Sachini Kavindya

How publishers are using ecommerce strategies to boost revenue from digital subscription

2022-01-31. Selling digital subscriptions is no longer enough, there is a growing demand for ecommerce based media subscription platforms that allow publishers to activate new cross-selling and upselling strategies. | Sponsored Content Above image: Spain’s MARCA has created a dedicated site to sell sport and related events tickets. The rise of the subscription economy has lead media […]

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AFP reorganizes newsroom with emphasis on climate coverage

2022-01-31. Reshaping the newsroom for a post-COVID-19 world offers a unique opportunity to put climate change coverage at the centre of operations – as AFP in France has done. In a bid to better reflect its editorial strategy and strengthen its coverage of certain topics, France’s AFP has reorganised its Paris newsroom into eight specialised

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Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, RSF report The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China now available in 10 languages

As the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing approaches, Reporters Without Borders’ breakthrough report The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China, originally published in English and French, is now also available in Arabic, Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. On the occasion of the 24th Winter Olympic Games, starting on 4th February 2022

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Joe Rogan pledges to try harder after Neil Young Spotify row

Joe Rogan has pledged to try harder to offer more balanced views on his podcast, after he was criticised by Neil Young and Joni Mitchell for helping to spread Covid misinformation. The Canadian musicians asked to have their music pulled from the streaming platform as a result. Spotify has since said it is working to add

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2022 Winter Olympics in China: RSF and NGO coalition urge for increased diplomatic boycott

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of 242 organisations call for more nations to join the diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in response to the Chinese government’s human rights abuses. In a joint statement published on 27th January 2022, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of 242 human rights NGOs urged

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UK: British citizen found guilty of conspiring to kill exiled Pakistani blogger

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes the jury decision finding a British citizen guilty of conspiring to kill exiled Pakistani blogger Ahmad Waqass Goraya. The jury’s guilty verdict could serve as a landmark judgement in establishing accountability for transnational threats against journalists, which are far too often perpetuated with impunity. Following a two-week trial at the

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After coup, Burkina Faso’s junta must let journalists work, says RSF

After Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Damiba, the head of the military junta now governing Burkina Faso, failed to give any formal undertaking to protect press freedom in an address to the nation yesterday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the military to allow journalists to work freely and safely. A journalist was injured and two others were

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Ailing reporter held without trial for nearly three months in central Nigeria

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the persecution of Luka Binniyat, a journalist who has been detained in central Nigeria’s Kaduna state for more than 80 days pending a trial that keeps on being postponed although his health is worsening by the day. A reporter for Epoch Times, a conservative international daily based in the United States,

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Global study analyzing sexual harassment in newsrooms released by WAN-IFRA Women in News

2021-01-26. New data from a global study analysing sexual harassment in 20 countries finds, on average, 41% of women media professionals have experienced sexual harassment of some kind in the workplace. Women and gender non-conforming media professionals are almost three and a half times more likely to experience harassment than men. The international study documenting the extent of

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