July Aug 20

Online advertising is a game of scale, but one attempt to consolidate two competitors to better take on Google and Facebook has fallen apart. Taboola and Outbrain, startups that each provide publishers with ad-based content recommendation…

The Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of WAN-IFRA, has been awarded to Colombian journalist, Jineth Bedoya Lima. The award, made virtually due to current COVID-19 restrictions, recognises ‘Ms Bedoya Lima’s dedication to…

Due to continued uncertainties and travel constraints around the COVID-19 pandemic, WAN-IFRA has called off the World News Media Congress, which was initially planned for Zaragoza, Spain, in September 2020. Meanwhile, the association has…

When The New York Times was looking to relocate some of its operations out of Hong Kong earlier this year, the U.S. media heavyweight chose Seoul, citing among other reasons the freedom of South Korea’s press. But while the NYT comes…

The Financial Times saw both the biggest Covid-19 sales recovery among the UK’s national newspapers and the biggest year-on-year decline in August, according to the latest ABC figures. Although the newspaper grew its average sales by 9…

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Messe Düsseldorf has reduced the duration of the next year’s drupa 2021 from 11 to 9 days. The show was earlier scheduled to be held from April 20-30. The decision to shorten the show has been made as a result of…

India Today Group has shut the print edition of Mail Today. Informing employees about the decision, Aroon Purie, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief of the India Today Group in an internal mail announced that the group entered the newspaper…

The RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group has announced an agreement with Fortune Media Group, the publishers of Fortune magazine, to publish Fortune in India. Fortune is one of the great global media brands. It has been a CEO must-read for nearly a…

Audience research body Media Research Users Council (MRUC) has suspended the production and publication of its IRS 2020 readership survey, according to media reports. The council has reportedly informed its subscribers that it will refund…

In the past year, France’s Le Parisien has doubled both its numbers of digital subscribers and its revenues from digital subscriptions largely through an effort to produce far more ‘premium’ articles that are for subscribers only. Le…