Could COVID-19 kill the traditional newsroom? Amid the remote work environment sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, Tribune Publishing is closing the offices of five of its newspapers, NBC News reports. They include the Daily News in New...
Newsroom employees at Gannett newspapers around the country recently lost their jobs in a major round of layoffs. Rich Jackson, senior executive editor of the Bloomington, Indiana, Herald-Times lost his home as well—and started the...
As the COVID-19 crisis intensified in recent weeks, European news publishers witnessed an unheard-of surge in demand for journalism that is relevant, fact-based, and trusted. As traffic grew and triple-digit increases in digital...
Get a CEO talking about his or her news media company in today’s COVID-19 environment, and you can see the checkdowns in their eyes: Are my employees and customers safe? Can my company function remotely? What does the advertising...
Local news media companies are in a unique position to rescue small, independently own businesses — notably restaurants — in today’s COVID-19 crisis by creating hubs connecting them to their readership bases. This doesn’t necessarily...
There has never been a documented incident whereby the COVID-19 virus has been transmitted from a print newspaper, print magazine, print letter, or print package, according to the world’s top doctors and scientists. In recent days, the...
News publishers expect double-digit declines in advertising through year’s end as a result of the coronavirus impact, according to an informal survey of INMA member media companies late last week. Meanwhile, publishers are getting a...
Having witnessed the news industry’s responses to mild recessions, short-lived epidemics, shocking terrorist attacks, and stomach-churning economic meltdowns over the past 30 years, there are at least five core truisms that I want to...
Working from home is stifling my creativity and my motivation to get things done. I need people around me to feed off their energy. It’s either numbingly quiet when I’m working in isolation or massively distracting when I have a guest....
Elevating the digital subscriptions growth path for local and mid-sized European news publishers is the focus of a Google News Initiative (GNI) Subscriptions Lab being created in 2020 in partnership with FT Strategies and the...
The Salt Lake Tribune hopes its new status as a nonprofit will ensure its long-term viability in an industry in crisis — and other newspapers suffering amid the same declines in advertising and circulation revenues are expected to watch...
Over six weeks in late 2017, I visited news publishers in 13 cities in the South Pacific, Latin America, Europe, and North America. These were disparate publishers with little in common other than their membership in the International...
Two of the country's largest newspaper companies have agreed to combine in the latest media deal driven by the industry's struggles with a decline in printed editions. GateHouse Media, a chain backed by an investment firm, is buying USA...
Earlier this month, the CEOs of Schibsted’s two leading titles in Sweden blasted Apple for not allowing them to build a relationship with readers via their app store, using its dominant position to impose an “Apple tax” and withholding...
Kunal Gupta addressed 50 people at an advertising seminar as part of last week’s INMA World Congress of News Media, nestled in the new hip offices of the USA Today Network in the northern part of Times Square in New York. His message was...
In the long history of print newspapers and magazines, we became trained to hit circulation targets by any means necessary: discounts, giveaways, promotions. It was all about delivering the biggest number to advertisers since that was...
With all of the conferences, reports, and case studies on digital subscriptions by INMA in the past year, I am struck by how similar the story arc of our industry remains: There is no progress on digital subscriptions without a total...
Last week’s INMA Media Subscriptions Summit in London confirmed for me two things: There is genuine passion rising for understanding the new economics of content, yet there are dozens of ways paid models can be structured and...
In rolling out the Google News Initiative yesterday in New York, it was easy to get lost in the hundreds of millions of dollars pledged to support digital journalism or the laundry list of a dozen products that make up the initiative. ...
The Los Angeles Times is on the verge of a sale that would take it from its Chicago-based parent company and put it in the hands of a local billionaire doctor, a person with knowledge of the deal tells the AP . Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is...
A chairman of a newspaper publishing company facing allegations of assault related to at least four women admits he spanked a female employee, but says he did so with a doctor's approval. H. Brandt Ayers—the former publisher of Alabama's...
Newspaper publisher Tronc has acquired the New York Daily News , the storied tabloid that won a Pulitzer Prize this year but has been buffeted by the changing media environment. Chicago-based Tronc Inc., the publisher of the Los Angeles...
HONG KONG — Two brothers of an American journalist who United States lawmakers say were jailed by China in retaliation for his reporting on ethnic tensions in the country’s Xinjiang region have been freed, the...
(CNN)Two men have been sentenced to death for their role in the 2013 murder of Ahmed Rajib Haider, a secular blogger from Bangladesh. A further five, including Mufti Jashimuddin Rahmani, a senior figure in the Ansarullah Bangla militant...
Nexstar Broadcasting Group Inc. will finalize the details of a proposal to acquire Media General Inc. as soon as today, people with knowledge of the matter said, triggering a window for rival Meredith Corp. to say it intends to make a...
A French journalist has been forced to leave China after the government said it would not renew her press credentials for the new year in response to a critical report on Beijing's policies in the troubled western region of Xinjiang....
Brian Krebs has made a lot of enemies. He's a famed cybersecurity journalist who formerly worked for The Washington Post, and now breaks stories on his blog, KrebsOnSecurity. But his reporting on hacking and the dark...
The Telegraph has been reprimanded by the advertising watchdog for failing to adequately label an online advertorial for Michelin tyres. The Advertising Standards Authority said the article and video on Telegraph.co.uk, which...
Free Basics, Facebook’s controversial service that provides users with free access to select websites on mobile, is in trouble in a yet another country. On Wednesday, the service was shut down in Egypt by authorities,...
It’s hard to keep score when the rules keep changing in the middle of the game. It’s even harder when the playing field keeps expanding so you’re not just competing against one team, but endless newcomers....
The problems began about 0700 GMT and meant visitors to the site saw an error message rather than webpages. Sources within the BBC said the sites were offline thanks to what is known as a "distributed denial of service"...
BH Media Group has acquired The Free Lance-Star newspaper, Fredericksburg.com and Print Innovators, all located in Fredericksburg, Va., from Sandton Capital Partners. Dirks, Van Essen & Murray, a merger and acquisition firm based in...
In August of 2013, Olga Ruiz returned from a refreshing summer vacation ready to start her 16th season on the COPE radio network in Barcelona. But on her arrival, the managers told her and her team that they were being...
As a science journalist, a lot of your time is spent reporting on new studies, natural phenomena and how research may affect our lives. But there is another key piece to science, and that is the people who produce it. When we ignore...
If you’re a brand looking for Web cred, you can’t go wrong with money, memes and messaging. That’s why marketers will be looking at a few apps and sites that remain under the mainstream radar, places...
Late in 2014, I was abruptly pardoned and freed from Evin prison in northern Tehran. In November 2008, I had been sentenced to nearly 20 years in jail, mostly over my web activities, and thought I would end up spending most of my life in...
LONDON — It was a terrible year for journalists in Europe. Attacks by Islamic militants, unjustified arrests, assaults, harassment, threats and tougher legal restrictions made it harder for editors, reporters and...
Venezuela hasn't just run out of toilet paper —it's run out of other kinds of paper too, and that's a big problem for the country's newspaper industry. Five papers have already shut down, and more than half of the country's local papers...
Jeff Bezos gave his first interview since buying the Washington Post today, and he gave it to, well, the Washington Post . Here are some highlights: "We've had three big ideas at Amazon," Bezos explains: "Put the customer first. Invent....