Times Media Group’s newsroom in downtown Johannesburg has a 360-degree view of the city its six news brands cover. The state-of-the-art, open plan office is within walking distance of city and provincial government headquarters. The sun glimmers on still-drying painted walls. It is a pristine,...
UK-based publisher Archant launched a pro-European weekly called The New European nine days after the Brexit vote and, each week, CEO Jeff Henry faces a referendum on whether to keep publishing it. They were only supposed to experiment for a month, but the results have...
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What used to look valuable and require large capital expenditure no longer seems so profitable, so some companies are searching for new types of prey. A bit is a bit, a prophetic Nicholas Negroponte famously said in his book Being Digital, all the way back in...
What is the point of innovating, from a business perspective? How have shifts in the media and technology industries affected the competitive landscape for all? On the surface, serious investing seems a complex business, full of arcane acronyms and circular references. Aside from the best business...
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In 2015 the Washington Post commissioned a study to get some scientific answers and proof to the perennial question: Does design matter or not in the digital age? And more specifically they asked: Does better page design cause the brain to pay more attention? The...
Beyond articles or even stories, our minds are seeking four or five different types of satisfaction when they concentrate on a text or image. Before radio, TV, the internet and smartphones, newspapers were the prime source of news and information for most people. Headlines in 80-point...
Legacy broadcasters are losing the distribution game whilst remaining important producers of primary content. They need to decide what they stand for. Confused news broadcasters are living in troublesome times and some are struggling to keep up. Just as they thought they had a handle on...
There are more shiny new things to distract you than ever before. Figure out which ones help you meet your readers’ needs, and double down on those alone. Prepare to be overwhelmed. Again. In the “good old days”, we could go for decades without a disruptive new...