With an educational online portal, ST Schools is boosting news literacy by bringing news content from Singapore’s The Straits Times into classrooms.
World Press Freedom Day on May 3 shines a light on current issues, threats and achievements concerning #PressFreedom.
The Canadian Journalism Foundation is calling on news organisations across the globe to join the World News Day campaign, taking place on May 2, with the goal of raising awareness about the value of fair and independent journalism.
Print media continues to witness slow down, but digital sees steady growth
“Exclusivity is the single largest driver of subscriptions. If you are offering something that no one else has, it’s easier to convince someone to pay you for it,” says Rohin Dharmakumar, co-founder and CEO of The Ken.
In the space of seven years, Aller Media Finland, part of a pan-Nordic media holding, has transformed itself from a magazine publisher to a diversified media, marketing, and data services concern that continues to publish two weekly magazines. Group CEO Pauli Aalto-Setälä spoke with us about digital transformation, diversification, and a bad investment that catalysed culture change.
Who says the “pivot to video” phase for publishers has cooled? Not Styria Media in Austria or VGTV in Norway, both telling us at #DME19 that they are reaping revenues from their respective video operations after years of “obsessing” over the format.
2019-04-08. The Board of WAN-IFRA’S World Printers Forum elected Herbert Kaiser, Senior Manager, Product and Project Management, Koenig & Bauer Digital & Webfed AG & Co. KG, Würzburg, Germany, as the new Chairman and Max Garrido, Managing Director of the Spanish newspaper printing company Corporacion Bermont, as the new Vice Chairman.
In November, the Canadian government announced plans to help provide support to news publishers in the country through a journalism tax credit, a subsidy as well as a tax deduction for digital subscribers. As we wrote at the time, news publishers were being cautiously optimistic as they waited for details about just how these proposals would actually work.
In their day-to-day work, journalists are exposed to a number of threats, ranging from physical violence to cyber attacks or online harassment. What can news organisations do to keep them safe?