Over the past 20 years, INNOVATION has designed many multimedia newsrooms, several of which are industry benchmarks worldwide. Here are some of our suggestions. 1. OPEN SPACES, WALLS-DOWN INNOVATION FORMULA Open Newsroom Creativity + Communication + Collaboration = Better Content 2. DIGITAL-FIRST (JOURNALISM-FIRST) News first, platform second. We tell...
‘Fake news’ became a hot topic of conversation in 2017. Although it is a phenomenon that has quite rightly led to widespread concern, it is also arguably the best thing to happen for serious journalism for some time. Fake news highlights both the risks of relying...
1 Reduce cognitive load Understand how human factors influence the experience and work towards a solution with the least cognitive effort for the user. Example: The Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab's notifications experiment during the UK's snap election in June 2017 learnt from previous experiments to include easy...
While the main medium for journalism to flourish in the last century has been the written word, digital with its fusion of text, images, graphics and video offers journalists a panoply of new storytelling options to choose from. The news business must explore and experiment with...
Service journalism tends to address the needs of the audience as consumers rather than as citizens, providing advice and recommendations that will help them in their day-to-day lives. It identifies and reports on a specific need of its audience, and then offers solutions, which will...
The flux and change that mark the financial picture of our industry today bewilder companies around the world. There is no single solution to address falling revenues, but it is clear that news publishers must get better at exploring diverse revenue streams outside print advertising,...
Arab News has won 2018 Best Redesign in the World silver award at the WAN-IFRA Print Innovation competition. The competition judged by a distinguished jury of industry leaders recognises the best cases of ‘innovation with impact’ in terms of audience engagement, relevance and increase in revenue. The...
Earlier this summer, INNOVATION Media Consulting completed the successful reinvention of Tiso Blackstar Group's two Eastern Cape news brands The Herald and The Dispatch in South Africa. The Herald, in Port Elizabeth, and the Dispatch, in East London, now sport dynamic new designs that reflect also...
The media industry has been more affected by digital disruption than any other, according to several studies, including the Harvard Business Review. Digital disruption means that the competitive arena has significantly changed due to new entrants and products that are clearly a threat to the...
It hasn't been the easiest year for news media. In many countries, advertising revenue continues to fall. Facebook, which has sent significant amounts of traffic to news sites, announced earlier this year that it was planning to change its newsfeed to deprioritise content from media...