Maybe we’ve just been too busy struggling to survive. How else to explain the apparent dearth of any — or any substantial — environmental sustainability initiatives at many media companies? After a rush of sustainability policy activity about ten years ago when the topic was initially hot,...
By Marty Baron, Former Executive Editor, The Washington Post, USA Let me describe a moment in the aftermath of the Boston Globe’s investigation into sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, and the movie Spotlight that portrayed it. It is a moment I shall not forget: a...
Media companies face a lot of challenges, but creativity is not one of them. Creativity in media has never been easier and more abundant in more ways and in more places. Not only is creativity alive and well, but it is also spreading into areas of the...
By Faisal J. Abbas, Editor in Chief of Arab News, Saudi Arabia It is a cliche and a truism of journalism that bad news is good news: there’s nothing like a full-scale disaster to drive traffic to our websites and send print copies flying off the...