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Last year Facebook hired Jesper Doub, who was then CEO of German media giant Spiegel Online, to lead its new media partnership team. In the past the high profile executive has been both a critic of Facebook and a passionate advocate of its Facebook Journalism Project. In the summer he wrote in a blog post, “I firmly believe that by working closely together, Facebook and news organisations can and will better understand each other and find sustainable solutions for trusted journalism leveraging Facebook’s products, capabilities and joint ideas moving forward.” Among its many aims the Project seeks to build closer relations…

“News automation is making its way to newsrooms all over the world,” says a new WAN-IFRA report exploring the potential of automated news. “Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are now helping journalists tell new kinds of stories that were previously too resource-impractical or technically out of reach.” Nevertheless, while newsrooms are increasingly warming up to the possibilities of automating news content, a number of challenges still surround the actual implementation and deployment of this growing development, the study found. The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) partnered with the University of Helsinki and the VTT Technical Research Centre of…

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Publishers, you’re focusing on the wrong metric for push notifications
Opinion There are well-documented ways to improve the click-through rates of push notifications. But, what they all lack is a way to determine the actual value being added.Although high amounts of click-throughs or ‘tap-throughs’ may result in short-term bursts of traffic and ad revenue, without a way to measure long-term push notification value, publishers walk …
Opinion: Design thinking in Publishing and Media
Ask an author who they write for, and you’re likely to get as many answers as there are authors. But when we’re planning campaigns and strategies, we really need to keep one person in mind: the eventual customer or consumer. In reality, this isn’t always the case. Strategies and creative approaches, look, feel and content …
Opinion: Could a new breed of media alliances be publishers’ answer to the tech giants?
Will 2019 be the year when we see publishers fight back against the rise of the big four – Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple (GAFA)? Even though, with the tech giants investing more in creating their own content in addition to aggregating content created by others, they could seem a daunting and relentless threat… A …

Facebook’s director of media partnerships on how publishers can work with the platform

Facebook’s director of media partnerships on how publishers can work with the platform

How automated news is helping publishers: WAN-IFRA report

How automated news is helping publishers: WAN-IFRA report

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Trump Inc. senior producer Meg Cramer on the opportunities of a political podcast

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How integrating analytical and editorial teams drives subscriptions

“Who is standing up for the publisher?”: Media companies speak out on Brexit impact

Opinion: Design thinking in Publishing and Media

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How The New York Times’ free student subscriptions strategy will pay off

TIME begins production on epic immersive, virtual reality experience

Q&A: Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) – increasing trust in digital advertising

Reinventing the newspaper for the digital age

How can mobile operators help digital publishers grow subscription revenue?

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“Stand strong in front of this tsunami of poison and threats”: Report from the India news conference

70% of digital publishers personalize content for visitors, study finds

What news readers really want to read about: Reuters study

Diverse habits of news consumers, from Bloomberg research

The Adaptation and Reinvention of Journalism: Key findings from Journalism 2020

As tweetstorm rages over search giant “stealing publisher traffic,” Google admits “It is a front-line concern”

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