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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Profiling jobs in the media industry
▪️The articles featured pertain to tips for publishers on LinkedIn, digital tools to embrace tech, our updated ranking of European publishers on TikTok, Tortoise's success with “slow podcasts”, arguments for and against using human narrators and more;
▪️Interesting insights on Radio Liberty’s resurgence in Central and Eastern Europe, a look into Axios Pro model, and AP's push to attract more consumer traffic from our colleagues at The New York Times, Digiday, and Axios;
▪️Great opportunities from the Knight Foundation, International Media Support, Internews, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including tips for publishers on LinkedIn, digital tools to embrace tech, our updated ranking of European publishers on TikTok, and more.
🧰 7 LinkedIn tools for publishers;
🐢 How Tortoise is succeeding with slow podcasts;
🗣 Arguments for and against using human narrators;
🇬🇪 Innovation in Georgian media;
📊 Top European publishers on TikTok;
🧲 10 tools to befriend technology;
✌️ 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:
▪️In the UK, Richard Sharp’s position as chairman of the BBC is under investigation following the allegations that Sharp helped Boris Johnson, prime minister at the time, secure a loan shortly before his appointment in early 2021.
▪️Multiple tech and media companies in the United States cut jobs over the past several weeks amidst economic uncertainty and advertising slowdown.
▪️The Associated Press has plans to diversify its revenue streams by attracting more advertising. The nonprofit news agency now makes 82% of its money from licensing its stories to other publishers; advertising accounts for less than 10% of the revenue.
Find out more in this week's digest.
Turning articles into audio is undeniably useful for news publishers. But should you hire human narrators or use an AI generator?
In a partner column from BeyondWords, James MacLeod explores the benefits of each approach.
📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: The quest for diverse voices and diverse media models
▪️The articles featured pertain to the evolution of Polish outlet Outriders, why climate changes are overlooked by media, a look into the role of head of paid content, the problematics of white men domination in Italian news, how one meme turned into a campaign that raised millions for war-torn Ukraine, and why LinkedIn is getting more attention from journalists;
▪️Interesting insights on @RFERL’s approach to Telegram, and how and why new podcast creation has declined from our colleagues Francesco Zaffarano and The Verge;
▪️Great opportunities from IJ4EU, UNESCO, International Press Institute, Euronews, 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 the evolution of Polish outlet Outriders, why climate changes are overlooked by media, a look into the role of head of paid content, the problematics of white men domination in Italian news, how one meme turned into a campaign that raised millions for war-torn Ukraine, and why LinkedIn is getting more attention from journalists.
🧑💻 The story of Outriders;
🌍 Neglection of climate crisis in media;
👩🔧 What being a head of paid content entails;
🇮🇹 Lack of diversity in Italian media;
💸 Saint Javelin: meme to meaningful;
💼 LinkedIn for media;
✌️ Our weekly digest.
Over the past year, Saint Javelin grew from one meme to having contributed over $2 million to Ukraine’s war effort. What’s in the plans for the future?
We spoke with the project’s founder Christian Borys and communications manager Julia Tymoshenko.
🇮🇹 In Italy, news debates are almost always led by white men who explain and interpret the world for the masses.
Francesco Guidotti and Angelo Boccato explain this absence of diverse voices.
What is it that makes the news media underplay climate change? Is it the overwhelmingness of the crisis or a lack of resources? Charlotte Lavin explores in this article for The Fix.
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How to serve the audience tired of hundreds of news articles published daily? Outriders can be a great case: newsletter, podcast, membership, a platform for knowledge sharing and networking of journalists.
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Gamers, move over! Reporter Emilio Doménech López, known as Nanisimo shared his experience of using Twitch at the News Impact Summit: The Future of Editorial last year.
Here's our summary of his presentation.
Here are our top 10 takeaways from the recent @reutersinstitute journalism and media trend report authored by none other than Senior Research Associate Nic Newman.
We also dug out the 2013 version of the report, and it’s fascinating to compare. Seems like a big shift is happening.
📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Making your journalism more constructive in 2023
▪️The articles featured pertain to оur top stories of 2022, a look into the work of a head of audio and newsletters, а profile of Visegrád 24, and the media outlook for 2023;
▪️Interesting insights on reasons to be optimistic for 2023, reflections on 10 years of NYT’s “Snow Fall” multimedia feature, and centralisation of UK’s local news media market from our colleagues at Semafor, The New York Times, and Press Gazette;
▪️Great opportunities from the European Endowment for Democracy, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, UNESCO, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
📍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 top stories of 2022, a look into the work of a head of audio and newsletters, and the media outlook for 2023.
