(main photo courtesy of ProQuote) When German media equality organisation ProQuote looked more widely at management roles in media roles, the picture was not much better. The ‘Frauenmachtanteil’ – loosely translated as the ‘Women-power-factor’ – stood at 10.4%. That’s almost […]

Conventional newsroom wisdom is that it is nearly impossible to get a lot of traffic to a climate story.  The theory goes that this is because either the storytelling is weak or the content lacks relevance. And so it was […]

The changing times demand collaborative work of multiple departments converging to a single goal. The Wall Street Journal has made this possible through its MACU-focused approach. MACU stands for Members, Audiences, Customers and Users. For the WSJ team, MACU is […]

“We feel very, very fortunate, frankly, that we’re part of Hearst,” says Mike DeLuca, Group Publisher and President of Hearst Connecticut (HCMG), noting that the company has come through the pandemic without furloughs or layoffs. “Where many businesses right now […]

Photo Credit: Johnny Miller / africanDRONE for Code for Africa  With teams in 21 countries and major offices in Cape Town, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Lagos, Code for Africa (CfA) is the continent’s largest network of civic technology and […]

The conference, themed ‘Ideas for post-pandemic future,’ covered a gamut of news publishing topics, such as business transformation, sustainable business models and revenue ideas, newsroom leadership, diversity and inclusion, and innovation. Day 1 of the conference kicked off with a […]

In Switzerland that figure is 75 percent.  Ringier is an international multimedia company based in Zurich, Switzerland. Established in 1833, the family-owned brand employs 7,000 people in 20 countries, and owns more than 450 products and services.  In 2020, Ringier […]

On June 23, four media executives were elected to the WAN-IFRA Supervisory Board: Max Garrido, Managing Director of Corporacion Bermont in Spain who Chairs WAN-IFRA’s World Printers Forum; Masahiro Maruyama, President and CEO of The Mainichi Newspapers Group Holdings Co. […]

The culmination of a targeted campaign against the news organisation – that has seen the jailing of its owner, Jimmy Lai, the arrest of senior executives and editorial staff, newsroom raids, and a freeze of assets – brought the shutdown […]

During WAN-IFRA’s Virtual Newsroom Summit conference, Felicity Thomas, Head of Talent Development at the FT, shared the changes the company implemented to maintain motivation during the pandemic. “Once we realised at the beginning that things weren’t going back to normal, […]