This is a guest post from Kylie Davis, network editor, Real Estate, News Ltd, Australia, and World Editors Forum board member. 

Data is fundamentally changing journalism from a manufacturing industry where the focus is on the production of informative content, to a service industry driven by data based insights into the location, the information needs and the behaviour and emotions of readers and helps them solve problems.

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Following a genocide of science sections, the Huffington Post’s French edition recently launched “Têtes Chercheuses,” or “scientific minds,” an initiative to promote science news by publishing the work of young researchers.

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The Washington Post announced two new video shows as part of its PostTV initiative, which will gain traction in the coming weeks.

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The social media editor is not dead, contrary to Rob Fishman’s widely-circulated thesis, published in BuzzFeed on 29 May. Industry analysts agree that the job is still essential to newsrooms, but its responsibilities are evolving. Focus has shifted from marketing to editorial, with staffers living up to the title “editor.”

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