Global Watch

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…

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…

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…

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…

Recently the fifth edition of Penny Abernathy’s report on local news in the US reveals that 360 more newspapers, almost all of them weeklies, have closed since 2019. That is on top of the 2,500 closures since 2004 which was documented in…

Since May last year till date, Metro and Financial Times are the only national newspapers in the UK to grow their print readerships. Metro had an average free distribution of 1,074,594 in May, staying steady month-on-month but growing by 17…

On the World News Day, WAN-IFRA and Temasek Foundation have launched a new programme based on strengthening climate change journalism. Targeting journalists and editors from Asia, the training programme will build the capability of…

JoomBoos, owned by Croatia’s top media outlet 24sata, is the country’s most-watched YouTube channel catering to Generations Z and Alpha. Matej Lončarić, Director of Video Operations and media brands JoomBoos & miss7, explained how…

The launch of the Malawi Media Freedom Committee (MFC) underlines the importance of a free press in holding power to account. On October 14, a digital room was full of media professionals waiting for the big announcement: the launch of the…

American magazine and multi-platform publisher The Atlantic jumps on the paid newsletter bandwagon with nine new emails for subscribers. They are rolling out subscriber-only newsletters, editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg announced, bringing…

Amedia, Norway’s largest publisher of local news titles, reaches about two million daily readers, of which 660,000 are paying subscribers. The company launched its new and improved digital multi-subscription offering, +Alt, in May 2020 with…

The media group Le Télégramme, based in Morlaix - Brittany (France), has decided in favour of the future-oriented technology of the COLORMAN e:line with its comprehensive automation equipment ‘autoprint’ and placed an order with manroland…

Maintaining print revenues while additionally building digital audience, Tim Robinson, managing editor of JPIMedia in the United Kingdom, has lots of reasons to still be optimistic about print (as well as digital). It’s all about…

With four national news titles in Belgium reaching 2.1 million people a day, Mediahuis is in the same position as many publishers: as print declines, its digital subscriber base is growing. And, as that continues, digital subscriptions have…