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 […]
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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
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Twitter is testing new changes to how photos and videos appear on its apps, closer to how images appear on other services such as Instagram. The new feature will expand visual media embedded in tweets to fill the whole width of a mobile phone’s screen. Currently, images are indented next to a user’s profile photo
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Facebook has been accused of breaking equality law in the way it handles job adverts. Campaign group Global Witness said it failed to prevent discriminatory targeting of ads and its algorithm was biased in choosing who would see them. In an experiment, almost all Facebook users shown adverts for mechanics were men, while ads for
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2021-09-08. News organisations from Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Uruguay will be part of the first “Newsroom & Business Transformation Program” in Latin America. After the successful launches in Asia and the Middle East last year, WAN-IFRA is expanding the programme to the Latin American region, with the support of the Facebook Journalism Project. The following
2021-09-08. As the gaming industry’s audience size surpasses the film, music and television industries combined, news publishers around the world need to give the sector the recognition it deserves. “Out of the 2.7 billion game players worldwide, almost 1.5 billion of them are right here in the APAC region. Unlike decades ago, this is no
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in Hadramout governorate, in eastern Yemen, to guarantee the safety of three Yemeni freelance journalists who fled the country in 2015 to avoid abduction by Al-Qaeda and who are now the targets of a death threat by a governorate official because they have been denouncing corruption in
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2021-09-07. Nordkurier, a news publisher based in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the country’s northeast, has created a weekly newsletter that aims to strengthen the bonds between people who used to live in the region with the area’s present and its future. Today, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is home to about 1.6 million people, which makes it
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2021-09-07. Advertising is a predominant revenue stream in the Indian media digital space. The past 15 years have seen a constant struggle for advertisers’ budgets, with brands usually choosing big platforms with more data and users. [Sponsored Content] Piano is an SaaS platform strategic services company whose clients include 700 news media businesses, such as
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Ma Thuzar, a journalist held arbitrarily since her arrest for no clear reason in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, a week ago after four months in hiding. Her family and colleagues spent five days without any news of her after she was snatched by
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