Global Watch

Bonnier Group’s newspaper Dagens Nyheter in Sweden started thinking seriously about its paid content strategy in 2015. Now, the daily has a hybrid of three different paywalls: The first, a meter where readers can access three articles a…

Within 24 hours of going into ‘campaign mode’ for a second Scottish independence referendum, Scottish daily The National claimed to have grown its subscriber numbers by up to 200. The pro-independence title launched its ‘10,000 Steps’…

Kristin Roberts was one of four regional editors and executive editor for politics at McClatchy, a publicly traded American publishing company based in California, operating 29 daily newspapers in 14 states and has an average weekday…

Blaise Gauquelin, the Central Europe correspondent for the French afternoon newspaper Le Monde, called his editor at the paper’s Paris headquarters to pass along something of interest: One of the two French businessmen who controlled the…

News Corp Australia, one of the largest media companies in the country that employs more than 8,000 staff nationwide and approximately 3,000 journalists, has launched a new agriculture magazine titled AgJournal, which is introduced under…

Surface Media, which publishes an avant-garde quarterly magazine and website covering design and architecture, is said to be close to finalising a deal to purchase Conde Nast’s W Magazine for around $7 million. Surface Media is headed by…

After 30 years Financial Times has moved back to Bracken House in London. The journalists returned to the business newspaper’s former home from the One Southwark Bridge building in London where they have worked since 1989. The newspaper…

Media giant Hearst is gearing up to buy a chunk of Tribune Publishing, the newspaper publisher that owns Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, New York Daily News and others. According to a source, Hearst, which in addition to glossy…

Condé Nast is going to put all its titles behind a paywall in the US by the end of this year. Internationally, however, the magazine publisher is taking smaller, more cautious steps towards reader revenue. According to a source, it has been…

Sophie Huet has been appointed as AFP Global Editor-in-Chief, replacing Phil Chetwynd, who was appointed Global News Director on January 9, 2019. Jean-Luc Bardet succeeds Sophie Huet as Deputy News Director. He will retain his current…

McClatchy Co’s bid to buy Tribune Publishing, owner of Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and Daily News, has reportedly broken down. Or at least the chance to talk exclusively has expired. According to a source, Tribune Publishing is now…

INMA (International News Media Association) has set the schedule of its World Congress of News Media in New York from May 13-17, 2019. The congress will have diverse topics such as Digital Platform Initiative in which a panel will focus on…

First Draft, an organisation dedicated to supporting journalists, academics and technologists, working to address challenges relating to trust and truth in the digital age, has opened offices in London and New York to combat information…

The New York Times has rolled out its first brand marketing campaign for the food vertical, NYT Cooking. The campaign started on January 22 and would run four weeks. It features 15-second and 30-second TV spots and will run across digital,…

WAN-IFRA’s Women In News (WIN) MENA launched its 10-day Media Management Training, in partnership with AUC GAPP Executive Education for 28 women media leaders from Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, kicking off activities for WIN MENA…

The Economist is now giving The New York Times a run for its money with the introduction of a new daily news podcast. However, unlike the immensely successful ‘The Daily’, The Economist’s podcast called ‘The Intelligence’ will focus on…

British newspaper houses, amid the political chaos of Brexit filling their column inches, are now having to ensure the country’s drive to leave the European Union doesn’t leave them without enough paper and ink. Publishers and paper…

Manchester Evening News has all geared up to introduce a Sunday edition next month to ‘reflect a city that never takes a day off’. The daily will go seven days a week for the first time with the first Sunday edition to be published on…

Globally, only 24 percent of people heard, seen or read about in newspaper, television, and radio news are women and only 19 percent of experts sourced in news stories are women (according to the Global Media Monitoring Project, 2015…

Digital media company Vox Media to acquire open-source publishing platform The Coral Project, which is housed within the Mozilla Foundation. The deal between the two digital media players underscores Vox Media’s push to sell software as a…