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‘The more you read, the less you churn,’ and other lessons from Norway’s Amedia

2023-11-16. Amedia publishes more than 80 regional newspapers across Norway, but for nearly four years now, digital has been their biggest subscription product.

AI and robot writer ‘Klara’ key to Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Medien’s tech future as it switches off its presses

2023-11-10. German regional news publisher owned by DuMont has pivoted to being a media and tech company and is using AI and Natural Language Processing tools for newsroom tasks, including content generation, with significant early results.

DC Thomson: New focus on communities brings big gains in paying digital subscribers

2023-11-08. Four years ago, Scottish publisher DC Thomson had fewer than 1,000 paying digital-only subscribers. Today, they have more than 30,000. This is the story of how they did it.

Listen up: Podcasts becoming increasingly important for Politiken

2023-11-02. “We see that people who listen to our podcasts actually stay longer on the articles as well, so this is an area we want to focus more on,” says Amalie Kestler, Managing Editor-in-Chief of Politiken, Denmark’s largest newspaper.

The efforts behind Clarín’s ‘Best Digital Subscription Initiative’ win

2023-11-01. Clarín launched its registration system in 2015. This laid the foundation for launching a digital subscription model in April 2017, making it the first news publisher in Argentina to do so. As of July 2023, the company has more than 650,000 paid subscriptions.

Focus on audiences, revenue and AI – WAN-IFRA and Google News Initiative launch new round of Table Stakes Europe

2023-10-24. WAN-IFRA is launching the fifth edition of Table Stakes Europe in partnership with the Google News Initiative. This performance-driven programme, focused on change management, is a collaboration with Table Stakes architect Doug Smith. The programme will welcome 16 European news enterprises participating in 2024.

How The Conversation is boosting engagement with an aim of driving donations

2023-10-20. “Our content is why people come to us. Anything we can do to make more valuable content will lead to more engagement and retention, and for us, donations as well,” says Khalil Cassimally, Head of Audience Insights for The Conversation.

World Press Trends preview: ‘Cautious optimism’ revealed in survey

2023-10-17. Despite the numerous challenges and uncertainties facing the news media industry, more than half of news executives surveyed in our annual World Press Trends Outlook research said they are upbeat about their companies’ business prospects for the foreseeable future.

WAN-IFRA joins an international alliance to build a trusted European media data space.

2023-10-12. WAN-IFRA (The World Association of News Publishers) announced its partnership with TEMS, a consortium of forty-three organisations representing hundreds of stakeholders from fourteen countries in the European cultural and creative sectors. The TEMS consortium presents the biggest European initiative to create a data space ecosystem in the media sector.

AI use cases: How genAI summaries are boosting Daily Maverick’s readership

2023-09-29. Examples of how news organisations are employing generative AI are emerging daily and news summaries offer a useful, relatively non-contentious entry point. Here’s how South Africa’s Daily Maverick went about offering readers short versions of their top stories.