Paid content: How to gain new customers in local markets

About eight months ago, the German publishing house DuMont began using paid content at their Cologne-based news brands, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger and Kölnische Rundschau. In this article, Carsten Groß, Managing Director at DuMont, offers some of their top takeaways to date.

Innovation at The Washington Post: elections, storytelling, and reader experience

Greg Barber, The Washington Post’s Director of Newsroom Product, talks about the organisation’s approach to election coverage, new storytelling formats, and experimentation on channels like TikTok and Twitch.

Contracts Are Essential For Safety

Protecting the physical safety of journalists starts well before they head out into the field. While trainings that address physical and mental safety are important, it is essential that journalists negotiate a contract that ensures their well-being in case something goes wrong. But because of the costs of doing so, some media outlets are hesitant to create consistent protocol.

Podcast – Contracts that keep journalists safe

Contracts should be a part of every journalist’s conversation with an editor, especially when the assignment involves risk.

Table Stakes Europe: ‘Going public’ in Lisbon

Shortly before the end of the year, Table Stakes Europe (TSE) participants gathered in Lisbon for their second meeting. The first surprise for Table Stakes architect Doug Smith and the European programme coaches was the increase in the number of attendees (60) compared to the first meeting (45) in Paris.

HHlab: Innovating new products and business opportunities

The German media lab focuses on innovation at the business model level, seeking and creating products and commercial opportunities that go beyond the conventions of the news industry.

Germany: DuMont sells Hamburger Morgenpost

German news publishing group DuMont has ended lengthy speculation about its plans for the tabloid Hamburger Morgenpost, selling the title to marketer Arist von Harpe. The price was not disclosed.

How The 19th aims to empower women underserved by American media

A few weeks after the soft launch of The 19th, Emily Ramshaw, co-founder and CEO, explains what makes this organisation stand out, and why she chose to leave her former job to start it.

WAN-IFRA Roadmap for the turn of a decade

2020-02-06. Since its formation nearly 70 years ago, WAN-IFRA’s mission has been to meet the needs of its members and to act for the good of the entire industry and the society. This guiding charter will be just as relevant in the decade ahead as it was at our founding. WAN-IFRA will continue to evolve and transform to meet the challenges of an environment profoundly reshuffled by the emergence of new behaviours, new extensive systems of power, and emerging alternative threats to freedom of expression.

With a new department, Norway’s VG aims to grow its Gen Z audience

At tabloid newspaper VG, better understanding younger generations and learning how best to communicate with them is a top priority. So much so that it recently established a new department dedicated to bringing more young users to its website.