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.

At Expo, Golden says storytelling is key to engagement

As publishers, “all of the important numbers that we look at are basically proxies for engagement,” said Michael Golden, WAN-IFRA President and former Vice Chairman of The New York Times, during the opening of WAN-IFRA’s 48th World Publishing Expo and Digital Content Expo on Tuesday in Berlin.

Expert advice on aligning your strategy with digital platforms

Digital platforms may not offer up that much for publishers in terms of advertising revenue, but news organisations are coming up with other ways in order to derive value from them.

Available now! World Press Trends 2018: Measuring the value of trust

The impact of trust on the performance of news and the revenues of news media companies worldwide is undeniable, according to the findings of WAN-IFRA’s latest World Press Trends report.