Indian news executives share advice for navigating turbulent times

2024-04-05. With rapid developments around AI, the upcoming demise of third-party cookies, and audiences’ evolving content consumption habits, it is crucial for publishers to adopt a more agile mindset: “Gone are the days when you could create a five-year plan, three-year plan, one-year plan… Now it’s a one-quarter and one-month plan.”

Bangladesh’s Daily Star finds success with online careers course platform

2024-04-04. Last September, The Daily Star in Bangladesh launched Keeron, an online learning platform. It provides the news publisher with a potentially massive new audience and revenue stream, seamlessly integrating with many of the publishing company’s existing departments.

ACOS Alliance and WAN-IFRA launch the Editor Safety Hub

2024-04-04. The Hub launches with ‘The Fundamentals of Safe Commissioning’, a self-paced training course that equips editors with the skills they need to safely commission journalistic work, support the safety of freelancers they work with, and embed a culture of safety within their everyday practice.

Podcast – Constant vigilance: Press freedom in the Americas

2024-04-03. Declining trust, deepening polarisation, challenges to the business model, and an environment increasingly hostile to journalists: across the Americas, media face growing threats despite their vital watchdog role in upholding increasingly fragile democratic institutions.

Süddeutsche Zeitung: How can you drive change when you are still doing quite well?

2024-03-27. Change and transformation are inevitable for publishers when the threat is huge. But for Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), there was no threat – at least in terms of digital subscriptions. Here is how Germany’s biggest quality daily newspaper used the Table Stakes Europe method to build on its ongoing success.

HT Digital sees 20% boost in page views with AI

2024-03-27. India’s HT Digital has achieved a 30 percent boost in content reach and a 20 percent increase in page views after automating a few workflow processes. The newsroom is using AI to reshape digital media strategies, content creation and user journeys.

Expanding hyperlocal coverage: Tamedia grows its local newsletter portfolio with automation

2024-03-26. In the past year, Tamedia strategically implemented content sourcing and production automation, which has led to a significant expansion of its hyperlocal newsletter portfolio in communities with as few as 5,000 inhabitants. This growing portfolio now offers personalised and flexible distribution of local content, reaching up to 40% of the inhabitants in the serviced communities, with engagement rates well above average.

In the line of fire: Phil Chetwynd on Gaza’s journalists

2024-03-22. Unprecedented times call for unprecedented interventions. As news media worldwide face calls for honest, transparent reporting, the head of one of the world’s largest newsrooms is increasingly vocal about misinformation, obfuscation and the safety of his journalists. Our latest EDITOR TO EDITOR chat is with Phil Chetwynd, Global News Director of Agence France-Presse (AFP).

What to do about newsroom burnout? A new study offers ideas

2024-03-22. A US study on burnout in journalism finds a global industry in crisis – and proposes solid solutions for newsrooms and educators – to combat this.

Freeing up newsroom time: How Amedia’s AI sandbox will allow reporters to do more

2024-03-18. In this episode of WAN-IFRA’s “Innovate Local” series of webinars, Markus Rask Jensen, Director of News, presents the new Amedia AI Sandbox. At the end of February, Amedia launched this safe environment for all journalists in the Norwegian local media group to test and use generative AI for various time-saving tasks.