The rise of social media signaled the promise of a new public square, facilitating more open debate and diverse voices. With these new opportunities for digital participation also came a host of new challenges, including online trolling, disinformation, and...
America’s local journalists are burned out. It’s not just some of them — it’s the majority of them. And women and young people are more likely to endure the psychological phenomenon than men and older reporters.Burnout is often regarded...
Subscriptions are far and away the most consistent source of revenue for newspapers. However, to grow their subscriber numbers, sometimes they need to throw away consistency in favor of a more experimental approach.The Independent has been a digital-only title...
Remember Ozy? The digital media site that claimed it had “50 million monthly unique users” and “25 million subscribers,” when it had, ahem, many fewer than that? The one allegedly comfortable enough with fraudulent behavior to invent a fake...
The Sydney Morning Herald and its sister title The Age, under the Nine Entertainment umbrella, won an epic defamation case taken by a celebrated Australian war hero, but it was a case which highlights the risks of legal dangers to journalism and the cost...
About five years ago, Marium Chaudhry, an executive producer at Pakistan’s top news channel, decided to create a start-up aimed at younger people.Her idea for this came about during Pakistan’s 2018 election cycle, when Chaudhry discovered that while the...
Newsrooms have been using artificial intelligence for years to do tasks like automation, transcription or content personalisation. But it is the event of generative AI like ChatGPT, that reignited the conversation around opportunities, risks and ethics.Generative AI will disrupt...
For GIJN’s continuing series on journalists’ favorite tools, we spoke with Jimmy Alvarado, an El Salvador-based investigative reporter who has dedicated his career to exposing corruption. Alvarado works for El Faro, one of the leading journalism organizations in Central...
America’s local journalists are burned out. It’s not just some of them — it’s the majority of them. And women and young people are more likely to endure the psychological phenomenon than men and older reporters.Burnout is often regarded...
When newspapers began failing as businesses, a number of them were bought by billionaires. That provided a lifeline, but, it was pretty widely said, also a risk: What if the billionaires tired of the money they were losing, and...
