The Fix Media

20 Aug 2023 18:02

✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including efforts to investigate organised crime in the Amazon, reshaped advertising market in Ukraine, and European local media's financial struggles.

🌎 A profile of The Bruno and Dom Project investigating organised crime in the Amazon;

➡️ How Russian aggression transformed Ukraine's advertising market;

💸 Strategies used by local media in Europe to secure funds.

The Fix Media

16 Aug 2023 16:58

A year and a half into the war, how has the conflict impacted advertising for Ukraine’s digital news publishers? Clients’ profiles changed, ethical questions grew more important, and working practices evolved in wartime conditions, @villageua and The Tellers Agency told us.

The Fix Media

13 Aug 2023 18:02

✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including tips to improve project management in newsrooms, why trustworthy journalism is still in demand, how to audit your newsroom for audience listening, and handy tools for virtual newsrooms.

📑 Guide on project management for journalists;

📰 A profile of elDiario.es;

👂 Get started with audience listening;

💻 A list of tools to manage virtual newsrooms;

✌️ Our weekly digest.

The Fix Media

10 Aug 2023 13:30

Ever heard a call for deeper audience listening and thought: “I think we’re good, right”? In a new column for The Fix, Morten Ro examines what audience listening means – and why many newsrooms don’t do it properly.

The Fix Media

08 Aug 2023 16:17

What is high-quality journalism “in spite of everything”? Ignacio Escolar and his colleagues at elDiario.es knows the best as for the past 10 years they produce trustworthy journalism.

Read JamesBreiner’s analysis of optimistic trends in Spain media landscape 🇪🇸

The Fix Media

06 Aug 2023 18:01

✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including ways to tackle disinformation among youths, our list of stuff to catch up on this month, challenges of exiled journalists in Europe, and the story of feminist media in Ukraine.

ℹ️ Best tool to counter disinformation for Gen Z;

📚 Top media books, podcasts, and more;

🌍 The problems exiled journalists face in Europe;

🗞 The transformation of women's media in Ukraine;

✌️ Our weekly digest.

The Fix Media

03 Aug 2023 14:01

💭 “Journalism is part of the culture of a country, which is not easy for exiled journalists to learn” says André Linard, co-founder of a group that aids exiled journalists En-GAJE.

Integrating into the host country is just one of the many challenges faced by exiled journalists.

We look at exiled journalists’ tales of triumphs, trials and tribulations.

The Fix Media

01 Aug 2023 12:15

Looking for a productive way to spend your vacation? Here’s the ultimate list of recommendations – media books, podcasts, courses and even cities to catch up on.

The Fix Media

30 Jul 2023 18:02

✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including how the work of Ukraine's largest OSINT agency affects war reporting, why growth on X (aka Twitter) is still possible, and one case of how a newsroom leverages TikTok.

🔎 How OSINT agency Molfar impacts war coverage;

🐦 Some strategies for growth on Twitter in post-Musk times;

🎶 Legit Media Group's tips for TikTok;

✌️ Our weekly digest.

The Fix Media

27 Jul 2023 11:44

How to reach young people on TikTok? We spoke with Legit Media Group, which operates some of the biggest African media outlets, about their experience.

The Fix Media

25 Jul 2023 11:16

From forced logins to paid verification, growth on Elon Musk’s Twitter seems a Herculean task. Erika Marzano writes for The Fix about how she defied the odds and achieved growth on a news Twitter account in seven weeks.

The Fix Media

24 Jul 2023 15:51

Open-source intelligence has played a crucial role in reporting on Russia’s war against Ukraine. Sofiia Padalko looked at how Ukraine’s biggest OSINT agency @molfar_global shapes war reporting.

The Fix Media

21 Jul 2023 13:45

Diversity and representation in the newsroom are important both morally and for sustainable long-term development. In a column for The Fix, Marla Jones-Newman shares Mother Jones' best practices around ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion.

The Fix Media

19 Jul 2023 11:12

👋 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 will face a formal review of its funding model later this year, The Times reports. Advertising and subscriptions will be considered among the alternatives to the current mechanism, which relies primarily on the licence fee, a de-facto tax on British citizens.

▪️Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced a $5 million support fund for local news publishers in the United States in partnership with the American Journalism Project.

▪️Vox Media is dropping Chorus, a proprietary content management system (CMS) the company developed and once licenced to other publishers. The publisher will switch to using WordPress VIP.

📍 Find out more in this week's digest.

The Fix Media

17 Jul 2023 14:07

📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: AI will come for non-newsroom departments first

▪️The articles featured pertain to how news outlets are using Threads, AI tools to help find disinformation, and how some Russian business media manage to convey some truth despite the circumstances;

▪️Interesting insights on Riga's emergence as a hub for Russian media in exile, and the struggles of fine-tuning the internal website search from our colleagues at Semafor, and The Atlantic.

▪️Great opportunities from GIJN, Thomson Foundation, The Times, Politico Europe, and The Fix.

📍Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for more news on the European media space!

The Fix Media

18 Aug 2023 11:00

Financial security is the biggest challenge for local outlets in Europe. Here's how publishers are managing to maintain their operation and help sustain democracy.

The Fix Media

15 Aug 2023 10:16

📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Are you (really) listening to your audience?

▪️The articles featured pertain to tips to improve project management in newsrooms, why trustworthy journalism is still in demand, how to audit your newsroom for audience listening, and handy tools for virtual newsrooms;

▪️Interesting insights on The Atlantic journey to profitability, and Bonnier News' expansion into the English-speaking market from our colleagues at Axios, and Press Gazette.

▪️Great opportunities from The National Endowment for Democracy, The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, Berliner Zeitung, and The Wall Street Journal.

📍Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for more news on the European media space!

