Sachini Kavindya

68 percent of news website readers are first-time visitors: Piano

2021-04-26. Don’t underestimate the power of email, which is 2.5 times more effective in acquiring subscribers than users going directly to site (and don’t be afraid to ask readers to pay!), says Piano. The humble email is proving to be an important marketing tool for news publishers. Figures disclosed by Piano during WAN-IFRA’s recent Asian

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World News Day 2021 to focus on the defining story of our time – Join the global campaign to show why journalism matters.

World News Day will take place on 28 September 2021 and we want you to join the global campaign that shows why journalism matters. Last year, 150 newsrooms took part in the World News Day campaign, presented by the World Editors Forum and Canadian Journalism Foundation. It is part of a global drive to build

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Cameroonian reporter jailed since August, abandoned by justice system

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of Emmanuel Mbombog Mbog Matip, a journalist who has been imprisoned without trial in Cameroon since last August and who is being held in an entirely illegal manner. The editor of the newspaper Climat Social and president of the National League for the Defence of the Rights

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PRESS RELEASE

Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) has partnered with the Colombo Hilton to launch a PRESS CLUB. An agreement was signed last week between the Chairman of the SLPI Mr. Kumar Nadesan and the General Manager Hilton Colombo & Area General Manager Hilton Sri Lanka, Mr. Manesh Fernando. Colombo Hilton will be the host-hotel for the

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PRESS RELEASE: SLPI Submits Media Regulation Proposal to Media Minister

The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI), its constituents and affiliated organizations met with the Minister of Mass Media, Hon. Keheliya Rambukwella on Monday, 15th of March to submit an outline of the proposal for a single Authority to monitor the Media, including print, radio, television and digital based on self-regulatory principles that will ensure freedom

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Let Russian journalists cover demonstrations, RSF says after latest pro-Navalny protests

Despite measures supposedly designed to limit arbitrary arrests of journalists, at least ten were arrested during demonstrations across Russia on 21 April in support of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who has been on hunger strike since 31 March. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities to order the police to let journalists do their

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What exactly is section 230, and the position of News Media

How “the twenty-six words that created the Internet” are impacting on the news media business. It all started from the Wolf of Wall Street. Section 230 is the only rule surviving from the “Communications Decency Act” of 1996, it shields platforms (and publishers) from legal responsibility for the content users post on their websites, it

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Publisher spend: A bigger focus on the newsroom

Editorial and content production now make up a third of news organisations’ costs, according to WAN-IFRA’s recently published World Press Trends Outlook report. Members can download the World Press Trends Outlook report for free here; non-members interested in purchasing the report can contact: customerservice@wan-ifra.org). The costs of the news business have shifted during recent years

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Publisher spend: A bigger focus on the newsroom

Editorial and content production now make up a third of news organisations’ costs, according to WAN-IFRA’s recently published World Press Trends Outlook report. Members can download the World Press Trends Outlook report for free here; non-members interested in purchasing the report can contact: customerservice@wan-ifra.org). The costs of the news business have shifted during recent years

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