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A fresh approach to understanding and engaging arts and culture audience boosts subscription

2024-04-24. Rather than viewing their arts and culture readers as a niche segment, the Hamburger Abendblatt has embraced the idea that this audience represents a significant and valuable part of their overall readership. By shifting their mindset, they’ve been able to develop targeted strategies to better serve and convert these readers into loyal subscribers.

‘AI is a mean, not a goal’ – Bonnier’s Pia Rehnquist on integrating AI into your local news strategy

2024-04-19. Over the course of her 25-year career in media, Swedish journalist Pia Rehnquist has held various roles. Now five months into her new role as Business Area Manager of Bonnier News Local, she spoke to us about keeping the newsroom sustainable amid economic downturns, AI and digital disruptors, in our latest EDITOR TO EDITOR interview.

Living legacies: WAN-IFRA’s Golden Pen of Freedom laureates

2024-04-19. Arrested, jailed, killed, forced into exile, released with restrictions… each year, WAN-IFRA’s Golden Pen of Freedom Award symbolises the challenges faced by all too many journalists throughout their careers – and lives…

Norway’s VG finding success with six AI-related newsroom tools

2024-04-17. Verdens Gang (VG), one of Norway’s premier news outlets, is using AI to help enhance its newsroom productivity. With a team of seven developers, VG is experimenting with various AI-driven tools built to meet the needs of the newsroom.

South Africa’s Daily Maverick shuts down for 24 hours to flag global crisis in journalism

2024-04-15. South Africa’s membership-based Daily Maverick has shut down for a day – 15 April – to bring urgent attention to the emergency facing journalism around the world. It warns that the market failure has put independent journalism at risk of collapse, with effects that will be catastrophic.

How can David stand up to Goliath? Anti-SLAPPs conference in Poland

2024-04-14. From April 25th to 26th, Warsaw will host an international conference addressing SLAPPs, organised by Agora, ARTICLE 19 Europe, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Prague Civil Society Center, and Watchdog Poland. The objective is  to devise strategies to combat legal harassment against public watchdogs who champion public interests.

Lessons from newsrooms who have, and are, prepping for ‘AI Elections’

2024-04-05. THE Election Year. The Year of AI elections. With over 60 countries heading to the polls this year, the world may look a little – or a lot – different by the end of 2024. How are newsrooms managing coverage and the significant challenge to sort fact from fiction?

‘I get quite irritated when people say that the news or journalism is dying,’ News24’s Adriaan Basson

2024-04-05. As South Africans gear up for the seventh democratic elections in 30 years on 29 May, Adriaan Basson, editor-in-chief of one of the country’s largest newsrooms, shares his deepest concerns, in our latest EDITOR TO EDITOR interview.

ACOS Alliance and WAN-IFRA launch the Editor Safety Hub

2024-04-04. The Hub launches with ‘The Fundamentals of Safe Commissioning’, a self-paced training course that equips editors with the skills they need to safely commission journalistic work, support the safety of freelancers they work with, and embed a culture of safety within their everyday practice.

Podcast – Constant vigilance: Press freedom in the Americas

2024-04-03. Declining trust, deepening polarisation, challenges to the business model, and an environment increasingly hostile to journalists: across the Americas, media face growing threats despite their vital watchdog role in upholding increasingly fragile democratic institutions.