What are the pros and cons of using Artificial Intelligence in your newsroom?

2023-06-27. Lyndsey Jones, publishing consultant, digital transformation expert, strategic advisor and coach, shares her views about how to navigate an AI world where there is likely to be a further explosion of content creation in an overcrowded market.

Exceptional Editors from Botswana, Jordan and the Philippines receive the 2023 WAN-IFRA Women in News Editorial Leadership Award

2023-06-27. Emang Mutapati, editor-in-chief of The Voice in Botswana, has been named 2023 Laureate for Africa; Lina Ejeilat, co-founder and editor-in-chief of 7iber in Jordan, has been named 2023 Laureate for the Arab Region; and Glenda Gloria, the executive editor and co-founder of Rappler in The Philippines, has been named 2023 Laureate for Southeast Asia.

‘Measuring impact is not good for business – it’s great for business,’ Daily Maverick’s Styli Charalambous

2023-06-23. News avoidance is high, and trust in news is low. How, though, are newsrooms responding and adapting to the changes required to remain relevant? See why Daily Maverick’s Styli Charalambous commits to Impact Measurement.

The secret to engaging younger readers: ‘You have to adapt to your audience – they will not adapt to you’

2023-06-22. Pakistan’s The Current was founded with the aim of reaching younger people. It has been successful through a mix of having a young staff who knows what other young people want and how to deliver it to them as well as offering them with services they are willing to pay for.

Survey: Are publishers closer to cracking the code with younger audiences? Here are 6 insights we found

2023-06-22. For years publishers have taken criticism for their inability to ‘get’ Gen Z and young millennials, but the truth is more complicated, according to a new survey conducted by Digiday and Arc XP. | Sponsored Content

‘A dangerous precedent’ – global media groups decry UK political party’s ‘tax on political reporting’

2023-06-20. A growing number of news organisations and political journalists worldwide have added their voice to protest the decision by the UK Conservative Party to introduce a charge for journalists to attend its annual party conference in October.

Helping news publishers become audiences-first: a coach’s perspective

2023-06-20. We spoke with Stéphane Mayoux, one of the coaches in WAN-IFRA’s Table Stakes Europe programme, about how coaching can support news publishers as they work to transform their companies into future-proof businesses: “Understanding problems, making changes, carrying out experiments: this is what media companies need to do to survive in the digital environment.”

Testing, metrics, products: FT uses data to ace the subscription game

2023-06-15. The Financial Times treats data like an old friend. When it saw its advertising revenue decline, instead of trying to double down on it, the publisher leaned into the possibility of a new revenue stream – subscriptions. And some of its tactics have served as inspiration for many subscriber-focused publishers.

Digital News Report 2023: Audiences shift to video-based platforms; growth in reader revenue stagnates

2023-06-14. The report sheds light on the evolving role of third-party platforms as gateways to news content, and how the ongoing economic downturn is adding to news publishers’ business pressures.

Pare back and evolve: how the future of digital storytelling hinges on hassle-free tech

2023-06-14. “We should be choosing what we want to keep, not what we want to get rid of” – so says Japanese tidying guru Marie Kondo, in an adage that rings almost universally true, no matter what scenario in life it’s applied to. | Sponsored Content