The Fix Media

11 Aug 2023 14:21

Struggle to manage a hybrid team of journalists? We’ve reviewed a range of dedicated virtual offices for remote and hybrid newsrooms.

The Fix Media

09 Aug 2023 17:04

👋 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 Company reported its results for the past quarter this week, showing higher-than-expected earnings. The publisher acquired 180,000 new digital subscribers in the second quarter and reported total revenue of $590.9 million, a 6.3% increase year-over-year.

▪️GB News, Britain’s right-leaning TV channel, is facing four additional investigations over impartiality by media regulator Ofcom, in addition to three investigations already pending. The regulator is examining whether GB News broke rules around politicians’ hosting news programs, as well as regulations on conducting political campaigns.

📍 Find out more in this week's digest.

The Fix Media

07 Aug 2023 15:22

“Good project management is hard to find in newsrooms”, Robin Kwong, New Formats Editor at The Wall Street Journal, writes in his new guide by the Association for Project Management.

We spoke with him about why journalism has struggled with project management and what it takes to successfully implement a project in a newsroom.

📲 Read the interview

The Fix Media

04 Aug 2023 14:58

In Ukraine, feminist media are tackling both the war reality and hackneyed stereotypes.

We profiled Wonderzine Ukraine and Divoche Media ✍️

The Fix Media

02 Aug 2023 12:07

👋 Weekly news digest: French newspaper strike ends, News Corp use of AI in local news

Here are this week's stories picked by our team:

▪️Staff at French newspaper Journal du Dimanche (JDD), which had embarked on the longest strike in French media in decades over the appointment of a far-right-friendly chief editor by the outlet’s new owner, decided to end the strike. The journalists have acknowledged they wouldn’t win the standoff with the new owner Vivendi, controlled by conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré. Still, the fight will result in dozens of journalists leaving the newspaper, which currently employs around 100 reports.

▪️News Corp Australia has made use of generative AI in hyperlocal news an important part of its business strategy, executive chairman Michael Miller said at the recent WAN-IFRA’s World News Media Congress in Taipei. While the use of AI to generate simple stories like weather and traffic reports isn’t groundbreaking at this point, the scale of News Corp’s reliance on generative AI is interesting. Miller said that a team of four staff are overseeing the creation of 3,000 articles a week on dozens of locations in Australia.

📍 Find out more in this week's digest

The Fix Media

31 Jul 2023 11:44

New from The Fix: Diana Filimon, co-founder of Romania's leading outlet for young people, argues that Gen Z are neither better equipped to reject fake news nor easier to manipulate – but they are underinformed. News media should try harder to reach young audiences in their style.

The Fix Media

28 Jul 2023 18:00

🗞 Telegram: messenger-turned-news platform

Millions of people use the platform for messaging, but also for various other purposes – from getting air raid alerts in Ukraine to reading news all over the world. In recent years we reported on its use cases and compiled top Telegram channels lists. In this month's digest we focus on Telegram's impact in Eastern Europe.

Here is a selection of our coverage of Telegram:

▪️ How one Telegram channel almost managed a revolution in Belarus;

▪️ How Belarusian media leverage the platform in exile;

▪️ A look at top Telegram channels to follow developments in Ukraine one year into full-scale war;

▪️ How Ukrainian media rely on the platform to deliver their reporting;

▪️ Pro-war camp in Russia also uses Telegram to promote its agenda;

▪️ What news channels Russian citizens actually willingly follow here.

The Fix Media

26 Jul 2023 15:08

👋 Weekly news digest: media independence in France, Google’s AI tool to write news articles

Here are this week's stories picked by our team:

▪️In France, a public discussion around media independence has ensued in recent weeks as staff of prominent newspaper Journal du Dimanche (JDD) have embarked on the longest strike for French media in decades. JDD journalists are protesting the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune, a journalist with links to far-right groups, as the editor-in-chief.

▪️Google is testing a product that relies on artificial intelligence to produce news stories. The New York Times reports that “the tool, known internally by the working title Genesis, can take in information — details of current events, for example — and generate news content”. It was pitched privately to major US news organisations like The New York Times, The Washington Post and News Corp.

📍 Find out more in this week's digest

The Fix Media

24 Jul 2023 17:04

📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Advertising your subscription deals more effectively

▪️The articles featured pertain to where AI should come first, recent research roundup, and Mother Jones' diversity initiatives;

▪️Interesting insights on The Washington Post's personalised onboarding experience, and Vox Media's vast podcast business from our colleagues at The Audiencers, and Digiday.

▪️Great opportunities from UNESCO, The Incubator for Media Education and Development, Reporters Without Borders, International Media Support, and The Fix Foundation.

📍Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for more news on the European media space!

The Fix Media

23 Jul 2023 18:01

✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including where AI should come first, recent research roundup, and Mother Jones' diversity initiatives.

🤖 Why non-newsroom department should embrace AI;

🧑‍🔬 What research says about the media industry;

🫂 Mother Jones' efforts to foster diversity;

✌️ Our weekly digest.

The Fix Media

20 Jul 2023 17:12

Do people read ads placed alongside news content? How can publishers advertise their subscription deals more effectively? We look at these questions and more in the latest edition of The Fix’s research roundup.

The Fix Media

18 Jul 2023 15:40

We spend too much time thinking about how AI will shape newsrooms. But in our experience, generative AI today has the most potential for non-newsroom departments in media organisations, like marketing and HR. Here's why.

The Fix Media

16 Jul 2023 18:01

✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including how news outlets are using Threads, AI tools to help find disinformation, and how some Russian business media manage to convey some truth despite the circumstances.

🧵 Some ways to approach Meta's new "Twitter competitor";

🤖 AI tools to detect disinformation;

🗞 How Russian business outlets fare amid crackdown.