Elon Musk’s $44bn takeover of Twitter is a “chilling development” in billionaires’ desire to increase their political influence by buying up many of the world’s largest and most influential media brands, a leading British analyst has warned.Claire Enders, founder...
Our world is awash in mis- and disinformation. Conspiratorial thinking and misguided beliefs and attitudes towards science are widespread. But combatting this deluge of problematic information must be done with care. Too often, argues Whitney Phillips, we dismiss the...
Local news titles – particularly those serving medium-sized towns – risk “going to the wall” without further government support, a publishing boss has warned.Newsquest chief executive Henry Faure Walker has issued the warning to ministers after regional publishers united...
Legacy publishers like The New York Times and The Washington Post are experimenting with more personalization on their homepages to curate and surface content tailored to readers’ interests and behaviors to get them to engage with more of their...
Many countries may have relaxed their pandemic restriction, but a return to the newsroom full-time, at least for the time being, doesn’t seem on the cards for many organisations. Still, there is much to be said about the benefits...
At some point during the pandemic, every task related to producing a Nieman Lab story felt like pulling teeth.I love my job, of course (don’t fire me, Laura), but brain broken has been very real for a long time....
A lot of the talk about membership seems to revolve around being a source of income for news organisations. Yes, reader revenue has become an important stream of money, but its value goes beyond pounds and pennies.Today (27 April),...
On 4 April, Elon Musk disclosed his 9.2 percent stake in Twitter. That news set off a nearly month-long back and forth that saw Musk almost take a seat on the board, before reversing course and instead announcing plans...
Following on from last month’s list of the highest-paid media executives, Press Gazette has used the accounts of publicly-traded UK companies to find out which news media companies pay the highest salaries to their staff.The Financial Times topped the...
“I had seen diversity initiatives flounder because they were too complicated or too negative an experience for people to take on.” BBC News presenter and 50:50 The Equality Project founder Ros Atkins told researchers at Behavioural Scientist in November...
