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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including challenges to consider before venturing into media in Europe, and top European publishers on TikTok.
🔉 Announcement of V-Ventures' investment in The Fix;
👆 What to consider before going into the media business;
🎶 Leading European news outlets on TikTok;
🧐 Finding solutions while putting out fire;
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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:
▪️A Russian court extended the pre-trial detention of American journalist Evan Gershkovich by another three months, a year after he was arrested on bogus spying allegations. Gershkovich has covered Russia for The Wall Street Journal and became the first US journalist detained in Russia on spying allegations since the Cold War.
▪️Spain’s High Court ordered to block Telegram and then quickly reversed its decision. The initial order was issued on Friday following the allegations of copyright infringement by major Spanish media companies.
▪️G/O Media, an American media company that owns a set of digital news brands, is continuing to sell off its portfolio. The company sold film and TV website The A.V. Club to Paste Magazine, which recently also acquired feminist publisher Jezebel from G/O Media. The food website The Takeout has been sold to internet company Static Media, Adweek notes citing an internal memo.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
V-Ventures, the investment arm of the Netherlands-based foundation Vereniging Veronica, has acquired a minority stake in The Fix.
The investment will enable us to develop our research and advisory operations, helping European media leaders with data-driven decision-making and strategic support.
“This investment is an important step for The Fix as we are scaling the organization and taking on ambitious research projects like research in cooperation with JX Fund on Russian and Belarusian exiled media, their importance for the democratic struggle of the region, and the unique window they offer their audiences”, said Jakub Parusinski, co-founder and director of The Fix.
“We are very excited to announce the investment in The Fix. This formalizes the already existing ties between The Fix and V-Ventures, enabling V-Ventures to support more independent journalistic outlets that are so important in the current media landscape that is under substantial pressure”, said Lot Carlier, executive director of V-Ventures.
We're excited about this partnership and look forward to strengthening our mission of cracking the media management puzzle through insights, solutions, and data.
Stay tuned for more updates!
✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including how journalism's impact can be measured, and Swedish publishers' approach to AI.
📏 Measuring journalism's impact;
🧠 Swedish publishers' joint recommendations for AI transparency;
✌️ 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:
▪️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.
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✌️ 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;
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✍️ Avoiding mistakes in media
This month, we look at some mistakes news organisations tend to make – and how to think about avoiding them. Here are five articles that might save you time, nerves, and money going forward:
◼ Let’s start the year by questioning your newsroom’s business model;
◼ Building a future-proof newsroom: 5 strategies you neglect at your peril;
◼ Big newsrooms have problem with talent. What about the smaller ones? How to turn it around;
◼ Too many news media are terrible at communicating their value proposition;
◼ Is your newsroom producing too much content? The answer is probably yes.
For news publishers, TikTok has become a vast opportunity to reach new audiences and raise brand awareness. Let’s see what leading media outlets on the platform are at the end of the first quarter of 2024.
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What does it take to turn passion projects into working newsrooms? Four European startups share insights on wins, losses, and lessons learned in the media business.
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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: AI and news publishers ca. 2024
▪️The articles featured pertain to how journalism's impact can be measured, and Swedish publishers' approach to AI;
▪️Interesting insights on the idea behind The Fix, The Kyiv Independent’s work, media strategy, talent in the news industry, and the revamp of Poland's public media under PM Donald Tusk from our colleagues at European Journalism Centre and The Guardian;
▪️Great opportunities from the Knight Center for Journalism, the Media Development Investment Fund, and Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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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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