We all surf dozens - even hundreds - of sites and sources, yet none of us can afford to subscribe to everything we’d want to consume. But today we are being forced to subscribe wherever we go - cutting off everyone from access to diverse...
A combination of investment, acquisitions, and most importantly, forming alliances with fellow publishers has powered Henneo to become Spain and Latin America's most dynamic media group. For it to take just ten years makes the story truly remarkable. WNIP visited Henneo as part of our...
One purpose for journalism is to enable a community to speak with itself. In this conception journalists are a mouthpiece for the community, to allow reflection and share information. This is a journalist as a conduit. To do this effectively though, a reporter needs to...
Two months ago, the richest man in the world struck a $44 billion deal to purchase one of the world’s most popular digital properties with the express purpose of rolling back the platform’s content moderation policies. Now, he’s trying to back out of it. Ever...
With the midterm elections approaching, a tsunami of news and misinformation is about to inundate social media feeds. This is a problem because, according to research by Ypulse, a majority of young consumers (13–39) get their news from social media. Unfortunately, despite serving as the...
The publishing industry gathered this week at The Grosvenor House Hotel for the annual Professional Publishers Association (PPA) Awards. Hosted by TV presenter Tess Daly, the industry celebrated the achievements of editors, their teams and the organisations that drive the sector. The awards recognise winners in...
Digital entrepreneurs and philanthropists are collaborating to replace lost coverage The declining quality of local news coverage in the US is contained in one statistic — newsroom employment. It peaked at 74,000 in 2006, and declined by almost 60% to 31,000 by 2020. The Pew Research...
The past year has shown that lawmakers around the world are losing patience and many social media tried to court creators with new tools and funds Social media was often the main topic in 2021. Unfortunately, this was mostly because of scandals, including the Facebook...
Public-service content attracts financial support in Africa, SE Asia, and Latin America The media in this study range from small, volunteer-run news sites to profitable corporations reaching millions of readers. However, the majority of their founders said they started their news organizations not because they...
Key takeaway: B2B publishing faces severe headwinds not least with subscriptions, classified, advertising, and events, all seeing marked declines in revenue according to the latest AOP/Deloitte report. However, with the correct strategies in place, allied to a flexible and adaptive mindset, the prospects for B2B...
Playboy debuts new NFTs: Playboy Rabbitars Here’s a story to make you choke on your cereal. Playboy is set to release a series of 11,953 rabbit characters as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) called Playboy Rabbitars. The Rabbitars will be available for purchase for 0.1953 Ethereum (about...
A study of Russian disinformation campaigns in Central and Eastern Europe reveals some scary data. But it also suggests some effective countermeasures and the role journalists can play in the battle for hearts and minds. The study, Disinformation Resilience in Central and Eastern Europe, reminds us...
Increasing trust, by avoiding deceptive design practices What are dark patterns? Dark patterns are design elements that deliberately obscure, mislead, coerce and/or deceive website visitors into making unintended and possibly harmful choices. Dark patterns can be found in many kinds of sites and are used by several kinds...
Today’s journalist battles not with rivals at crosstown newspapers, but with the algorithms of Facebook, Twitter and Google. With clickbait and disinformation crowding the limited information space, there is a new urgency in the effort to find sustainable avenues to reach audiences with real journalism....
Each month the International Magazine Centre poses a question to Peter Houston, co-host of the Media Voices podcast, and magazine consultant extraordinaire, who will answer in his fabulously inimitable way. This month’s question came from Sophie Cross, freelance marketer, writer and brand new, self-appointed editor of Freelancer Magazine. What’s...
With the rollout of another membership program, we look out how the newsroom put the reader revenue playbook into practice and the added value it produced. Editor’s note: The following is a summary of the case study of the Ukrayinska Pravda membership model, launched in...
How to reflect on seven years as head of digital at The Times and The Sunday Times? Start at the beginning is always good advice, but also acknowledges the distance we – and I – have travelled. The instructions when I was given the job in...
A growing industry wants to scrutinize the algorithms that govern our lives—but it needs teeth For more than a decade, journalists and researchers have been writing about the dangers of relying on algorithms to make weighty decisions: who gets locked up, who gets a job, who gets...
Outride.rs launched in 2017, at a deeply polarized moment in Poland. It was two years after a conservative, populist government came to power, sparking civil unrest among more liberal Poles with many of its reforms. Journalists Jakub Górnicki and Anna Górnicka were concerned by the...
Digital companies are consistently tasked with innovating—from tracking traffic changes, to keeping up with platform trends, to understanding the dynamic ad tech landscape. What was predominant in the last year, however, is that innovating to meet consumer behavior and advertiser preferences was simply not enough....
