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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Don’t underestimate Russian propaganda
▪️The articles featured pertain to insights from EBU's climate journalism report, key findings from WAN-IFRA's World Press Trends Outlook report, ethical dilemmas in wartime journalism, and what Russians read on Telegram;
▪️Interesting insights on The New York Times' strategy, its relationship with tech giants and how gamification helps the outlet attract audiences, as well as how The Economist built one of their most successful newsletters on LinkedIn, reaching 2.7 million subscribers from our colleagues at The Verge. Press Gazette and Italian journalist Francesco Zaffarano;
▪️Great opportunities from World Congress & Media Innovation Festival, JournalismAI, Financial Times, and International Media Support.
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With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Telegram became a refuge for censored Russian media outlets that condemned the war. Yet, Russians opt to mainly follow pro-invasion content on the platform, Veronika Snoj found.
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When your country is at war, how do you balance journalistic standards, civil duty and personal feelings? We spoke with @ukrpravda_news' frontline reporter Olha Kyrylenko and media expert Otar Dovzhenko.
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The right approach to climate and environmental journalism could drive the transition to more contemporary journalism.
Here's how, thanks to the report “Climate journalism that works” by the European Broadcasting Union.
✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including our list of top media podcasts, registration strategy tips for publishers, the phenomenon of Mastodon, and why newsletters should be repackaged as podcasts and vice versa.
🎧 Best media podcasts;
📑 Registration strategy ideas for publishers;
🐘 A look into Mastodon;
📰 Why newsletters should be turned into podcasts;
✌️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:
▪️Leaders of Tut.by, the largest news site in Belarus, received long jail sentences this week, a culmination of years-long crackdown on the independent outlet. Editor-in-chief Marina Zolotova and general director Lyudmila Chekina were jailed for 12 years.
▪️TikTok increasingly finds itself in political trouble in the US and other Western countries as fears over its Chinese control grow among American and European governments.
▪️The race between generative AI tools further intensified this week as Google began a limited release of Bard, its AI chatbot. Google’s “new A.I. chatbot will be available to a limited number of users in the United States and Britain and will accommodate additional users, countries and languages over time.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
How can you better convert visitors into paying subscribers? Registration is an essential middle step.
Madeleine White of Poool and The Audiencers shares advice on how publishers can launch a registration wall strategy successfully.
📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: How generative AI will change newsrooms
▪️The articles featured pertain to the transformation of Microsoft Bing, Russian propaganda in Europe, Mediahuis’s AI experience, and how a banned Belarusian sports outlet operates;
▪️Interesting insights on The New York Times testing a new daily news podcast and how Deutsche Welle and NBC News are leveraging TikTok to reach and engage new audiences from our colleagues at Axios, Italian journalist Francesco Zaffarano and Digiday;
▪️Great opportunities from Global Investigative Journalism Network, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Free Press Unlimited, and BBC Media Action.
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Like dozens of independent outlets, Tribuna Belarus has been blocked in Belarus since 2020.
The sports outlet now compiles a list of athletes who supported the Russian aggression and publishes much more content in Belarusian. We interviewed Tribuna’s CEO Maks Berazinski.
There are numerous benefits to embracing explanatory journalism in your newsroom. It can be useful in fighting misinformation, and boost your revenue, argues Emma Löfgren. Our cheat sheet should help to get you started.
📍Read the full article for more tips.
In some ways, Microsoft Bing’s AI-powered search engine is more powerful than ChatGPT. Discover how to get access and how it works, thanks to this guide by Alberto Puliafito.
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Generation Z is already a part of the workforce — and they are changing the landscape of news consumption. But how exactly are they affecting the newsrooms?
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US publisher Mother Jones successfully navigated the shift to digital as a nonprofit. We speak with CEO Monika Bauerlein about their work and the lessons it can offer to other nonprofit outlets.
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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Addressing news avoidance with explanatory journalism and positive news
▪️The articles featured pertain to the story of one positive news outlet, an introduction to explanatory journalism, the second part of our environmental journalism series, and a look into the work of a data journalist;
▪️Interesting insights on Bellingcat's approach to Discord, and Politico’s European expansion from Italian journalist Francesco Zaffarano and our colleagues at Press Gazette;
▪️Great opportunities from The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, Free Press Unlimited, Media Development Foundation, and International Press Institute.
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The Economist is famous for its data journalism: distinct infographics, complex interactive works, data-driven projects.
What does the work of a data journalist look like from the inside? We asked Sondre Ulvund Solstad and here is the answer.
✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including insights from EBU's climate journalism report, key findings from WAN-IFRA's World Press Trends Outlook report, ethical dilemmas in wartime journalism, and what Russians read on Telegram.
🌏 What EBU's report says about climate journalism;
🗞 The state of the news business;
🇺🇦 What dilemmas Ukrainian journalists face amid hostilities;
📺 The darker side of Telegram in Russia;
✌️ 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:
▪️Axios HQ, Axios’s sister company that makes software for organisational communications, raised $20 million to fund its expansion with the use of generative AI tools.
