By Anu Nathan These were the questions addressed by the presenters in the Asian Media Leaders Summit session titled ‘The Newsroom in 2022 and beyond – Hybrid Newsrooms’ moderated by Andrea Tan – Asia Pacific Team Leader, Daybreak Bloomberg News, […]

Above image: SPH Media Trust Managing Editor Murali Subramaniam described the financial pressures faced by the listed company that resulted in it decoupling its media assets from its property assets. By Lee Kah Whye “That’s the role that high quality […]

By Kavita Chandran Keiko Yamamoto, a senior commentator for NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) on gender equality, said women made up barely 5 percent of  newsrooms in Japan when she started her career 27 years ago. Now, 20 percent of newsrooms […]

By Pontsho Pilane  Viewfinder – founded by Daneel Knoetze three years ago, and which now has a staff complement of three – is an accountability journalism project focused on exposing institutional wrongdoing that disproportionately affects marginalised or vulnerable people. The […]

“From 2015 until now, we have had a complete transformation in our finances. The Guardian in 2015 lost 85 million pounds (approximately 100 million euros), and we are now making profit. So from minus 85 million to profit as a […]

In the interview below, Michel Helou, Executive Director of L’Orient-Le Jour, talks about the origins and results of the company’s digital transformation strategy, which is bringing in readers and revenue, and how the French-language media company sees a future in […]

As anyone working in the news industry today knows, publishers face numerous challenges across a number of areas from editorial concerns to trying to transition businesses from print to digital and grow revenues, but at the heart of most of […]

For 2023, The Globe and Mail is forecasting a C$30 million (€ 22 million approximately) increase in its overall revenue compared to pre-COVID days – C$30 million better than it was two years ago for print and digital.  G&M Publisher […]

By Kavita Chandran “One has to bring in logical thinking while being passionate,” said Koreel Lahiri, Director of Media Development Investment Fund (South Asia). Lahiri has more than 15 years of experience in media investing and has served in senior […]

Esther Ng, The Star’s Chief Content Officer, is using her role as chair of the World Editors Forum Asia Chapter to record the bias that exists in different countries in the region, noting their different socio-economic and cultural contexts. “It […]