How Stuff works: Interview with CEO Sinead Boucher

Sinead Boucher is making Stuff happen at Fairfax New Zealand, a subsidiary of Australia’s Fairfax Media Limited. Fairfax New Zealand officially assumed the name of its highly popular news site on 1 February 2018.

A New Level of Audacity for Impunity and Journalist Murders

It may be business as usual for those who seek to silence journalists, intimidate the media, or discredit our public information role, but recent weeks have seen an entirely new level of contempt for a profession desperately seeking assistance in the fight against global impunity.

Media Innovation Labs: In search of what media and news can become

Ana Cecília Bisso Nunes researches media innovation labs at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), in Brazil, and University of Beira Interior (UBI), in Portugal. Initial results show different types of media labs within the regions researched, as well as a diversity of projects, which go from digital tools and new narratives to broader journalistic topics, while fostering innovation media culture.

How Pop-Up Newsroom brings competitors together

Getting competing news organisations to collaborate in the reporting of a specific news event is quite an achievement. How does Pop-Up Newsroom founder Fergus Bell of Dig Deeper Media manage to do so, AND foster innovation in the process?

Spain’s Público rolls out open source tool in bid to boost transparency

With the launch of its Transparent Journalism Tool (TJ Tool), Spanish news outlet Público is reinforcing its commitment to transparency.

Sri Lanka: WNL keeps print profitable, with a focus on digital

Wijeya Newspapers (WNL) was established in 1979 and is Sri Lanka’s leading newspaper group. With a vision to be the most independent and socially responsible media group in the country, it has the highest annual turnover.

India: ABP goes hyperlocal to adapt to shifting print, digital markets

“I have been coming to events like this for years and everybody says ‘India is the bright spot.’ Well, I can tell you: Things are changing; the West has hit the Indian shores. Digital is starting to eat our breakfast, too,” says D.D. Purkayastha, Managing Director and CEO of the large media group ABP in India.

Indian publishers discuss changing business models, approaches to reader revenue

“The Wire has strongly believed that philanthropic support is essential to get a boost at the initial stage, but the most important part of our business model was solving the puzzle of how to get readers to pay,” Siddharth Varadarajan, The Wire’s Founding Editor, told Trushar Barot, BBC’s Digital Launch Editor during WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media India 2018 conference in Mumbai.

The New York Times’ blueprint for advancing women in tech

The woeful gender gap in news organisations has been well documented recently, so you can only imagine how that picture looks for women in technology positions at news orgs. Take The New York Times: three years ago when the company had a vacancy for its CTO job, how many women were interviewed? Zippo.

Women in tech panel: make diversity more than just a moral objective

“When a company is only doing a diversity initiative to combat a #MeToo movement, it will die.” That is from Dheerja Kaur, head of product for the millennial site, theSkimm. It is just one of many takeaways from a powerhouse Women in Tech session and panel that took place at IFRA World Publishing Expo and DCX Digital Content Expo yesterday.