Global Watch

World News Media Congress 2019, which was held from June 1-3 at Glasgow, hosted Camila Jimenez Villa, CEO & Co-Founder, The Immigrant (USA), who revealed the most of a new opportunity. In today’s all-out streaming war, where platforms…

For some advertisers, appearing next to a negative news article that describes a nasty terrorist attack or leans too much to one side of a polarizing political debate, will always be a hard no. But Prisa Media, the Spanish and…

The Siebold Company (TSC) has been appointed as the authorised agency of QIPC-EAE in the Caribbean and Canada. TSC is in full of praise for QIPC’s state-of-the-art and register control systems and EAE’s press control systems. TSC has a…

TIME magazine’s digital staffers are seeking to unionise, breaking down a barrier at the organisation between print and digital wings of the publication. The magazine’s print employees have been unionised for 80 years through the NewsGuild,…

Siegener Zeitung, founded in 1823, is the first newspaper house to start production with a new GEOMAN e:line. The press was designed to the newspaper’s individual needs and economics. With numerous configurations available, the GEOMAN…

Summer is fleeting, as is the summer newsletter of The New York Times. It is returning for its second year. In the intervening winter months, the newspaper surveyed readers and applied what they learned to the newsletter’s second summer —…

While many leading US publishers like BuzzFeed and Huffington Post have been forced to scale back international operations lately, digital media publisher PopSugar is on a growth spurt in the UK. The women’s lifestyle publisher has just…

According to the latest emma (Enhanced Media Metrics Australia) data, over 10 million Australians (10.1 million), or more than half the country’s population (54 percent), read both print and digital news media. In total, digital news media…

The Boston Globe, a local daily founded and based in Boston (Massachusetts), reached a milestone when the number of its digital subscribers surpassed that of its weekday print subscribers for the first time. It marked the only traditional,…

GateHouse Media has agreed to acquire the daily New Jersey Herald from family-owned Quincy Media. Headquartered in Perinton (New York), GateHouse Media is a holding company for New Media Investment Group and one of the largest publishers of…

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…