The winners across the eight categories of the 2018 World Media Awards were announced last night at an exclusive VIP event held in central London. The Awards, now in their third year, are
Category: Media
The benefits of using voice-controlled devices for news distribution
With as many as 30 million smart speakers sold worldwide, innovative journalists are looking to voice-controlled news distribution as a new way to reach audiences. Over 16 percent of American adults own
A giant, multi-dimensional chess game: Publishing in the age of platforms
Authenticity and reader service remain paramount at the second annual PubTech Connect conference. It seems a well-established consensus that trust and brand recognition will be media’s life preserver amid a rising tide
Spectator launches new US website which is ‘neutral’ on Trump
The Spectator has launched a new website aimed at readers in the US which it says offers a “genuine opportunity” to reach into America. The website will produce new content from American
How digital ad spending accelerates ecommerce growth, why that is good for ‘traditional’ media
There were a number of pieces of intelligence about the media economy unveiled during WPP’s quarterly presentation to investors last week. You can find them on pages 39 and 43 if you
Google’s Hangouts Chat offers publishers an alternative to Slack
Google released Hangouts Chat last week, a service that allows users to message each other privately or in groups, and work together on projects collaboratively. The software was unveiled in March last year,
How audio journalism can boost publisher engagement
Gareth Hickey is co-founder and chief executive of NOA, a Dublin based audio-journalism company that transforms articles from some of the world’s leading publishers into professionally narrated, spoken word stories. These audio
World Media Awards 2018 shortlist announced
The World Media Group* has unveiled the shortlist for its 2018 World Media Awards, revealing the world’s best content-driven, cross-border advertising campaigns. The awards attracted interest from across the globe, with entries
News apps are making a comeback thanks to partnerships
Going “digital first” has added layers of complexity for media companies, but publishers are certainly not done exploring the digital realm. “It feels like we are still in this constant state of
The Pool’s Sam Baker on measuring digital success and launching paid-for newsletters
On this week’s episode of Media Voices, the team hear from long-time publishing professional Sam Baker, co-founder of women’s site ‘The Pool’. Sam talks about what digital success looks like, content partnerships
At IAB Conference in Palm Desert, optimism sets in
Attendees at this week’s IAB Annual Leadership Meeting in Palm Desert, California, acknowledged digital ads’ problems are far from solved, but also acknowledged there’s been progress in cleaning them up. Ad fraud
An alternative to the mobile internet for local news? Quite possibly
Could a decentralised news network better serve communities, and ‘do we always have to go large when we’re actually trying to achieve local’? In three villages in Armenia, the CAST project installed
New Scientist’s head of data science Kimberly Karman on paywalls and GDPR
On this 50th episode of Media Voices, New Scientist’s head of data science Kimberly Karman talks about the practical application of data science to a business, how to tackle GDPR and how
Vox Media: quality, scale and sustainability matter now more than ever
Founded in 2005, Vox Media features over 300 sites with a team of 400 paid writers. The company operates offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, and San Francisco. Last Wednesday , Vox Media’s
The New Publishing Economy: An optimistic case for the industry in 2018
Twenty-one years ago, almost to the day, the New York Times embraced the “World Wide Web” and launched an online version of its daily newspaper, part of its “strategy to extend the readership of
Paywalls are back? For the FT, they never went away
The pink financial paper has used online subscriptions since 2002. After decades of diminishing ad returns, fellow digital publishers are finally catching on. Late last year, the Financial Times reached a pretty
What are bridge roles in media organisations?
‘At the core of it is an ability for someone to not treat things as just ‘that’s not my job’ If you work in a newsroom and you often find yourself acting
Prime Minister announces rapid response unit to tackle ‘fake news’
The Prime Minister is to launch a rapid response unit to battle the proliferation of “fake news” online, it has been announced. Officially named the National Security Communications Unit, it will be
Rupert Murdoch tells Facebook to pay ‘trusted’ publishers
Rupert Murdoch is calling on Facebook to pay “trusted” publishers if it wants to carry their news stories and videos, much like a cable company pays networks for their channels. The media
What to expect from media metrics in 2018
From podcasts and VR to advertising and loyalty, here are ten storylines to watch in media metrics in 2018 and beyond. Our first story has to be about cross-device measurement, a must
‘More views, angles and perspective’: Why community journalism may be the future of news
Community journalism, the local news coverage typically focused on neighbourhoods, suburbs and small towns, helps to address gaps in the mainstream media, providing increased diversity, greater depth and context to reporting in any
Facebook killing news is the best thing that happened to news
On January 12, Facebook announced that it would begin to de-prioritize news publishers and their stories in users’ News Feed over highly engaged-with content shared between friends and family. In December, the social network