By Lisa MacLeod, Vice President WAN-IFRA,Digital Consultant, Former Head of Digital, Arena Holdings, South Africa It is almost painful to stop and assess where news is at this point in time. To look back over the past few decades is to see a series of blows...
By Louis Dreyfus, CEO of Group Le Monde, Upon facing the momentous task of writing this piece, most media executives have probably, like me, wondered if our strategies still deserved to be highlighted at a time when most of our targets have been hindered by...
By Lukáš Fila, Chief Executive Officer, Denník N, Slovakia Staying close to the readers in terms of our activities, financing, and ownership - that was our core vision when more than forty of us left Slovakia’s leading quality newspaper SME (after a group of local oligarchs...
The world is exploding with people, trends and events that could cause you to question mankind’s basic intelligence, never mind our creativity. But every year in researching this chapter, we rediscover just how clever, creative, responsible, and caring those of us in the much-maligned media industry...
By Maria Ressa, CEO and Executive Editor, Rappler, The Philippines An attack on one is an attack on all. The first time I heard that was more than two decades ago, looking at the virulent ideology that powered al-Qaeda. That was what the terrorists used to justify...
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...
By now, your head must still be spinning after a decade of endless sure-fire revenue solutions you’ve been told you absolutely must have right away: • A website • An app • A tablet edition • Aresposive mobile site • A bazzilion page views • ...