▪️The Guardian’s owner Scott Trust apologised for its founders’ links to transatlantic slavery in the early 19th century.
▪️Oleksandr Tsakhniv, a former journalist at the Vchasno news agency covering the beleaguered Donbas region, was killed in combat while defending eastern Ukraine from Russia’s invasion. He was 37 and originated from the mining town of Selidove in the eastern Donetsk region. Before the full-scale war, he covered corruption in the region and worked on anti-corruption investigations, Vchasno notes.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
What concerns news publishers – and what are they excited to invest in? WAN-IFRA surveyed 167 media leaders from 62 countries and prepared an extensive report. We picked six key insights.
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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: What to know about working with Gen Z employees
▪️The articles featured pertain to our list of top media podcasts, registration strategy tips for publishers, the phenomenon of Mastodon, and why newsletters should be repackaged as podcasts and vice versa;
▪️Interesting insights on how the BBC struggled to adapt to the social media age and continuing underrepresentation of people of colour in top editorial positions from our colleagues at The Conversation and Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism;
▪️Great opportunities from Earth Journalism Network, Internews, The Independent, and The Guardian.
📍Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for more news on the European media space!
You might have heard of big publishers building franchises around podcasts or newsletters, but the truth is that outlets of any size can easily grow their content brands in the same manner and results. Here is how.
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Timing is a useful skill. When Twitter seemed in danger, Mastodon rose to the fore and took a slice of the pie – but, as Clubhouse shows, there must be substance and value behind an ambitious project to stay on top. We looked at the platform's impressive growth last autumn and the current state.
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🎧We're updating and expanding our list of top podcasts for journalists and media managers. Whether you're looking to take a break, learn something new, or stay up-to-date on the latest trends in publishing, the audio format is a great way to do it.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including the transformation of Bing, Russian propaganda in Europe, Mediahuis’s AI experience, and how a banned Belarusian sports outlet operates.
⌨️ Bing’s AI power;
📝 EU report on Russian propaganda;
📈 Mediauhuis’s AI-driven successes;
⚽️ The case of Tribuna Belarus sports outlet;
✌️ 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:
▪️The BBC found itself embroiled in a crisis in recent days over the corporation’s decision to suspend Gary Lineker, one of its most prominent hosts, because of his tweet criticising the UK government’s immigration policy.
▪️The New York Times is testing a new daily news podcast, with plans to launch it later this year, according to Axios. The podcast is called “The Headlines” and will feature a brief look into the day’s biggest headlines.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
Russian propaganda has failed to win over Europe, but it hasn’t stopped trying. A report by the European External Action Service looks at Russian information manipulation techniques, from official state media to impersonation of Western outlets like this fake Charlie Hebdo cover. We summarised its key findings.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including useful tools for environmental journalism, lessons from nonprofit outlet Mother Jones, how to use pillar pages for SEO purposes, and what Gen Z brings to newsrooms.
🌏 Environmental journalism tools;
💸 How a nonprofit national news outlet operates;
🔎 Using pillar pages to improve SEO;
🧑💻 What there is to know about working with Generation Z employees;
✌️ 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:
▪️The Financial Times launched FT Edit, its app that offers access to a daily selection of eight articles for a fraction of the normal subscription in the United States. The product, which aims to attract new readers who can’t afford a (relatively expensive) full subscription, was first launched in the UK early last year.
▪️Mass protests erupted in Georgia this week over a controversial “foreign agent” bill that could, among other issues, worsen media freedom in the country. The bill, which critics say had been modelled on the infamous Russian law targeting alleged “foreign agents”, was passed in the parliament on Tuesday thanks to the support of the ruling Georgian Dream party.
▪️Reach, one of the UK’s largest newspaper publishers that operates outlets like the Daily Express and Daily Mirror, posted its yearly results for 2022, showing a decrease in revenue and profit year-on-year driven by rising newsprint costs in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as by an advertising market downturn
📍 Find out more in this week’s digest.
From Copernicus to Environmental Justice Atlas, from the Global Environmental Crime Tracker to Global Fishing Watch: resources for environmental journalists in the third part of The Fix’s Environmental Journalism Guide compiled by Alberto Puliafito.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including the story of one positive news outlet, introduction to explanatory journalism, the second part of environmental journalism series, and a look into the work of a data journalist.
🧘 Profile of ShoTam;
✍️ How to do explanatory journalism;
🌍 Environmental journalism (part two);
💻 The day-to-day work of a data journalist;
✌️ 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:
▪️Axel Springer, Europe’s largest publishing house that owns multiple news brands in Germany and the United States, announced restructuring plans that would shift its focus on the American market.
▪️Substack announced that it reached 2 million paid subscriptions across the newsletters hosted by the platform, up from previously reported 1 million over a year ago. The company says it has over 20 million monthly active subscribers, a figure which includes readers with free subscriptions.
▪️US government-funded broadcaster Voice of America (VOA) has faced a scandal over its hiring of journalists who formerly worked for Russian propagandist channels.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
