Last month, The New York Times released new guidelines around the way its reporters use Twitter.Twitter was taking up too much of journalists’ time, the Times said. It was also driving harassment and abuse, and bad tweets harm the...
Canada’s news publishers are braced for an aggressive response to their government’s plan to make Google and Meta pay for news content.Justin Trudeau’s government laid out the details of its Online News Act last month. Canada now looks set...
LAST WEEK, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, reported its quarterly financial results, noting that while the number of Facebook users increased during the first months of this year, the company’s revenues grew at the slowest rate since Facebook...
The BBC has a message for those looking to scrap the license fee the public broadcaster relies on: You’d miss us if we went away.To prove its point, the BBC hired the research company MTM to deprive 80 U.K....
The New York Times Co. offered a familiar story Wednesday in its earnings report for the first quarter of 2022: The number of its digital subscribers continues to surge; print and digital subscriptions now total 9.1 million.Digital news subscriptions...
El Universal, a 105-year-old newspaper based in Mexico City with more than 16 million unique monthly visitors to its Web site, wanted to see if it could recreate the behaviour of its loyal subscribers. The goal was to get...
A recent video of TV reporter Tori Yorgey being hit by a car while doing a segment on live television went viral for several reasons. Yorgey’s ultra-calm reaction was even more remarkable: She was quick to recover and say...
The Guardian has issued new social media guidelines warning that staff who engage in public slanging matches with each other on Twitter could face disciplinary action.It has also warned staff against airing opinions on social media, scooping The Guardian...
After reading Javier Garza Ramos’ most recent piece, I’ve grown fascinated by the history of Mexico’s local media. Overshadowed by the country’s national outlets, small-town publications played a critical role in demanding government accountability in the 1970s and ‘80s, and...
Journalists covering conflicts, as well as those working in authoritarian or hostile environments, are rightly at the front of our minds on World Press Freedom Day, a day of support for media vulnerable to press freedom attacks, and a...
