Middle East Digital Media Awards winners honoured

Monday night was a big one for Saudi Research & Publishing Co., which took home a whopping 10 of WAN-IFRA’s Middle East Digital Media Awards for 2017.

‘We see more success ahead than behind’ – dmg media CEO Kevin Beatty

“If we use the time wisely, we can successfully transition our business and meet the needs of our customers,” Kevin Beatty told participants Monday at WAN-IFRA’s 12th Middle East Conference.

WAN-IFRA surveys gender balance in news organisations

As part of International Women’s Day celebrations, WAN-IFRA has created the “Gender Reality Check” survey for media houses to take during the month of March. It explores how the management of media houses can increase women’s leadership and voices in the news, and, how we as an industry can collectively promote gender equality.

Journalism under fire: challenges of our times

Traditionally, the news media has been the key generator of journalism for societies. But developments of the last decade are changing this picture.

Report explores opportunities, limitations of robo-journalism

While journalists are largely unimpressed with automated journalism in its current state, some news organisations are planning to roll out the technology more widely, a new report finds.

Local social – the winner takes all (from publishers)

As the local social network Nextdoor finalises a purchase of Streetlife’s UK assets, have publishers missed a major opportunity to stay relevant?

Power structure: Another “Big-J” project for strapped newsrooms

In this guest post, Steve Gray describes an impactful “Big J” journalism project that can easily be pulled off by newsrooms strapped for resources.

The next generation of news experience

If you think the step from print to digital was challenging, prepare yourself: The next leap for publishing and journalism is far bigger, more complex, and more exciting. It’s about going from one-size-fits-all journalism to 1:1 journalism, says Espen Sundve, VP Product Management at Schibsted, in this guest post.

The next steps in media and digital transformation

“We have to define our whole business around the nature and rules of the digital world,” writes guest poster Alberto Barreiro, an expert in the field of digital media, creative and design strategy with long international experience at companies including Grupo Prisa. In this post, Barreiro offers his view on how the media has already been changed through the digital transformation process, and what might be our best hope for the future.

Finding the right pieces to build a new future

Local media companies face an existential question: How can we build a sustainable and growing enterprise on the platform of a traditional media company? In a decade of intense effort, our industry has found no magic formula. In this guest post, Steve Gray, VP of Strategy & Innovation at Morris Communications in the USA, describes his company’s industry-leading work in sales organization, market share tracking, digital sales, recruitment sales, event ticketing and events themselves.