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.”

How the Coral Project’s Guides can help newsrooms build more engaged communities

The Coral Project’s “Community Guides for Journalism” are the latest addition to the organisation’s suite of free, open-source software designed to help newsrooms get closer to the communities they serve.

What measures publishers are taking to methodically incorporate innovation

Innovation has been the buzzword d’jour for quite some time in our industry. But what steps are publishers taking to make innovation an everyday reality for their entire news organisations?

FT journalist killed by crocodile started out as WAN-IFRA blogger

Paul McClean, the Financial Times journalist, who died this week in Sri Lanka after being snatched by a crocodile, began his career as an intern in WAN-IFRA’s Paris office.

New WAN-IFRA report: ‘Reality check – making money with Facebook’

This new report published by WAN-IFRA today, challenges news publishers to not only rethink their revenue and relationship strategies with Facebook but also that of all platforms. Nick Tjaardstra, WAN-IFRA Global Advisory Director, is part of a working group focused on platform strategies, and contributed this for the report.

Personalization vs privacy – Where do we draw the line?

Creating a personalized experience for users is a worthwhile but extremely delicate undertaking for news publishers. Users will tolerate the necessary invasion of privacy only if they perceive the experience as a true enhancement, argues guest poster Nikolay Malyarov.

Podcasting – digital audio at its storytelling best

While podcasts were considered a novelty little more than a decade ago, this ultra-personal on-demand digital audio form is everywhere nowadays, with podcasts such as Serial or S-Town recording massive success, writes Susan Valentine, Program Manager of Opening Journalism.

NewsMavens has now partnered with women journalists in 12 countries

A new initiative called NewsMavens will see women journalists from across Europe curate the top news stories produced by their newsrooms to a common platform.