Social media usage, across platforms, spiked during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Industry and governments alike sought to use these social networks to promote public health messages, as well as combat misinformation related to the crisis. Damian Radcliffe […]

Image: Yolanda Veiga, Editor of Vivir In February 2020, Spanish newspaper group Vocento, which owns one national newspaper and 11 regional titles, launched a new section focused on lifestyle and health content called Vivir, which they describe as “a meeting […]

The team of 20 sits at the intersection of BBC News, BBC R&D, Digital Products and CPW Engineering. It is an incubation hub, with a mix of editorial, software development, product and design roles, which hands over ideas to other […]

This year, World News Day will highlight the critical importance of journalism in providing trustworthy information about the future of our planet and its people. World News Day’s organizers, The Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) and the World Editors Forum (WEF), […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced consumers to have a more direct relationship with media and ecommerce, concentrating on the undeniable revenue generating potential of affiliate programmes for news publishers.  While advertising revenues crashed in 2020, ecommerce revenues, through affiliate programmes, […]

In the past year, the company increased year-end digital subscribers by 31 percent, decreased average weekly churn by 9 percent, and “most importantly, we increased our average weekly subscriber revenue by 67 percent,” said Darya Ushakova, Tribune’s Digital Marketing Director. […]

The latest podcast episode from the QUEST project looks at the news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. The health crisis has been an extraordinary period for science journalists, and reporting the facts and establishing the truth about the unfolding pandemic […]

Without robust audience research, questions about who the audience is and what it needs tend to be answered on hierarchy or power within the organisation, or based on assumptions. That is not good enough in news organisations that are increasingly […]

The collection of handbooks, checklists, guides and other materials help journalists writing about science strengthen their skill sets, build their expertise and create stronger engagement with their audience. The resources included in the QUEST journalism toolkit are available for free at […]

These efforts include a vigorous onboarding programme for new subscribers throughout their first 100 days to encourage them to keep coming back to the DN site and make them aware of all the benefits of subscribing, including free access for […]