Sachini Kavindya

Economic uncertainty, social and political unrest, environmental catastrophe, and global health crises continue to impact people and businesses worldwide. Yet, amidst each of these disruptions, managers must maintain forward momentum to ensure their teams achieve success. This past year we’ve seen tech giants fall due to mismanagement, recklessness, economic turmoil, a lack of innovation, or […]

Once considered a viable way to grow revenue, media companies are rethinking whether they want to be in the software licensing business. And for good reason. As we move into more challenging economic climates, media companies must think long and hard about business units outside their core focus. And we’re starting to see that play

Reach’s Curiously is so far on Tiktok, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram and Snapchat – but not its own site. Mirror, Express and regional news publisher Reach has increased its efforts to connect with younger audiences with the launch of a new social-first brand, Curiously. Aimed at 16 to 34-year-olds, Curiously is described as a “social content brand”.

photo: Top: David Higgerson, M Scott Havens and Nick Hugh. Middle: Benjamin Cohen, Rachel Corp and Aja Whitaker-Moore. Bottom: Charles Yardley, William Lewis and Rebecca Miskin. News leaders answer the question: “What is the biggest challenge of 2023 and how will you tackle it?” By Charlotte Tobitt and William Turvill Press Gazette asked a host of UK and

This is Part 1 of a two-part series that analyzes Twitter, a live case study that has provided salient lessons about power, control, politics and the future direction of community and the platforms that govern them. We’ve had a unique privilege to live through and consume the absurdity of Twitter in the latter part of

An Afghan journalist, in exile in Athens, Greece, stands on a terrace with her young daughter, 8 March 2022. Several Afghan women members of Parliament, along with activists and judges who escaped Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power of the country in August 2021, had been holding meetings in Athens to consolidate their network and

Pakistan Press Foundation released a year-end report which noted that despite the change in government, “little improvement has been seen in the state of press freedom”. This statement was originally published on pakistanpressfoundation.org on 31 December 2022. In a country where the press routinely remains under threat and faces attacks from many fronts, the media in Pakistan

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the sham trial that has ended with Ukrainian journalist Iryna Danilovych being sentenced to seven years in prison by a municipal court in Feodosia, in southeastern Crimea, on a charge of making explosives. Hounded by the Russian security authorities since 2016, this journalist must be freed at once, RSF says.

It is just as important to identify the actors who perpetuate disinformation as it is the false facts themselves: if a journalist is able to target the source of false information, they can expose and neutralize it. During an ICFJ Disarming Disinformation masterclass, held in partnership with the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, award-winning data journalist