BBC Online chief Neil McIntosh becomes The Scotsman editor
Neil who worked as Managing Editor of BBC Online and previously held roles on The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian has announced as a new editor of The Scotland. […]
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When newspapers sink across Chicago suburbs one local non-profit newsroom emerges
Since March 2020, The Tow Center in Chicago has tracked newsroom cutbacks carried out during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. At least 66 outlets have permanently closed their doors,
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The New York Times to test Wirecutter as subscription product
The New York Times is working on building a subscription product for its consumer reviews site Wirecutter. Currently, the newspaper earns affiliate revenue when a reader purchases a product reviewed
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Taboola and Outbrain cancel their $850 million merger
Online advertising is a game of scale, but one attempt to consolidate two competitors to better take on Google and Facebook has fallen apart. Taboola and Outbrain, startups that each
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Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima wins Golden Pen of Freedom Award
The Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of WAN-IFRA, has been awarded to Colombian journalist, Jineth Bedoya Lima. The award, made virtually due to current COVID-19 restrictions,
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Taiwan to host World News Media Congress 2021 and reschedules Zaragoza to 2022
Due to continued uncertainties and travel constraints around the COVID-19 pandemic, WAN-IFRA has called off the World News Media Congress, which was initially planned for Zaragoza, Spain, in September 2020.
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South Korean news outlets chase digital dream
When The New York Times was looking to relocate some of its operations out of Hong Kong earlier this year, the U.S. media heavyweight chose Seoul, citing among other reasons
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The Financial Times receives biggest COVID-19 sales recovery
The Financial Times saw both the biggest Covid-19 sales recovery among the UK’s national newspapers and the biggest year-on-year decline in August, according to the latest ABC figures. Although the
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French daily Le Parisien doubles its digital subscribers
In the past year, France’s Le Parisien has doubled both its numbers of digital subscribers and its revenues from digital subscriptions largely through an effort to produce far more ‘premium’
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The New York Times says 100m will pay for online news by 2030
The New York Times chief Meredith Kopit Levien has predicted that 100m people will have digital English-language news subscriptions in ten years’ time. Meredith, who took over from Mark Thompson