🎖 Most popular stories of 2022;
🎙 Work of head of audio and newsletters;
🗓 2023 outlook in media;
✌️ Our weekly digest.
“Voenkory” or milbloggers, pro-Kremlin correspondents covering Russia’s war in Ukraine, have a wide following in Russia and wider latitude to criticise the government’s actions – up to a point. Veronica Snoj explores this phenomenon in her latest article for The Fix.
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We love a good newsletter bringing you regular updates from your favorite outlet, journalist, blogger or author. We have updated our selection of top picks for those interested in staying up to date on the latest in media.
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Time is the most precious resource for journalists. Here’s a list of 10 tools that will help you work more efficiently this year.
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It's 2023 on the calendar so it's time to update our ranking of top European publishers on TikTok. Brands see the platform as a worthy investment, marketers as a helpful tool and publishers try to reach new audiences.
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UK publisher Tortoise is a slow news startup mainly focused on audio production. What can we learn about the relationship between users and slow content? Anna Sofia Lippolis explains in her latest piece for The Fix.
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LinkedIn has long evolved into more than an enhanced resume platform. Still, many news outlets remain hesitant about making full use of this network – far beyond merely sharing their written content. We looked at the approaches taken by some media.
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Have you also noticed an uptick in your LinkedIn usage? Media leaders in 53 countries view it as the next best choice after Twitter, far ahead of Mastodon or Post, David Tvrdon writes in his 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:
▪️Reuters will create 100 editorial jobs across the world thanks to an expansion of its partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group.
▪️Robinhood, a US-based trading platform, is launching a media arm called Sherwood and led by experienced journalist Joshua Topolsky, former chief editor of The Verge and Engadget.
▪️Semafor, a US-based media startup launched last fall, was reported this week to have received a $10 million investment from Sam Bankman-Fried before its launch. Since the investment had been made, Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange company FTX collapsed and its founder was accused of fraud by the US government.
Find out more in this week's digest.
New article in our series about jobs in journalism – let’s take a look at the Head of Paid Content and the organisational structure of such a department.
We spoke to Nick Tjaardstra, who leads subscriber conversion, engagement and retention for German financial news outlets Handelsblatt and WirtschaftsWoche.
📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: The coming paradigm shift in news media
▪️The articles featured pertain to a look into @Babel's story, how a city online newspaper adapted to wartime reality, insights from the latest @reutersinstitute media report, and how journalists can make use of Twitch;
▪️Interesting insights on how Finland is teaching school students to spot fake news, operation of right-leaning GB News two years on amid challenges, and discussions on the use of ChatGPT within the wiki community from our colleagues at The New York Times, Bloomberg and Slate;
▪️Great opportunities from One World Media Awards, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, GIJN, and Politico Europe.
📍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 a look into @Babel's story, how a city online newspaper adapted to wartime reality, insights from the latest @reutersinstitute media report, and how journalists can make use of Twitch.
📈 Babel's operations during war;
🌆 How one Ukrainian urban media transformed in 2022;
🧐 Findings from latest Reuters Institute report;
☝️ Twitch for journalists;
✌️ 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:
▪️Independent Russian TV channel Dozhd (TV Rain) received a five-year broadcasting permit in the Netherlands. The Dutch Media Authority granted the channel a licence to broadcast its content on cable networks across the EU countries.
▪️Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty opened a new office in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, to provide better coverage of Belarus and Russia and counter Russian disinformation. The office will house staff displaced from the two countries controlled by authoritarian regimes.
▪️UK publisher Reach will cut 200 jobs – about 5% of its workforce – in an effort to cut costs amid the decline in print and digital ads. The company is trying to save £30 million (€34 million) in the wake of the underwhelming results of the season typically most conducive to ad sales – the World Cup, Black Friday and Christmas.
Find out more in this week’s digest.
Last year, @VillageUa had to pivot from reporting on city news like restaurant launches to covering the war. Editor-in-chief Yaroslav Druziuk reflects on how they have managed the transition.
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With a team of 30 people, @Babel has established itself as one of the most high-quality national news publishers in Ukraine. How are they operating amidst the war in their country?
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As we enter the new year, The Fix took a look at the coming trends based on Nieman Lab’s collection of predictions. One stands already clear: 2023 will not get any less challenging, Amélie Reichmuth argues.
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