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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 as CEO of the NYT this month, believes that…

Good news is that that independent South Australian newspaper The Border Watch is coming back after closing last month. A source announces that it will resume printing in October, with former editor Brett Kennedy back in the chair as…

After participating in Facebook’s Video Accelerator programme, news publishers in APAC are seeing tangible business results. Those attending Facebook’s 2019 Video Accelerator have reported an 82 percent increase in overall metrics…

Over the last two years, The Economist has narrowed its focus on what it publishes to LinkedIn. It has been reaping the benefits by turning those users into subscribers. After switching gears on its content strategy — starting narrow to…

As the future of print is uncertain, finding new opportunities in outside printing will be a key part of survival for many of our newspaper operations. Many continue to struggle through the financial challenges brought on by COVID-19. Prior…

By bringing together a cross-functional team and empowering them to make quick decisions, German publishing group Funke Mediengruppe has generated a 45 percent uplift in paid subscriptions in three months and grew newsletter subscriptions…

When school year started during the coronavirus pandemic in the US, working parents are scrambling to juggle their own remote work and their children’s schooling plans on top of general family care. More and more companies are looking to…

The Providence Journal, Telegram & Gazette (Worcester) and a handful of other newspapers owned by Gannett are offering free multimedia advertising packages to aid local businesses hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Customer Assistance…

With teenagers stuck at home thanks to the COVID-19, The New York Times offered access to its journalism — with the hope of converting some into regular readers and, eventually, subscribers. America’s high school students are mostly sitting…

Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter saw dramatic growth in traffic and digital subscriptions amid the COVID-19 crisis. The newspaper conducted webinar in which Martin Jönsson, Head of Editorial Development at Dagens Nyheter, detailed how the…

Hearst Communications, often referred to simply as Hearst, is a mass media and business information conglomerate based in the Hearst Tower in New York. The company informed publishers and editors in a conference call that the company is…

Being a big new development for news organisations, France’s competition authority has ordered Google to negotiate payments with news publishers and news agencies to display extracts on its news, search and discovery pages. According to…

The Washington Post has announced that they have joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), allowing the newspaper to participate in international discussions that ultimately determine standards that help shape digital business for years…

The news industry worked under extraordinary conditions to keep people informed during the COVID-19 pandemic. At a time when journalism is needed more than ever, ad revenues are declining due to the economic impact of the virus. Local…

GWS Printing Systems (GWS), the manroland GOSS subsidiary for press relocations and used equipment, just finished a successful relocation project of a commercial LITHOMAN press in the Netherlands in record time. In the course of certain…

News Media Canada has announced the approval of an additional 63 journalists at 53 host news organizations under the Government of Canada’s Local Journalism Initiative. This second round of journalists brings the total number of Local…

Glasgow Times is launching a new dedicated service for the elderly that will see free copies of the paper delivered to care homes across the city. With the UK in COVID-18 lockdown and many people separated from their loved ones the…

Condé Nast has announced the launch of Vogue Singapore, the brand’s 27th edition. Vogue Singapore will launch in the autumn of this year with an English-language print issue, a website and presences on all relevant social platforms. It will…

When a group of UCLA students met in 1969 with an idea to initiate a publication that would address issues facing the Asian American community, even the term ‘Asian-American’ was considered revolutionary. It had only just entered the…

The Mountain Messenger, California’s oldest weekly newspaper, was on the verge of folding, has been saved with an eleventh-hour bid to buy it. Published in Downieville, the weekly has been printing every week since 1853. Mark Twain even…