Since ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence tools burst into the public consciousness, only a few short months ago, the media industry has had to go through several phases of reckoning. What started as mild curiosity quickly morphed into concern, and a fair bit of...
Editors Note It’s time for the news industry to stand together and stand united. This is more important than ever before because Generative Artificial Intelligence, of the kind that Chat- GPT has brought spectacularly to public consciousness, is the most transformative innovation that we all face,...
PRINT IS NEARING ITS LAST Iteration in many markets around the world with the pressures of the Covid-19 years extracting a particularly heavy toll on circulation figures. As publishers accelerate plans to embrace a digital future they face a couple of major challenges: Not all markets...
Best Practice in Osint and Journalism YOU’VE OFTEN HEARD THE ADAGE a picture can tell a thousand words. Take this idea and supercharge it: imagine a narrative made up o millions of images and video recordings from satellites, smart phones and data tracking devices of every...
WHAT WORKS AND WHAT'S TO COME THERE ARE YEARS in which the media industry is abuzz with talk of new tech and new solutions, and others in which older mediums have suddenly been imbued with new possibilities. We’d say that this moment is a mix of...
AS THE COUPLING CONTINUES WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD? AS FACEBOOK CONTINUES its long, “slow” breakup with the news business, a process that should now be acknowledged across the industry, each“bombshell” announcement from the company grows less surprising. And those announcements are coming in fast, even...
YOUR NEWSROOM NEEDS to manage sustainable innovation. The Covid years sent publishers racing to create new podcasts and newsletters, graphics and data visualisations, live blogs and dashboards. During this time many also introduced paywalls, experimented with existing paywalls, lowered paywalls for a time, modified subscriptions offers,...
At Innovation Media Consulting, we have always believed in the transformative power of journalism to shape societies, amplify voices, and uphold the truth. Our recent collaboration with Annahar Media in Lebanon stands as a testament to this belief—a project we are deeply honored to have...
THE PUBLISHER AS A PAID CONTENT PROVIDER THROUGH ALL the other economic troubles that publishers had to face through the pandemic hit years of 2020 and 2021, it was also a golden age for digital subscriptions. Traffic and interest in news surged as people turned to...
Editor's Note WE ARE BACK. Back in print, back to launching with an in-person event and as we emerge from a fragile world, we are happy to report that we find the news industry stronger than ever. A pandemic without journalism? Unthinkable. And now a major...