Monday Innovation Lab: Innovating step-by-step, while aiming for Utopia

When you think of innovation labs, you probably imagine a room of people figuring out the next groundbreaking app or tool. Monday Innovation Lab is taking innovation citywide.

Data insights from one of Denmark’s leading tabloids

With a wealth of data on users’ behaviours and habits at their fingertips, news publishers may well be tempted to allow all decisions to be dictated by numbers. At Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet, however, the final calls will always lie with journalists and editors, despite data affecting every aspect of the organisation.

In the market for a new CMS? Check this checklist

So you’re in the market for a new CMS or coming to WAN-IFRA’s Expo to investigate possible solutions. What are the most critical questions you should be asking vendors? Industry veteran Luc Rademakers specialises in ROI of content production so we tapped him for some advice.

How US newspapers are getting creative to diversify their revenue streams

Building an escape room, launching a direct public offering (DPO) for direct reader investment, and renting a room on Airbnb: all ways newspapers are thinking outside the box to diversify their revenue stream. In this guest post, Mary-Katharine Phillips of Twipe says those ideas all provide valuable insights into how newspapers must start thinking about their reader revenue strategies.

Innovation in tools and digital storytelling to report complex social phenomenon is extending to Latin America

Outstanding digital journalism projects, focused on reporting social, natural, and political phenomena that have had an impact in society, have been present in Latin America lately thanks to the use of data visualization techniques, didactic navigation, and the groundbreaking use of photography and video in the news.

Stanford Computational Journalism Lab: Laying the foundations of US data journalism

Working from the ground up, Stanford University is taking a new approach to innovation to provide platforms for journalists to tell stories that would otherwise go untold.

WAN-IFRA president accepts Press Freedom Award from Brazil’s ANJ

On 30 August, WAN-IFRA was presented with the annual Press Freedom Award of Associação Nacional de Jornais (ANJ)- the Brazilian Newspapers Association. WAN-IFRA’s President, Michael Golden, and WAN-IFRA CEO Vincent Peyrègne were on-hand to accept the award in São Paulo. Below is Michael Golden’s acceptance speech.

From fact checking misinformation to making real content go viral

We spoke with Alba Mora Roca, Executive Producer of AJ+ Español, who was in charge of all visual materials from Verificado 2018. Alba will be a speaker at #DML18, next November 14-16 in Bogota, Colombia.

Q&A: How The Economist revamped its newsletter strategy

Last September, The Economist deployed a dedicated team to revitalise its approach to newsletters. The goal? To use them to deepen their relationship with readers and draw them down the sweet spot of the subscription funnel for good.

BBC’s Trushar Barot on how AI will change newsrooms

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not only capable of changing the way newsrooms produce and discover content but it can also go a long way toward improving user experience, says Trushar Barot, the Digital Launch Editor of Indian Languages at BBC World Service.