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 • ...
By Tracy De Goose, Former Executive Chair of Newsworks, The Marketing Body for UK Newspapers I’m going to dive straight in and start with the C-word and talk about commercial. Why? Because we need to talk about the money. We have been selling the wrong thing and for...
This article appeared in the 2021 edition of The Innovation in Media World Report. Get your copy of the report today. The Subscription Business Model “Reader revenue is providing stable and growing income while advertising has remained volatile, with many reporting worse than expected results in 2019”...
Mark Thompson, Former Chief Executive Officer, The New York Times Company, USA A society which loses its shared culture loses much of its sense of distinctive identity. A society in which different communities and groups can no longer listen to and come to understand each other’s...