COVID-19: How Indian publishers are fighting plunging revenues

Like many other countries around the world, India is now under lockdown due to COVID-19. Typically a strong newspaper market, we wanted to talk to publishers there to gauge how their business is faring during this challenging time. From all indications, “challenging” is putting it mildly.

How Indian newsrooms are combating the COVID-19 pandemic

As COVID-19 cases ramp up in India, newsrooms have swung into action to keep journalists safe, while ensuring a steady flow of content.

Learnings for dealing with COVID-19 outbreak from Singapore’s The Straits Times

The COVID-19 pandemic is set to be a long, draining crisis, requiring resilience from newsrooms and editors. Here, Straits Times’ Editor-in-Chief and World Editors Forum President, Warren Fernandez, shares how the newsroom is operating amid the outbreak, and how the experience with previous epidemics has shaped and informed the approach.

How mobile-only news platform NDTV HOP Live engages millennials

From food to technology to hard news, India’s NDTV HOP Live, a mobile-only, vertical viewing platform focussed on creating sharable, interactive and on-the-go-video content for millennials produces 30-35 hours of fresh video content every week.

WAN-IFRA launches coronanewsroom.org, a resource desk for news media professionals

2020-03-23. WAN-IFRA has published a dedicated resource site at www.coronanewsroom.org to share its members’ experiences, best-practice, crucial resources, and the things we are doing to help.

Webinar takeaways: Newspaper production in the time of COVID-19

In times of crisis such as the present, experiences and lessons learned are especially valuable, as demonstrated by strong attendance at last Wednesday’s WAN-IFRA Webinar.

Now live: Coronanewsroom.org

The impact of the Coronavirus pandemic is reverberating within news organisations, impacting every aspect of publishing: newsroom organisation, distribution, production, planning, coordination and ensuring staff’s safety and well-being.

Webinar takeaways: Newsrooms adapting to rapid changes

During a WAN-IFRA World Editors Forum webinar on Thursday, editors from Asia and the United States discussed how they and their editorial teams have made the swift transition necessitated by the rapid rise of the coronavirus from their traditional newsrooms to working from home to get their publications out and keep their readers informed.

MediaLab EAFIT: Colombian perspective on media innovation

Media innovation methodologies are often created in well-developed media markets, but do they function equally well in different contexts around the world? We spoke to a Colombian university media lab to find out how it approaches its innovation projects.

Coronavirus: Germany’s Lensing Media offers ‘help’ page in print, new newsletter, more video

As the number of COVID-19 cases rises, many news publishers around the world are rapidly developing additional print and digital services, in particular daily newsletters, for news and information relating to the pandemic.