Ex-Editor stabbed just days after anti-censorship press rally

Kevin Lau, the former editor of Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao, was stabbed early this morning. The attack occurred in broad daylight and followed a rally on Sunday where thousands marched in the streets to denounce censorship. A central cause for the march was the sacking of Lau the previous month.

Sacked Telegraph editor becomes sous chef?

Some ex-editors post bitter recriminations about the corruption of their countries’ governments, others seem resigned to a changing media world. Few, if any, however, take the radical change in career direction that ex-Telegraph Editor Tony Gallagher revealed two days ago in a series of scintillating tweets.

UNESCO calls for editors’ input in online privacy study

UNESCO is seeking the input of editors as it investigates privacy and freedom of expression online.

South African media billionaire takes innovation sabbatical

Naspers CEO and recent billionaire Koos Bekker is to retire and spend a year travelling looking for the next big thing, before becoming chairman of the group next year. A press release from Naspers reports that Bekker “…intends to travel widely and research where the group’s next spurt of growth may come from, once ecommerce has reached maturity.”

Media groups protest China’s growing intrusion on press freedoms in Hong Kong and Taiwan

Facing ongoing concerns that pressure from a bolder and more influential Beijing is eroding press freedoms, thousands of people took to the streets in Hong Kong on 23 February to protest growing censorship and a lack of editorial autonomy.

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Inside Russmedia’s dual strategy for regional and global growth

In the January 2014 issue of World News Publishing Focus, we interviewed Eugen Russ, managing director of Austria-based Russmedia, for our cover story. It is an interesting case of regional publisher’s strategy to create separate divisions focused on traditional business and purely digital.

Editors change around the globe

In the past few weeks there has been a spate of editor changes in newsrooms across the world. In Spain the national Madrid-based dailies El País and El Mundo, as well as Barcelona-based La Vanguardia, all changed editors, while there have also been new appointments in Argentina, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

How to compare spectrophotometers

Fons Put works as senior innovation consultant for VIGC, the Flemish Innovation Center for Graphic Communication. His contribution refers to the new colour measuring equipment (eXact from X-Rite) that WAN-IFRA has chosen for the evaluations for the International Newspaper Color Quality Club 2014–2016 contest.

German journalists and editors engage in “successful” strike

About 1000 editors and journalists have staged a strike over pay and conditions in Western Germany this week.

Reporting Kiev: An interview with Storyful’s Alan O’Riordan

In the past few days an enormous amount of User Generated Content has documented unfolding events in the Ukraine. News outlets, both traditional and cutting edge, have been trying to verify this output. The Editor’s Weblog asked Storyful, one of the market leaders in social journalism, how this flood of content is being managed.