Having decided to depart from its subscription-based model, a Hawaiian digital news publisher expanded its reach by abandoning it’s for-profit paywall and taking on non-profit status. They soon found readers were happy to make up the shortfall, writes Piet van Niekerk. Civil Beat's shift from...
While younger consumers show an interest in news, they are hesitant to commit to news subscriptions especially as the cost of living soars. Noam Bardin of Post News suggests micropayments as a viable solution to meet the needs of this demographic, offering a more flexible...
Social media governance models are broken and, worse, unaccountable. In an article for The Conversation, a Collectif partner, UMass Amherst's Ethan Zuckerman and Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci explain the issues and, crucially, put forward a solution - community governance. In the 2018 documentary “The Cleaners,” a young man in...
In this excerpt from our latest report entitled "How Technology Especially AI & Web 3.0 Will Shape The Future of Media", key presenters at FIPP Congress 2023 share their views on AI and Web 3.0. A key takeaway is that publishers hoping to protect their...
This is a series of articles that explores where creators and publishers are today – and where the media as we know it needs to go in the short term. The author will provide solutions and concepts for how to change the status quo at...
Today's roundup is brought to you by Chris. Automation vs. AI: What publishers need to know Our very own Peter Houston is about to release a report into AI for publishers, as trailed in our latest episode. Here, he outlines many of the tangible benefits that...
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....
