Research from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford University shows a powerful shift back to news organisations as a primary source of information during the pandemic. The Reuters Institute Digital News Report of 2021 notes that in many countries, audiences are...
We're Back! After two years of uncertainty through which we published digital-only editions, we are back in print this year and back with a live in-person event to launch this book. And you, our dear readers, are back at work, and back navigating the real world....
Haz magazine, in a project led together with Innovation Media Consulting Group and the Institute of Constructive Journalism, has received the Stars4Media award ‘Best in the Business Transformation’ category, for its inclusion of constructive journalism as a business engine and for successfully developing its new Solutions section. During...
As advertising dropped sharply through much of 2020 it seemed as if the traditional business model that underpinned the news industry was on the verge of collapse, just as demand for news had reached an all time high. At the very peak of this surge,...
Brace yourself. It’s time to change — and we mean radically change — how you recruit and retain people. What’s worked before doesn’t work anymore. (If you’re honest, you have to admit that the old way never really worked predictably all that well anyway, right?)...
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Successful media companies must morph from the dying transactional, print-advertising business model to a lasting and profitable reader-relationship model The media industry’s centuries-old marriage to advertisers was never a marriage made in heaven. They always wanted lower rates, special treatment, up-front placement, expensive make-goods, more traffic,...
The first half of 2020 tested the sustainability of every aspect of publishing, and as we have already established, revenue streams are at the top of that list. At a time when digital ad revenue continues to dwindle, and high-quality editorial content is more crucial...
By Jeongdo Hong,President and CEO of JoongAng Group,South Korea The main elements of the newspaper business are similar throughout the world. Strategies for survival, however, cannot be the same. The right remedies are context-sensitive. Strategies that lack the understanding of those contexts, are risky and costly. Like the rest...
By Jose Del Rio,Editor-in-Chief of La Nacion,Argentina Every day, 24 hours a day, a screen lights up the nerve centre of the newsroom. It is where quick decisions and detailed planning take place, to produce both the stories that generate real-time shockwaves, and those that delight...