Social media networks, advertisers biggest winners in Super Bowl

Despite the score being lopsided before halftime, football fans still took to social media platforms in record numbers during the Super Bowl.

NFL announces mobile video channel for fans

Days ahead of the Super Bowl, its trademark event, the National Football League (NFL) has announced the planned launch of NFL Now, a mobile video service that will allow fans to personalize the content they receive.

India’s Lokmat Group unveils ‘Freedom of Press’ sculpture

India’s Lokmat Group recently unveiled two sculptures commissioned by the group’s Chairman, Vijay Darda.

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.