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The 404 is a new Los Angeles Times project being billed as ‘a burner account’ for the legacy newspaper. Known informally as the meme team during its formation, the 404 is the first-ofits-kind collective in any major US newsroom. Unlike…

As a Colorado newspaper settled a libel lawsuit. Now, it’s facing accusations of self-censorship. Nestled at the bottom of Aspen Mountain in Colorado is a nearly one-acre parcel of land. It sold for $10 million last July. Just seven months…

Agence France-Presse (AFP) has developed a new training platform to share essential training in digital skills with reporters, building on the experience of its awardwinning digital investigations team. The platform provides 10 training…

Good news for sports fans who subscribe to The New York Times is that its allaccess digital bundle adds The Athletic for free access. The newspaper brought the sports news site for $550 million in cold hard cash back in January this year.…

The New York Times is bolstering its international investigations efforts with the addition of new reporters and an expanded commitment to global investigative journalism outside the United States. Investigative journalism has long been…

In December, the Asociación de Entidades Periodísticas Argentinas (Adepa) will celebrate its 60th Anniversary. Founded in 1962, Adepa is the most representative institution of Argentinean journalism, playing a fundamental role in the…

Guess what a digital news subscription might cost in 2072? First, of course, there’s the matter of inflation, a subject of renewed interest these days. In real dollars, $50 today is the equivalent of just $7.70 fifty years ago. In 1972, you…

Havas Media Group announced it entered into a global partnership with attention firm Lumen Research to create a raft of tools that enable planning, buying and media optimisation around attention metrics. The holding company plans to use…

When it w a s announced that Schibsted-owned PodMe had bought a few of Norway’s highest profile podcasts and was going to put them behind a paywall, some thought the company was making a big mistake. A lot of people were calling them…

In an effort to bolster local journalism The Hoffmann Family of Companies, a Florida-based group of businesses, announced it is acquiring Florida Media Group, LLC, publisher of nine Florida newspapers. The newspapers, which have a…

Two Kenyan journalists, Caroline Jerotich Kimutai and Agnes Kalekye Nguna, have been elected to the World Association of News Publishers' Board of Directors. Kimutai, the Managing Editor in charge of the digital division at the Standard…

With more than 540,000 subscribers to their digital and print products, Le Monde has among the highest number of subscribers of any daily news publication in France. Its name states, it’s really the world they’re interested in, and their…

Roles of journalism are set to be redeployed to bigger cities as a regional publisher prepares fresh launches on rival territory. Publisher National World in UK has confirmed a restructure affecting dozens of staff which will see the…

With demand for data of all types growing, The Washington Post has started a column called The Department of Data that will explore hidden data sets. Each Friday, the newspaper will dig into overlooked and underappreciated data sets in…

Reach, which also owns titles such as the Manchester Evening News and Liverpool Echo, has offered 3 percent production of the Daily Mirror, Daily Express and hundreds of local newspapers could be disrupted by strike action after their…

Time Out London distributed its last London print copies on June 23. The final edition leads on a ‘London Rising’ theme and featured a send-off column from London mayor Sadiq Khan. The magazine will continue to publish online – including…

Thomson Reuters Corp (TRI.TO) has named Paul Bascobert as President of Reuters News, turning to a tech and media veteran to drive growth at the 171-year-old news organization. Paul, 58, is a former CEO of US print giant Gannett Co Inc…

I ndependent paper the Great Central Gazette will cover Leicester from early next year, initially as a digital project with a print launch mooted for 2024. The Gazette will be run by a team of three and funded by paying members in a model…

Repost is a new independent digital newspaper in Russian, launched recently and supported via a non-profit foundation by Amedia in Norway and Bonnier News in Sweden. Repost aims to reach a young audience inside Russia, and international…

The Economist had its most successful year financially since 2016. Last year with profit up and record revenue, the magazine and digital publisher said subscriber numbers were ‘robust’, totaling 1,185,000 despite a ‘sluggish’ start to the…