2019-11-04. The ongoing conundrum of the industry: Overall global revenues in 2018 continued to shrink as did newsrooms, yet paying audiences and demand for quality news continue to increase.
Taking an “Audiences First” approach has been crucial to a remarkable revenue increase for the Barcelona-based newspaper ARA, says the company’s chief revenue & innovation officer, Georgina Ferri Tordera.
Shifting strategies toward embracing digital transformation in the 21st century boosted the Financial Times to more than a million subscribers in 2019, Nashua Gallagher told attendees of WAN-IFRA’s recent Digital Media Asia conference in Hong Kong.
Google Vice President of News Richard Gingras discusses how publishers should take a closer look at nations’ regulations over copyright and misinformation, writes Chad de Guzman.
The rate at which new consumers are using mobile is overtaking desktop usage, and this shift should change the way online publishers approach their audience.
In a light-hearted, but still sobering, presentation during Digital Media Asia 2019 in Hong Kong, media executive, artist, and serial entrepreneur Jaeson Ma shared his insights on how to engage the next generation of media consumers.
Facebook also says it will continue to explore monetisation options suitable for each publisher’s needs, writes Chad de Guzman.
2 November is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. 9 out of 10 cases are unresolved. 93% of killed journalists were local journalists. It is up to all of us to help protect journalists, so that they may continue to inform us.
As we mark another International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists on 2 November, the IFEX network salutes some of the many ways people are working to make it safer for journalists to do their work.
In this post, Amina Boubia from the Program on Independent Journalism explores how satire can make journalism more entertaining and accessible for new audiences.