With the BBC celebrating its centenary this year, the world’s oldest and most respected public service broadcaster should be in a celebratory mood, but it doesn’t feel like it, especially to its staff. A matter of months after Nadine...
Local news outlets across the U.S. are struggling to bring in advertising and subscription revenue, which pays for the reporting, editing and production of their articles. It’s not a new problem, but with fewer and fewer journalism jobs as a result, a...
The Economist’s monthly podcast listeners are now more than double its print subscriber base – and the audio products are paying their way despite being outside the publication’s paywall.
Origen: Economist podcasts reach 3m people a month - a paywall...
When the Liberal federal government announced its intention to support Canada’s news industry, it said it wanted to sustain local journalism, support innovation in news and ensure diversity in the news industry.
Origen: Opinion: Canada’s Online News Act needs to...
Good Tuesday morning. Welcome back after the long Memorial Day weekend. To get started today, here’s a look at some of the notable journalism you might have missed over the past few days.
Origen: Catching up with notable journalism after...
This war, like any war, has no shortage of heroes: not only the Ukrainian recruits fighting valiantly against a far larger Russian military, but also journalists, Ukrainian and foreign, covering the war at great personal risk. These correspondents deserve...
You’ll be hearing a lot about Watergate in the next several weeks, as the 50th anniversary of the infamous June 17, 1972, burglary at the Democratic National Committee headquarters approaches. There will be documentaries, cable-news debates, the finale of...
Publishers reported a 500% increase in digital audio revenue in the first quarter of 2022, according to the Digital Publishers’ Revenue Index (DPRI).Among the sample of 12 publishers included in the report, which was produced by the Association of...
The Independent’s new app aims to use its combined subscription and ad revenue model to help the newspaper hit four million registered users by the end of 2022.The Independent used to have two separate apps – Independent Daily Edition...
When Mary Walter-Brown founded the News Revenue Hub in November 2016, few people in the media industry would have bet on a financially sustainable future for non-profit local publishers.Nearly six years on, the News Revenue Hub – born out...
