Global Watch

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…

WAN-IFRA, the International Publishers Association (IPA), and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) call on Pakistani authorities to retract plans to establish the ‘Pakistan Media Development Authority’ (PMDA) that risks placing…

Groupe Rossel La Voix, one of France’s leading media groups, took the strategic decision in 2021 to unify their subscription management system into a single one. Sponsored Content The group publishes 22 titles and manages more than 500,000…

Thirty Polish media have recently launched a ‘Journalists at the border’ campaign in response to a state of emergency which restricts journalists from accessing the length of the Polish-Belarusian border. The state of emergency, introduced…

Data-driven analysis of reader behaviour and editorial support are key building blocks of a successful digital subscription strategy, said leaders from South China Morning Post and Denník N. In August 2020, four years after the South China…

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. He spent his early journalistic career on The Scotsman and Edinburgh…

Media conglomerate Meredith has achieved an 11 percent hike to $902 million for its fiscal 2021 second-quarter YoY, and a 4 percent hike to $1.595 billion for its first half. That was driven, in large part, by digital ad sales. It has…

Mirror Online grew by one billion page views in 2020 but its editor Alison Phillips says they miss fun of newsroom. She revealed that the Mirror website drove one billion extra page views in 2020 compared to the year before, although this…

Vox Media has announced Swati Sharma, Managing Editor at The Atlantic, as the new Editor-in-Chief of Vox—the premier explanatory journalism network. Swati joins Vox during a moment of tremendous growth and will oversee its website’s…

Two leading magazines, Time and Sports Illustrated are launching paywalls for their digital offerings as the media industry looks to become less reliant on advertising dollars — an already struggling revenue stream hit hard by the COVID-19…

For 50 years, the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team has published hard-hitting investigative work. Its 2003 Pulitzer Prize winning series on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church was even turned into a Hollywood movie titled Spotlight in 2015 and…