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Hashtag Our Stories aims to build a global network of mobile storytellers

With Hashtag Our Stories, Yusuf and Sumaiya Omar aim to build a global multichannel news network by equipping people in underserved communities with mobile journalism skills to help them tell their stories.

Media Lab Day participants go home full of new ideas, contacts and possible partnerships

‘Collaboration’ was the key word at GAMI’s first Media Lab Day in Bordeaux. The heads of media labs repeatedly expressed their wish to work together in the future.

Family ownership – unique problems and solutions

In this guest post, Steve Gray urges family owners of news publishing businesses to take full advantage of external help when tackling difficult issues specific to their situation.

Inside CEO David Callaway’s plans for TheStreet

“It’s definitely a big change, but I think it is a logical step in the progression of where the industry is going, to have editors who understand how news works to be in the front office, and to try to help monetize that. As long as you can maintain some sort of wall between the two, I think that works.”

Döpfner demands fair, equal treatment for press outlets

Dr. Mathias Döpfner, President of the German Newspaper Publishers Association (BDZV) and CEO of Axel Springer SE, said news publications must be treated fairly by Google and other dominant digital platforms. The same applies to German and European governmental authorities, he said. He was speaking at the association’s Newspaper Congress 2017, held recently in Stuttgart.

Congo’s victims of violence: Why the birds stopped singing

Toronto Star Editor-in-Chief Michael Cooke, who also serves on the board of the World Editors Forum, and Congolese award-winning journalist Badylon Kawanda travelled together to the heart of one of the world’s biggest refugee crises in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

CPN – Content Personalisation Network

The CPN Project is researching and developing an improved personal news offer, enabling economic impact for large and small news publishers. WAN-IFRA’s Global Alliance for Media Innovation has joined the project to connect it with its network of media professionals that could benefit from it.

Hackastory: teaching coders and journalists how to collaborate

Building the future of journalism by organising journalism Hackathons where multidisciplinary teams of designers, coders and journalists work together.

Publishers’ fear: ‘reluctance to innovate’

“What is the single most important risk to a news organisation’s future success?” Perhaps finding new business models? Nope. More disruption from the likes of Google and Facebook? Nope. A lack of trust from readers? Nope. According to our World News Publishers Outlook survey, most publishers say it is a “reluctance to innovate.”