How one man’s action started a drive for greater gender balance in BBC output

Ros Atkins, presenter of BBC Outside Source quietly started an initiative to change the gender balance of contributors on his television news programme – and it proved so inspiring that more than 80 programmes are now taking part in the BBC’s 50:50 challenge.

Axel Springer shakes up media brands, aims to unify tech across titles

No stranger to major transformation projects, late last year, Axel Springer began a massive new initiative that will see the media company, one of Europe’s largest, move from a brand to a market-based focus.

Winners of European Digital Media Awards 2018 show power of engagement + great storytelling

The winners of this year’s European Digital Media Awards offered a unified theme that building strong user engagement has become as essential as great storytelling in delivering content that makes an powerful impact.

‘Forbidden Stories’ aims to keep the investigations of threatened journalists alive

Amid the growing threat to journalists’ safety in many parts of the world, a collaborative project called Forbidden Stories is working towards combating this unsettling trend by pursuing the stories of journalists who can no longer continue their work because they have been threatened, imprisoned or killed.

Sign up – Creativity in Journalism MOOC

As part of the INJECT project, the MOOC brings together the knowledge, technology and network developed so far to support creativity in journalism.

Mexico’s CCNews on the importance of audience analysis and groundbreaking formats

CCNews is Mexican media company Cultura Colectiva’s initiative to keep the millennial generation entertained while reading hard news and staying updated. An interview with CCNews’ Head of News, Eduardo Navarrete, details the site’s main characteristics.

Emphasis on digital results helps newsrooms transform

For Eric Ulken, digital transformation of a news publishing operation is best treated not as an end in itself but rather as a means to an end.

The digital audience is at the centre of El Financiero’s redesign

What is the first thought that comes to mind at the mention of economic and financial journalism? A man in a suit on Wall Street reading a solemn and boring newspaper. But times have changed – and Mexico’s El Financiero knows it.

Verificado 2018: Using collaborative journalism to fight fake news in Mexico

For years, journalism has been praised as the “fourth estate,” placing it alongside the powers of democratic governments or in the process of democratization: the executive, the legislative and the judicial.

Lessons learned from the BBC’s global editorial transformation

Dmitry Shishkin is the BBC World Service’s Digital Development Editor. In this position, he and his colleagues are in charge of driving the digital transformation of the Service’s editorial teams around the world.