Let’s talk about human nature for a moment. In November 1849, a well known English writer and social critic wrote a letter to the British daily newspaper The Times after he was left deeply shook by an unfortunate event that happened in front of a local prison...
Membership is the heart of any digital economy. Or to be more precise, it is a pacemaker: a potential lifesaver for an industry looking a bit under the weather. The journalism industry isn’t looking that perky right now. Its symptoms are many. According to Pew Research...
The first round of recipients of grants to fund community journalism, paid for by Facebook, was announced on 17 July with a second round of grants also announced in the US. While many are happy as grants of up to US$25,000 remain up for grabs,...
The use of messaging apps for news has been growing steadily over the past few years. Reuters Institute has noted this trend in its annual reports for 2017, 2018 and 2019. Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Research Fellow, Reuters Institute writes in the latest report, “Our own research...
Thanks to Facebook, Libra has brought the attention of the media industry back to the blockchain after the unfulfilled hype cycles of 2017 and 2018. The promises of blockchain have been vast and large: micropayments, irrefutable audit logs, instant settlement, and smart contracts will change everything about...
WAN-IFRA has released a new report, Unlocking Journalism Resilience: Adapting a Digital Business Model to Promote Press Freedom. It examines how news publishers in politically and financially challenging environments are trying to build resilient business models. Countries covered in the report include Kenya, South Africa,...
Time magazine is making headway into immersive augmented reality and virtual reality experiences this week, with the announcement of a new app and news that Academy and Emmy Award-winning talent is joining "The March" team. On Thursday, Time launched an augmented reality (AR) and virtual...
People in power should be held accountable through service journalism. To achieve this two innovations in journalism were highlighted at this year’s Digital Innovators’ Summit in Berlin: filling information gaps to supply communities with vital information to live their lives and collaboration between newsrooms to...
Disinformation is spreading like an epidemic. According to Reuters Institute’s Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions 2019, new crises spread every week “like a game of whack-a-mole.” While the phenomenon is not new—the internet and online platforms inadvertently enable the rapid spread of disinformation...
The waves of negative press about privacy intrusions and breaches are becoming a regular occurrence. Yet the outrage cycle seems to have a short lifespan and there’s confusion and a range of expectations when it comes to data collection and usage. That said, consumers need to remain...
“Twitter, right now, when you go to it, you don't necessarily walk away feeling like you learned something.” “We've seen abuse, we've seen harassment, we've seen manipulation, automation, human coordination, misinformation.” “It's incented a lot of outrage, it's incented a lot of mob behavior, it's...
Comments sections offers publishers opportunities to engage with and deepen relationships with readers. Unfortunately, they can also easily turn into repositories of negativity and spam. This has forced many publishers like Popular Science, NPR, Vice and Reuters to shut down their comments section. That’s one...
Medium's 'pivot from advertising' two years on, why publishers are focusing on more evergreen content, and more... The ‘new Medium’ turns two. It’s been just over two years since Twitter co-founder and Medium CEO Ev Williams cut Medium’s staff by a third, and wrote a...
Civil—a community-owned journalism network based on transparency and trust—aims to make journalism sustainable through an alternative business model based on blockchain and cryptocurrency. Yesterday the company launched its cryptocurrency token CVL, opening up its platform for publishers, journalists, and readers across the world. Civil is...
Continuing FIPP's series looking behind the scenes of ground-breaking multimedia storytelling, we focus on a new project for Time magazine and studio partners Ryot and V.A.L.I.S., which is still in the early stages of production. The new immersive, virtual reality project, The March, offers audiences...
Last month, we shared Google’s “test” screenshots showing what would happen if the proposed EU Copyright Directive came into effect. It showed a digital "ghost town" with a Google logo on top; no copy, no images, scant text, and some links without context. Now the...
WordPress—the most popular publishing platform for the open web—is already used by around two-thirds of small and medium-sized publishers as their content management system. Now the company has announced an initiative to take the relationship further, and help local newsrooms create a sustainable business model....
Blockchain has been hailed as a solution to a variety of problems across different industries. Blockchain’s advocates hold that it is a revolutionary technology. But how much of this holds water and how much is just hype? A recent WAN-IFRA report, Blockchain and the Future...
In the latest episode, Chris and Esther are joined by Damian Radcliffe, Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism at the University of Oregon, to discuss what lessons from 2018 they want to see applied in the new year. The discussion takes in print, digital, memberships,...
(Part One, ideas 1-12: Paywalls and Subscriptions) Publishers, both large and small, are constantly innovating in their efforts to ensure financial viability. Whether you’re a non-profit weekly newspaper in a small town, or a large-for profit Fortune 500 company, you cannot rest on your revenue...
