Brand extensions and the future of events in a post-COVID world

A panel of experts in the media events business from the South China Morning Post, Caixin Media and Dow Jones recently discussed the impact of COVID-19 and how they are overcoming challenges and re-thinking assumptions around live journalism and experiences.

WINner’s View: Ethnocentrism, Xenophobia and Racism: Same Difference?

2020-08-04. How do we support the Black Lives Matter movement in the US, when we are comfortable watching our societies perpetrating xenophobic acts against our own African brothers and sisters?

How a Sri Lankan publisher introduced ‘anti-microbial’ ink to assuage readers’ fears

Although the World Health Organisation has declared that newspapers are safe to touch during the COVID-19 pandemic, one Sri Lankan publisher apparently took their precautions a step further to ensure readers of the safety of their newspapers.

‘Charge or Die’: Juan Señor gives a sneak preview of 2020’s Innovation in News Media World Report

While much of the world may be frozen due to the COVID-19 pandemic, media leaders should act and not wait for the crisis to pass, according to Juan Señor, President of the Innovation Media Consulting Group. Señor, co-editor of the Innovation in News Media World Report, gave a preview of this year’s findings at the Asian Media Leaders eSummit.

Vice Media Group reveals ambitions in APAC region

In his keynote presentation to the Asian Media Leaders eSummit, Chief Operating Officer Hosi Simon said audiences can look forward to “hundreds of hours of premium documentary films,” written content and a “huge, huge podcast offering” in the coming months.

Consumer is key: Mapping the post-COVID media outlook

With the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic hitting the news industry hard, it remains to be seen what a recovery will look like and how the media will change once the dust settles. Leading analysts in China and the United States, Cecilia Yau of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ken Harding of FTI Consulting, offered their projections during our recent Asian Media Leaders eSummit.

GNI APAC Subscriptions Lab Launches at WAN-IFRA Asian Media Leaders eSummit

2020-07-30. WAN-IFRA, FTI Consulting and Google announced the launch of the APAC GNI Subscriptions Lab at the WAN-IFRA Asian Media Leaders eSummit. The Lab is an intensive four-month programme to help eight different news publishers from the Asia-Pacific region strengthen digital subscriptions capabilities and grow reader revenue. Interested publishers can apply here until August 7, 2020.

WAN-IFRA announces Taiwan to host the World News Media Congress 2021 and reschedules Zaragoza to 2022

2020-07-28. Due to continued uncertainties and travel constraints around the COVID-19 pandemic, WAN-IFRA is calling off the World News Media Congress, which was initially planned for Zaragoza, Spain, in September 2020. Meanwhile, it has named Taiwan as its venue for the 2021 Congress and rescheduled the 2022 Congress in Zaragoza.

How publishers are developing sustainable post-COVID-19 reader revenue strategies

As advertising revenues for news publishers around the world have continued to plummet, more publishers are trying to drive reader revenue through digital subscriptions. Here’s what three publishers based in Indonesia, Malaysia and Norway are doing.

The newsroom transformation: Reimagining the distributed workplace

Months into operating as distributed newsrooms, editors are distilling how COVID-19 has impacted their newsgathering and production. At the Asian Media Leaders eSummit, Fergus Bell, CEO of fathm, Mitra Kalita, Senior Vice President of CNN Digital Programming, and Warren Fernandez, Editor-in-Chief of The Straits Times, Singapore, discussed key lessons learned and what to do going forward.