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2021-09-10. Consumers will pay for content that is timely and resonates with them, even in tough markets like Indonesia, where publishers have struggled to persuade users to pay, according to speakers at WAN-IFRA’s recent Digital Media Asia conference. A session during the event focused on niche revenue opportunities and featured Leilani Han, Director of Business Development […]

2021-09-10. Our Burning Planet produces high-end journalism about humanity’s greatest challenge. On World News Day, 28 September, some 300 newsrooms around the world will show what they are doing about climate change. As part of the build-up, Laura Oliver interviewed Jillian Green, managing editor of Our Burning Planet, a unit dedicated to covering the global environmental

As new EU export controls rules come into force on 9 September with the recast Dual-Use Regulation(1), five organizations call upon the European Commission as well as all 27 EU member states to follow up on their promise of creating a transparent market in cyber-surveillance technologies that is bound by effective human rights safeguards with

The Tanzanian government’s decision to suspend an independent weekly for 30 days is “arbitrary and excessive” and a complete contradiction of the new president’s declared intention to stop sanctioning the media, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says. One of Tanzania’s most popular Swahili-language newspapers, Raia Mwema has been missing from the country’s newsstands since 6 September, one day

The Tanzanian government’s decision to suspend an independent weekly for 30 days is “arbitrary and excessive” and a complete contradiction of the new president’s declared intention to stop sanctioning the media, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says. One of Tanzania’s most popular Swahili-language newspapers, Raia Mwema has been missing from the country’s newsstands since 6 September, one day

Twitter has announced a new feature allowing accounts to self-identify as bots, by adding a label to their profile. Twitter said the update was based on research that found that people wanted more context about non-human accounts. The company gives several examples of “good bots” including accounts that share vaccination updates, information about seismic activity

2021-09-09. El Diario, a Spanish online-only news company, was founded in 2012 with the primary aim of reconnecting society with journalism. The company’s membership programme is built under the premise that journalism is a public service. El Diario’s membership model guarantees its employees economic and editorial independence, all the while keeping the reader at its

2021-09-09. Google’s delay in phasing out third-party cookies until the end of 2023 offers a temporary relief to news publishers, but many still need to find alternatives. The New York Times appears well prepared to replicate the success they have had with the digital subscription model on the advertising front as well. The company began

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Tajik authorities to add Khikmatullo Sayfullozoda, a journalist imprisoned since 2015 in conditions that are endangering his life, to the list of thousands of prisoners due to be freed under an amnesty issued by President Emomali Rahmon to mark the 30th anniversary of Tajikistan’s independence. The editor of