Project ponders ways to make money from 360 video

Hands-on experiments with advertising content in 360 video have yielded some promising results. Nick Tjaardstra, ­Director of Global Advisory at WAN-IFRA, describes the project and the lessons it taught participants.

Paid content 2.0 affects more than just editorial strategy

It cannot be an easy time for editors to navigate the myriad of challenges facing their newsrooms today. What is my editorial strategy for distributed content? How do we ramp up video? Are we mobile-first yet? How do we cleverly leverage and utilise the right data? And increasingly, paid content strategies are forcing newsrooms to rethink their entire editorial strategy.

Inside Zeit Online’s ‘pop-up’ department for the German election

Last year, the outcomes of the Brexit vote and the US election sent some media outlets into full self-examination mode, attempting to figure out why their predictions were inaccurate and whether they had, as sometimes suggested, lost touch with a large part of the population. In light of Germany’s own federal election in September, Zeit Online wanted to avoid making similar mistakes, going as far as setting up a dedicated department to tackle the task.

InVID : Video verification project involving developers, academics and journalists

Short for ‘In video veritas’ (in video, there is truth), InVID is creating a platform that allows journalists to verify video content from social networks more easily.

Open the door, it’s me

It’s been 200 days since Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yücel was arrested and imprisoned in Turkey on baseless charges of terrorist propaganda and inciting hatred. In this open letter, his wife Dilek Mayatürk Yücel shares their plight.

Cross-Pollinating Innovation and “Magic” on America’s Coasts

The Brown Institute’s mission is to explore new forms of storytelling, with the intent of furthering both engineering research and journalistic practice.

Journalists faced threats, intimidation and assault during Kenya elections

In the aftermath of Kenya’s disputed election, which saw incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta re-elected president, journalists report facing harassment, intimidation and attacks. As the country’s Supreme Court rules on 1 September on the outcome of the elections – challenged by opponent Raila Odinga – Kenya’s journalists continue their fight to report the truth.

Paid digital content is in the cards at The Hindu

In the Indian newspaper market, which is dominated by an advertising-led approach, The Hindu is transforming its 138-year old organization by means of a reader-centric, print-led, technology-enabled model. Leading the upstream swim at one of the country’s most respected media organizations is Rajiv C. Lochan, Managing Director and CEO of Kasturi & Sons Ltd.

DMJX Media Maker Space: where the Danish School of Media and Journalism meets its community

The Media Maker Space is deliberately not called a ‘Lab’, because they’re looking for co-creation rather than grand solutions.

Digital marketing services: A lucrative business in Texas

“Amateurs can waste thousands of dollars if they don’t know what they are doing. That’s where we see ADM fitting in,” says Victoria Advocate Publisher Dan Easton in describing the digital marketing services company he founded at the regional daily.