What now for UK’s Telegraph Media Group?

In this guest post, Colin Morrison contends that the new CEO of the venerable Telegraph faces one of traditional media’s biggest challenges, so his response will be watched closely across the industry.

With its new ‘weblab’, L’Avenir aims to beef up its paid content offer

Belgian regional media company L’Avenir established a weblab in the heart of the newsroom with the goal of creating visual, data-driven and long-format digital content for its subscribers.

How media companies can get their swagger back

On the backs of Mike Blinder’s business cards, it says: “Prognosis without diagnosis is malpractice.” For Blinder, President and Founder of the Florida-based Blinder Group, this means “sales reps have to go into this solutions-based sales process to learn the needs of the advertiser and then use all their media like arrows in their quiver.”

Introducing media innovation into university teaching

Through their work with Web development, virtual reality/360 video, drone journalism and multimedia storytelling, Texas State University is looking to influence digital media disciplines and research the constant evolution of the media industry.

A newspaper in the dock on Press Freedom Day

July 24 is Press Freedom Day in Turkey. Ironically, this year it is also the day journalists and executives from Turkey’s oldest and most prestigious newspaper, Cumhuriyet, will face a judge for the first time – charged with aiding and abetting a terrorist organisation. Can Dündar, Cumhuriyet’s exiled former editor-in-chief, and the 2017 Golden Pen of Freedom laureate, looks back on the night 13 journalists were arrested and placed in solitary cells after police raided their homes.

Théophraste: Building relationships within the company and with the start-up ecosystem

The French Sud Ouest newspaper in Bordeaux is inviting local start-ups to share office space and resources from within the organisation to help accelerate their development.

How French regional media group Nice-Matin built a new digital offer from scratch

In 2014, Nice-Matin was on the brink of collapse after filing for bankruptcy. Yet, its employees conjured up their own little French revolution, raising enough funding to acquire the regional group. That was the “easy” part. The hard part? Starting from scratch and launching a completely new digital strategy – with little digital savvy – to secure its future. So why not ask the community in the French Riviera and Côte d’Azur to help?

LMA’s Nancy Lane on how US media companies are transforming

As president of the US-based Local Media Association, Nancy Lane has a pretty good pulse on how small and medium-sized publishers are navigating their transformation journeys.

Independent Lab: Developing products through developing people

The lab within Independent Media is training technology graduates in media, so they can apply technology in the newsroom and innovate in the media sector.

The Dallas Morning News’ newsroom transformation

During the past two years, The Dallas Morning News has undergone a massive transformational process – turning it from a print-focused legacy news organisation into one that aims to think digital first.