

2025-05-21. Gen Z is rewriting the rules of media engagement – rejecting condescension and calling for journalism that feels real. The message is clear: They want more than access; they want relevance, belonging, and content that speaks to them.

Latin America: Press Freedom Struggles Under Increasing Authoritarianism and Financial Pressures

2025-05-20. Increasing Authoritarianism and Financial Pressures represent the dual threat that now defines journalism’s reality across the Americas. These are not parallel challenges; they are deeply interconnected. Political hostility and economic precarity are converging, weakening the role of the press as a pillar of democracy

Rainer Esser: Die Zeit riding the wave of its ‘dolphin culture’

2025-05-20. As CEO of the German weekly since 1999, Dr. Rainer Esser has had a front-row seat to the radical evolution of the news industry over the past couple of decades. At our Congress, he shared the approach that has helped the news brand quadruple its revenues and achieve long-term sustainability.

Resilience is not just a belief at Agora – it’s a strategy

2025-05-20. During a panel discussion at our recent Congress in Krakow, moderator Lucy Küng asked the group of CEOs on stage, “What is the one truth you wish people had told you before you became CEO?” Bartosz Hojka, CEO of Agora in Poland, was up first: “That I’m not going to be running a media company, but a crisis management company with a newsroom attached.”

Colombia under pressure: 2024 Annual Report highlights a hostile environment for independent journalism

2025-05-19. Colombia has been identified as the second deadliest country in Latin America for journalists, according to the newly released 2024 Annual Report, which warns of a persistent climate of violence, censorship, and intimidation against the independent press.

‘War/life balance’: Lessons in modern war reporting from Ukraine

2025-05-16. Ceasefire or no, Ukraine’s journalists – most of them women – have had to adapt to the realities of an invasion on all fronts. A war correspondent shares lessons learned for journalists worldwide.

From call centres to newsroom tools: How Reuters and Rheinische Post are making AI work

2025-05-15. Two publishers with different scopes but similar priorities are finding common ground in how they approach AI. Their strategies offer practical lessons for newsrooms navigating the risks, opportunities, and everyday realities of adopting the technology.

Ukraine’s Women in Media: Networking against a war on all fronts

2025-05-14. ‘Online violence against female journalists most often escalates after they publish investigative reports on socially significant topics such as war, corruption, and human rights.’ – Liza Kuzmenko, on escalating threats while war rages on.

From Norway to India: How AI is reshaping global fact-checking efforts

2025-05-13. “We know how fake news spreads, and it spreads rather quickly,” said Shashank Chouhan, Output Editor for BBC Indian Languages, Collective Newsroom, underlining the urgent need for fact-checking in today’s information landscape.