Thanks to the widespread use of smartphones, mobile news consumption has rapidly grown and changed the way people receive and interact with news. With the majority of the readers accessing news through their mobile...
AI is now a common feature in many industries, and journalism is no exception as technology advances. In many ways, AI is revolutionizing the way news is delivered, starting from the operational level and...
In the world of fast moving digital news, having a strong community can be a huge advantage for publishers. As readers demand more targeted content and interactivity, audience engagement has become a critical way...
That is why news publishers have to continue their development and stay a part of the constantly developing digital advertising ecosystem. Since advertising payments are still among the primary sources to generate revenue in...
In the current environment characterized by rapidly evolving media business models, advertising and subscription revenue sources are not adequate for many news organizations to break even. In recent years, newsrooms have experienced a decline...
As the market environment intensifies and more and more media organisations shift their operations online, cost control has emerged as one of the critical factors that determine the financial sustainability of newsrooms. As many...
Independent journalism is a relatively new phenomenon in the field of journalism and it has to deal with a multitude of problems which are closely connected with the decline of the more conventional sources...
It will be seen that economic crises affect a number of sectors and the global newspaper industry is not immune to it. Through the years, it has been seen that conventional print media has...
Over the past few years, blockchain technology has been embraced widely because of its potentialities of bringing change across the globe especially in the finance, supply chain and healthcare sectors. There is one industry...
As digital content has become ubiquitous and free, the problem of how to support quality journalism has become not a question of why, but how. As advertising revenues decline and other sources of revenues...
It is quite accurate to say that the digital age has had its effects on the news publishing industry and these effects are in the form of opportunities as well as challenges. The most...
The consumption of news has long changed in the new conditions of digitalization, and people tend to read the news using the Internet. As this shift remains the new order of things, media companies...
Over the years, new media platforms have encountered numerous challenges, especially in the area of Operationalisation, with specific reference to the monetization of content. These platforms as we enter 2025 are still experimenting and...
From France comes the mildly surprising news that Le Huffington Post has become the country’s premier online-only news source. Figures released this morning by Médiamétrique/Netratings show that the site received 1.916 million unique visitors...
The Newsblaster project was developed by the Columbia NLP (natural language processing) Group and has been running since September 2001. Under the direction of Professor Kathleen McKeown, the site processes news stories through the...
Why should journalists care about the scientific method? I suggested in my post last week that journalism students should take a lab science class to learn about the scientific method. Here’s why I think...
When it comes to launching a newspaper app, the first priority is to define your target group and understand their desires, says Romanus Otte, General Manager of Welt Online in Germany, which produces the...
With declining print circulation and advertising revenues, newspapers have been eyeing tablet devices – especially the iPad – as an important new revenue stream for the future. The San Jose Mercury News reported today...
The free newspaper industry seems to be doing better this year as only three dailies have closed in the first 8 months of 2010, Newspaper Innovation revealed yesterday. In the last four years, 2009...
The Malaysian government has suspended the publication of Suara Keadilan, the main opposition newspaper, for “publishing false news that could incite public unrest,” The Associated Press reported. The weekly newspaper, directed by opposition leader...
Time Magazine has not put up a paywall, nor has it started asking visitors to register in order to view content. It is, however, not allowing users to see all of its content. Time.com...
The Italian Senate yesterday approved a controversial €25 billion austerity programme, which includes cuts to newspapers’ funding budgets, The Financial Times reported. The economic maneuver was sent to the lower house and is expected...
Since 2008, more than 166 newspapers in the United States have closed down or stopped publishing a print edition, according to Paper Cuts, SFN’s Million Dollar Strategies for Newspaper Companies reported. More than 39...
Following in the footsteps of The New York Times, French news sites like L’Express and Le Figaro will be providing paid-for online content, Le Monde reported today. News magazine L’Express intends to propose a...
Global advertising expenditure will grow to nearly $550 billion in 2011, from about $375 billion in 2003, according to ZenithOptimedia. TV and newspapers are the two media with the biggest shares throughout that time...
CircLabs, a venture between the Donald J. Reynolds Journalism Institute and several media entrepreneurs,is planning to propose new technology that claims to help news organizations in both obtaining loyal readers and introducing tiered payments,...
Growth in online readership is not enough to offset the drop in print readership, the Pew Research Center reported in a study last week. The report follows Pew’s 2008 news media consumption survey in...
The first social network for airlines will be launched by the end of this week by the Air France-KLM group, Le Figaro reported Tuesday. Web site www.bluenity.com will allow passengers to engage with others...
YouTube plans to sell music and video games and to experiment with new advertising formats to generate more revenue, executives said Tuesday. The video sharing site is now tapping into e-commerce by selling media-related...
Advertising or editorial links in newspapers and on television are more likely to drive consumers to a Web site than links on Google Adwords, according to findings of a survey of 1,000 UK consumers...
The Washington Post released terms of previously announced employee buyouts Wednesday. Its new publisher Katharine Weymouth added that if there is no enough staff participated, layoffs were possible, The Post reported Thursday. Last month...
The Newspaper Association of America spent almost US$1.6 million last year lobbying the U.S. government on issues ranging from advertising to freedom of information requests, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. According to a disclosure...
The U.S. adult online population use the Internet more than TV and radio in a day, according to research firm eMarketer. A U.S. adult online user spends 2.91 hours on average online, another 2.78...
Using a mix of human/editorial curation and algorithy-driven methods, the news aggregation site Newser.com has been launched by Patrick Spain, CEO of Highbeam, Michael Wolff, Vanity Fair media columnist, and Caroline Miller, former editor-in-chief...