The Manchester Evening News has become the first Reach title to launch a paid-for premium membership offering.The MEN’s paid-for app offers no “adverts, pop-ups or distractions”, the ability to listen to articles instead of reading them using a text-to-speech...
The fate of the country’s news industry became more precarious Thursday after Google joined Meta in preparing to block all Canadian news content from its platforms in retaliation for Ottawa’s recently passed online news bill.Google announced that for users...
Once largely shunned for news, many of the leading UK and US news publishers have rapidly increased their followings on Instagram according to an updated Press Gazette analysis. Among the newsbrands we looked at, US-based Healthline Media, which publishes Medical...
SEOUL, South Korea — For two months, six journalists and media literacy trainers from Maldita.es — a Madrid, Spain-based nonprofit fact-checking platform — traveled to 20 rural towns across Spain, teaching older people media literacy and online safety skills. Polling...
Reuters parent company Thomson Reuters has acquired Imagen, a digital content asset management company, for an undisclosed sum.Imagen owns video distribution platform Screenocean and runs digital content libraries serving clients including Premier League football and Major League Baseball. The...
Global news publisher the Associated Press (AP) launched a newly redesigned version of its website Tuesday, part of a broader effort from the news outlet to diversify its revenue by attracting more direct advertising.The publisher currently generates roughly 80%...
The list of policies and laws Canada has introduced to boost its ailing news industry is still growing. New entrants include the Online News Act, passed last week, that prompted Facebook to vow to block news on its platforms...
Three quarters of US news audiences prefer international news produced by local reporters, according to recent research commissioned by Global Press (GP).GP is an independent, non-profit newsroom that has 37 news bureaus spread across 12 countries, including in Asia,...
The New York Times is trying out a new way to boost subscriptions and engagement to its paywalled NYT Cooking recipe platform. With a simple text featuring an emoji, the publisher is dishing out 150 recipes for free.From June...
In recent months, the signs and portents have been accumulating with increasing speed. Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification...
