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Major Swedish publishers got together to offer joint recommendations on AI transparency for news media. We looked at their advice and spoke with one of the project’s leaders Agnes Stenbom about the rationale behind the initiative.
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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: The perils of being everything to everyone
▪️The articles featured pertain to ways to diversify revenue for news outlets, and challenges faced by general news publications;
▪️Interesting insights on the future of Telegram messenger, and DMG Media's podcast strategy from our colleagues at Financial Times and Press Gazette;
▪️Great opportunities from Global Investigative Journalism Network, IJ4EU, and International Fund for Public Interest Media.
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We spoke with Brian Morrissey, author of The Rebooting, about the woes of general news publishers, interesting niche players, and advice for established news players hoping to survive ongoing turmoil.
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👋 So what news has this week brought us in the field of media?
Here are this week's stories picked by our team:
▪️Deadspin, the US-based sports news website, has been sold to Lineup Publishing, a new little-known European digital media company.
▪️The Associated Press is introducing its own e-commerce site, Axios reports. Called AP Buyline, the project is launched in partnership with the Taboola advertising platform. The site will start publishing next week and will include product reviews and personal finance coverage.
▪️The Russian government is intensifying its attacks against the largely exiled independent media sector in the wake of the rigged presidential election due to be held this week.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including Voxeurop's subscriber strategy, and a story of one local Romanian outlet.
🔃 How Voxeurop converts subscribers into shareholders;
🇷🇴 How Iasul Nostru is building a local publication in Romania;
✌️ Our weekly digest.
👋 So what news has this week brought us in the field of media?
Here are this week's stories picked by our team:
▪️LinkedIn increases its investment in news as most other major social platforms are deprioritising journalistic content, Axios reports.
▪️In another sign of Meta’s deprioritisation of news, the company announced it would discontinue Facebook News, a dedicated tab for news content, in the United States and Australia and stop paying publishers for using their content when current contracts expire.
▪️TalkTV, a rightwing TV channel launched in the UK by News UK, will stop broadcasting on TV and go online-only after failing to amass meaningful television viewership and trailing behind its main rival GB News.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Lessons in media innovation
▪️The articles featured pertain to five reflections on the two-year anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, what A Death in Malta teaches us about European journalism, and deteriorating press freedom in Slovakia;
▪️Interesting insights on The Guardian's recently launched “deeply read” stories feature, and the BBC's 12 internal pilots for using generative AI in its work;
▪️Great opportunities from Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Journalismfund Grants, and Reuters.
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🗞 What's your media job series: part three
We interviewed various media and other related professionals over the past few months to gain insight into what their jobs involve. The following section provides a thorough overview of six distinct roles within the industry (and beyond).
Here is a selection of profiles we have for you this time:
▪️ Project manager;
▪️ Director of campus;
▪️ AI consultant;
▪️ Managing editor;
▪️ Patreon creator manager;
▪️ Head of business development.
A Death in Malta is Paul Caruana Galizia’s attempt at introducing his mother, Daphne Caruana Galizia, to a world that knows her as a murder victim. The result is an opportunity for European journalists to discover how one of their most formidable peers was shaped, Christoph Schwaiger writes in his article for The Fix.
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Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine just entered its third year. Here’s our look at five reflections from our coverage of the invasion.
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Patrick Boehler shares ten lessons he learned leading media innovation for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and other publishers in our latest article.
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👋 So what news has this week brought us in the field of media?
Here are this week's stories picked by our team:
▪️The New York Times is working on a generative AI advertising tool it plans to debut next quarter, Axios reports.
▪️Director general of the BBC Tim Davie told a parliamentary committee that he is pleased with the new licence fee deal with the government, The Guardian reports.
▪️A new investigation by The Washington Post uncovered a large-scale disinformation campaign against Ukraine by the Kremlin.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Thriving without ads
▪️The articles featured pertain to a profile of a Greek investigative media, how the war affected Russian social networks, and a look into a media crisis in Portugal;
▪️Interesting insights on late Alexei Navalny’s history as an anti-corruption investigator, and Blick's strategy behind the launch of a freemium paywall from our colleagues at OCCRP and Press Gazette;
▪️Great opportunities from Journalismfund Europe, The Seek Initiative, and The Media Development Foundation and International Press Institute.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including a profile of a Greek investigative media, how the war affected Russian social networks, and a look into a media crisis in Portugal.
🔎 How one investigative outlet thrives without ads;
📱 Russian social media two years into the war;
🇵🇹 Portugal's journalism crisis;
✌️ Our weekly digest.
Russia’s censorship and the withdrawal of foreign companies from the Russian market have also carved out a space for new social media platforms. But are they successful? Veronica Snoj explores in her latest article for The Fix.
