Call it “finger food” content or “fast food” news – publishing for smartphones offers new opportunities for newspaper companies, and the International Newsroom Summit, to be held in London in April, will provide news executives with the latest strategies for providing compelling news to ever-present portable devices.
The New York Times announced today the launch of its international news supplement in Dnevni Avaz in Bosnia and La Prensa Gráfica in El Salvador. The two publications join a global network of newspapers in 29 countries that carry The New York Times international weekly, first introduced in 2002.
Adam Smith, who writes the influential “This Year, Next Year” research series for Group M, caused a stir at the end of last year when he revised his advertising forecast upwards for the first time in 18 months.
When it comes to success on the web, more newspapers are focusing on creating loyal audiences, rather than hoping that success will come simply from increasing traffic through the search engines and news aggregators.
The leading annual event of the newspaper and media industry returns to the media metropolis on the banks of the Danube
With traditional business models for news companies under pressure, the hunt is on for alternative ways to pay for quality journalism. The World Editors Forum, to be held in Beirut, Lebanon, in June, is dedicating a session to these alternative funding models.
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has condemned the closure of the Moroccan newsmagazine Le Journal Hebdomadaire and the apparent use of the judicial system to silence an independent publication.
