By Fran Unsworth,Director, News and Current Affairs,BBC, UK The past decade has been a disruptive – and challenging – one for those of us in the news industry. A growing distrust of authority has led to wariness of the ‘mainstream media’ – a phrase which is now...
By Warren FernandezEditor in Chief,The Straits Times Day by day, our fast-changing world grows more complex, confusing and challenging. The United States is at odds with China. The planet is getting warmer faster. Technology is disrupting just about every industry, from banks and money changers, to airlines,...
By Jens Petterson Chief Reader Revenue Officer,NTM/Upsala Nya Tidning, Sweden This is a story about greed, strategies, and, most of all, survival. It’s a story that began four years ago. By now, the “Trump bump” is a well-known expression in the fast-developing business known as economics of...
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...