Media, Our Best Hope On World Press Freedom Day

Pressures on journalists and media organisations are designed to reduce transparency and accountability in society. Usually it means powerful interests have something to hide from public view. Ultimately, media need to do more to convince public opinion that such targeting is an attack on common values and will not be tolerated.

‘Fake news’ is not journalism

Would you trust your news from any source? How are we able to ensure that ‘fake’(d)news does not overtake the flow of information asks Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director-General on the eve of World Press Freedom Day.

Truth in the age of Trump: why things are much, much more difficult

The ability of citizens and journalists to ‘speak truth to power’ is disappearing before our eyes, writes Julie Posetti.

This is what Mobile Journalism looks like today

Mobile Journalism has come a long way in 30 years, writes Robb Montgomery.

Blowing up some myths about online news video

“What we’re talking about today is opportunities for online video, but I’m also going to be brutally honest about some of the problems too, and I think that involves exploding a few of the myths around video,” Nic Newman told participants at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference this week in Copenhagen.

The rise of VR, live video and new content formats

Publishers around the world are launching new product formats to feed their audiences’ growing demand for mobile, video and innovative ad solutions. Joon-Nie Lau followed the presentation of case studies from Malaysia, South Korea and the USA at last autumn’s Digital Media Asia conference in Singapore.

Attacks on the press: the new face of censorship

Many reports have been written about the deteriorating state of freedom of expression around the world, but very few capture the mind-boggling diversity of ways that journalists and news organisations have been attacked, harassed, intimidated or shut down quite the way CPJ’s new report Attacks on the Press does, writes Javier Garza Ramos, safety advisor to the World Editors Forum.

How The Economist is attracting Millennials

“We’re not expecting 16-year-olds to use their pocket money to take out an Economist subscription. That’s not what we’re going for. But it is about getting them into the ecosystem and showing them the depth and the breadth and the diversity of what we do,” James Waddell of The Economist told participants at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference on Monday in Copenhagen.

European Digital Media Awards winners honoured

The winners of this year’s European Digital Media Awards were honoured on the first day of WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe Conference in Copenhagen.

Journalists on Trump: “We’re not at war. We’re at work”

There can be few festivals on the planet quite like the Perugia International Journalism Festival. It’s one of those rare industry events that successfully crosses over into being something, somehow, for everybody. It’s a real festival of the mind, full of fascinating insights that seem as though they’d be edifying to anyone with even a passing interest in how we communicate.