Women in News: Reshaping the media industry from within

So much has changed for women this past year that there has never been a more opportune time to talk about the need to reshape media leadership from within.

Swiss reject motion to scrap public broadcasting licence fee

A large majority of Swiss voters rejected a proposal to do away with the mandatory licence fee that provides some 75 percent of funding for the country’s public broadcaster.

MEC18 in Dubai: Building audiences, focusing on quality engagement

Artificial Intelligence, Hollywood, healthcare, and even a compelling argument for the future of paper all featured in publishers’ roadmaps on the second day of WAN-IFRA’s 13th Middle East Conference, which took place at The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach Resort & Marina this week.

manroland and Goss to merge

The web printing press manufacturing landscape just contracted: Goss International and manroland web systems announced today that the two companies will merge.

Connecting transformation and profit: The Middle East Conference, Day 1

AI and robots added futuristic sparkle, but the real agenda of these roadmaps had less to do with crystal ball gazing and a lot to do with following the money, according to guest poster Steve Shipside.

The Backstory S1E2: Show me the money – Censorship + financial independence

How do you run an independent media organisation in a country where the government imposes censorship rules? How do you support a successful media company without folding to pressure from your funders or your sponsors?

News as a commodity – How newspapers can survive the digital age

As readers around the world increasingly get their news online, the media industry has struggled to balance making readers pay for their news and keeping information accessible. Should readers have to pay for their digital news and if not, how do news organizations stay afloat in the digital age?

Middle Eastern Digital Media Awards winners honoured in Dubai

The winners of WAN-IFRA’s Middle Eastern Digital Media Awards for 2018 were recognised during a ceremony at the close of the first day of the 13th annual Middle East Conference, which is taking place at The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach Resort & Marina from 28 February through 1 March.

Reader revenue strategy: Schibsted shifts focus to ‘stickiness’

As of October last year, Schibsted’s newly formed Media division has an SVP Consumer Business, Tor Jacobsen. It’s a new role, spanning the group’s news brands across Sweden and Norway and signalling the next phase of an already successful reader revenue strategy.

13th WAN-IFRA Middle East Conference opens in Dubai with a roadmap for the future

In today’s fast-changing media landscape we are all looking for a guide to the road that lies ahead, so the 13th annual Middle East Conference, held by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) under the theme “Roadmaps for transformation,” was perhaps its most hotly anticipated to date.