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Facebook rolls out “a new destination for news” in the UK: Will pay publishers for content

Facebook has started rolling out Facebook News—a destination within its app that features news from hundreds of leading national, local and lifestyle outlets—across the UK. …

5 innovative news formats to try out in 2021 – and tools to implement them

Getting creative with content for the new year More and more people get their news from places like social media or comedy shows. As a…

How Forbes is harnessing the “Substackization of media” with a new paid newsletter platform

Forbes announced it’s new paid newsletters platform last week, and industry insiders are already calling it “a big deal.” The platform, “Journalist Entrepreneurs,” will allow…

Is news worth a lot or a little? Google and Facebook want to have it both ways

Executives from Google and Facebook have told a Senate committee they are prepared to take drastic action if Australia’s news media bargaining code, which would force the…

Berlin-based news startup aims to shake-up the pan-European media market

Forum.eu is looking to turn the pan-European media utopia into reality Despite many similar problems and stories, it was always a bit of stretch to…

Google agrees to pay French publishers for news, but threatens to exit Australia if media code becomes law

In a high-stakes drama unfolding across the globe, Google indicated just how much it’s willing to bend, before it reaches what it considers to be…

The must-read publishing stories you may have missed this week

How to keep readers engaged in 2021, Google’s ranking system is changing, and more… The Internet as we know it is changing. Publishers need to…

News media bargaining code could break the internet — but there’s a fix

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has raised concerns that Australia’s proposed News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code could fundamentally break the internet…

Google Chrome scales adblocking impact to publishers

Back in May, on the Chromium Blog, Google announced plans that the company was planning to make important changes in the way its Chrome adblocker functioned.…

“Make our journalism that much more essential”: What publishers need to know about keeping readers engaged in 2021

2020 was an extraordinary year for publishers beginning with the pandemic and ending with the presidential election. It was extraordinarily challenging and required quick shifts…

2020 digital magazine reading trends: “Back issues and foreign titles total 40%”

‘All-you-can-read’ digital magazine app Readly has released its annual report into the trends, habits and insights of readers on its platform for 2020 – a year of…

Publishing during a pandemic: The push for greater diversity

The Covid-19 crisis has underlined why it’s crucial for media organisations to have a diverse workforce. The past year has brought the need for greater…

Google’s ranking system is changing: “Vastly superior” inferred links will replace the link graph

For 25 years, links have been core to how Google ranks web pages. But, today, I think most marketers dramatically overestimate their importance. There’s good…

It’s the operations, stupid: Media transformation case study

hromadske’s experience underscores importance of managing process and operations at media Media successes and failures happen in public. Or, at least, that is the conventional…

Taboola joins Instagram et al. in introducing “Stories” for the open web

Taboola, the world’s leading content discovery platform, has launched the beta of Taboola Stories, a new way for publishers to engage readers on mobile using…

Combating misinformation in 2021: Insights for publishers from NiemanLab

“Americans consumed twice as much dubious news in 2020 as they did in 2019,” reports Emily Stewart, Journalist, Vox.com. It was the pandemic coupled with…

European publishers should pay attention to US local news experiments in 2021

Smaller, European markets can learn more from similar-sized rather than international US-based giants European publishers can learn more from a successful US local news site…

Subscription icebergs in a sea of free: The Media Roundup

The challenge of launching paid products in free markets A fool and his money may be easily parted – but not necessarily as easily as…

Integral Ad Science acquires Amino Payments

Integral Ad Science (IAS), the global leader in digital ad verification, has bought Amino Payments, a leading provider of programmatic advertising transparency for an undisclosed…

16 trends and predictions for media and journalism in 2021

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism published its sixth annual edition of ‘Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions’. 1) Covid-19 is accelerating…

Consumer trust: COVID-19 edition
Consumer trust. If there’s one thing that 2020 has taught this industry, marketers and publishers alike, it’s that consumer trust is the virtue we must strive for. But while we might all have different definitions of it, the underlying definition is the same. From the laws set forth to safeguard consumer privacy, to the touchpoints …
How the media industry rebuilds by becoming human again
Writing a prediction piece for the media industry in 2021 is difficult. If I were doing something similar in December of 2019 maybe I would have played it safe and said that emerging platforms like TikTok and Twitch would play a role in meeting new audiences where they are, if media companies could remove the …
Local publisher co-operative 1XL is using data enrichment to succeed during the pandemic
On the surface, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic should be giving local news publishers a boost. Ofcom statistics from the beginning of October reveal 88% of people are accessing news about the pandemic at least once a day, and traditional sources such as broadcasters, newspapers and radio remain the most-used sources of information among adult internet …