Washington Post expands foreign news operations

While newsrooms across America are being slashed to the core, The Washington Post is bucking the trend and investing in its newsrooms both in the US, and, increasingly, abroad.

Acquiring new subscribers is one thing, keeping them quite another

Two Frankfurt newspapers set to change ownership

The Frankfurter Rundschau and the Frankfurter Neue Presse newspaper, both part of Mediengruppe Frankfurt, are to move under the umbrella of German publishing group Ippen.

WAN-IFRA media freedom podcast debuts

Welcome to The Backstory, a new podcast series from WAN-IFRA exploring media freedom issues from around the globe.

How The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook strategy helped double social subscriptions

In light of Facebook’s recently announced changes to its news feed (yet again), it could be time for many publishers to shift their FB acquisition strategy on the platform. The Wall Street Journal is a case in point. With a refined subscription marketing approach on Facebook, in 2017 it succeeded in doubling subscription growth from the platform year-on-year.

German initiative brings refugee reporters into local journalism

Germany has taken in more than a million refugees since 2015, and plenty of stories have been written about them. But, according to the founders of a new project called Newscomer, the views and opinions of refugees themselves are rarely featured in mainstream media coverage.

EPFL+ECAL Lab: innovations should feel natural to users to be sustainable

Innovation is not about impressing people with the latest technologies. For the EPFL+ECAL Lab, an innovation is successful if a user forgets about the technology and instead focuses on the content.

Swiss daily Blick produces special ‘King Roger’ issue

Swiss daily Blick produces special ‘King Roger’ issue

What publishers can learn from the hotel industry, part II

Hotel chains old and new alike have taken the leap to focus on customer experience and continuous innovation. Will news publishers follow suit? A guest post by Nikolay Malyarov.

UNO: Award-winning mobile media for millennials

Like many legacy news brands, Argentina’s Grupo América set out to identify new ways to capture a younger audience. With its spin-off product UNO, the group has given the 10-person team behind it the opportunity to continuously experiment with new formats and language to draw in millennials.