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👋 So what news has this week brought us in the field of media?
Here are this week's stories picked by our team:
▪️Rodolphe Saade, French shipping billionaire, has purchased France’s leading news channel BFM TV. The deal, which includes the channel and radio station RMC, is valued at €1.55 billion.
▪️The Polish government is cutting the budget for Belsat TV, Poland’s flagship broadcaster for Belarus. Belsat’s founder and director Agnieszka Romaszewska-Guzy, who openly protested the cuts, was dismissed from her position this week.
▪️Two years after a Russian missile attack on the Kyiv TV Tower led to the first killing of a journalist during the full-scale invasion, Russia is intensifying its physical attacks on Ukraine’s media infrastructure.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including ways to diversify revenue for news outlets, and challenges faced by general news publications.
📚 How books, workshops, and educational content can help media;
✍️ Brian Morrissey's insights into doing more with less;
✌️ Our weekly digest.
Priyal Shah looked at three less traditional ways to diversify revenue for news publishers: books, workshops, and educational content in her latest article for The Fix.
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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: The cooperative model; LinkedIn’s investment in news
▪️The articles featured pertain to Voxeurop's subscriber strategy, and a story of one local Romanian outlet;
▪️Interesting insights on AI advancements making podcasts more accessible, and how AI and other technological developments are also making it easier to create disinformation at scale from our colleagues at Digiday and The New York Times;
▪️Great opportunities from Outriders, the International Women's Media Foundation, and The Economist.
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Over the past three years, Alex Enășescu has been building Iașul Nostru, a local outlet in Iași, Romania. James Breiner spoke with Enășescu about how he started a local publication in Europe thanks to a grant from a VC-funded US company and how the outlet is doing today.
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Voxeurop has been on a mission to convert its subscribers into shareholders. The latest drive helped secure nearly 200 shareholders from 27 different countries. We spoke with CEO Paul Salvanès and looked at the publisher’s cooperative model.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including five reflection on the two-year anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, what A Death in Malta teaches us about European journalism, and deteriorating press freedom in Slovakia.
🧑🎓 Five thoughts from our coverage of Russia's war against Ukraine;
🌍 Lessons about journalism in Europe from the book A Death in Malta;
🇸🇰 Thoughts on the future of independent media in Slovakia.
Journalists critical of the current government are facing harassment and attacks in Slovakia, Dávid Tvrdoň writes. At this pace the country risks following the footsteps of Hungary.
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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Two years of war
▪️The articles featured pertain to our selection of media about media on Threads, a look into Zetland's product development and external digital tools, and lessons in media innovation from an audience and product strategist;
▪️Interesting insights on the demise of Vice Media and news websites that chose to block AI crawlers from our colleagues at the BBC, Defector, and Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism;
▪️Great opportunities from Free Press Unlimited, International Press Institute, and The Guardian.
📍Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for more news on the European media space!
✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including our selection of media about media on Threads, a look into Zetland's product development and external digital tools, and lessons in media innovation from an audience and product strategist.
🧵 Media pages to follow on Threads;
🛠 Digital tools used by Danish outlet Zetland;
📑 Ten lessons in media innovation;
✌️ Our weekly digest.
We are reviving Toolbox, a series on digital tools used by news publishers. For this edition, we spoke with the Danish outlet Zetland about external tools they rely on and their own product development, including Good Tape service for audio transcription.
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Major journalism organisations and schools are starting to establish a presence on Meta's Threads app to discuss trends in digital media. Check out some top accounts to follow like Nieman Lab, Poynter, Columbia Journalism Review, and more for insights on innovation, challenges, and the future of the industry.
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Portugal wakes up to a crisis in journalism after a big media group announced a financial crisis that would lead to the dismissal of almost 200 journalists in historic newspapers. Journalists are finally coming together in the search for solutions for the profession’s survival, Francisca Valentim writes in her article for The Fix.
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👋 So what news has this week brought us in the field of media?
Here are this week's stories picked by our team:
▪️DMGT, a British media company that owns the Daily Mail and other titles, showed revenue growth in 2023 “as a strong performance from UAE-headquartered B2B events division offset falling income at its UK consumer newsbrands”, Press Gazette reports.
▪️Over in the US, tech outlet 404 Media said it was profitable six months after launch, NiemanLab reports. The publisher is small but interesting for its ownership structure – it’s wholly owned by the journalists. “404 Media’s founders and co-owners — a staff of four — all come from Motherboard, Vice’s tech vertical”, NiemanLab writes.
▪️Axel Springer, the European media giant headquartered in Germany, announced its new US leadership team.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
The Fix spoke to inside story's co-founder Dimitris Xenakis about how his Greek-based investigative platform has financially sustained itself solely on a subscription model.
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