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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Beyond news
▪️The articles featured pertain to how to respond to SLAPP suits, using education to boost income, the darker side of Telegram, different newsrooms' approaches to AI guidelines;
▪️Interesting insights on results and lessons a year into the launch of Semafor, and approaches used by different newsletters for creating their private community from Semafor founders Justin Smith and Ben Smith and our colleagues at Inbox Collective;
▪️Great opportunities from the International Labour Organization, Public Interest News Foundation, The Economist, and POLITICO.
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New from The Fix – how are newsrooms approaching creating guidelines for generative AI?
We looked at common patterns and spoke with Felix Simon, co-author of the recent comparative study.
👋 So what news has this week brought us in the field of media?
Here are this week's stories picked by our team:
▪️Italy’s government plans to cut the annual licence fee that funds public broadcaster RAI. Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini announced the licence fee will be reduced from 90 to 70 euros in the next year’s budget, following up on what his right-wing League party sees as a plan to abolish the fee altogether.
▪️The military conflict that started over a week ago following Hamas’ attack against Israel has had a heavy toll on journalists as part of its broader impact on the lives of civilians in Israel and Gaza. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) estimates that at least 17 journalists died as a result of the war as of October 17.
▪️The 2023 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism went to a consortium of Greek, German and British newsrooms that investigated the Messenia migrant boat disaster, which left around 600 migrants dead near the shores of Greece in June this year.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
Abusive lawsuits against European journalists are rising. We spoke with the Senior Legal Advisor at the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, Flutura Kusari about this growing concern and how journalists can get legal and financial support.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including survival strategies for media, how news outlets can protect women journalists from online hate, mastering YouTube Shorts, and how one Ukrainian media successfully monetised its podcast.
↔️ Running a newsroom in exile;
👩⚖️ Ways to protect female journos from online hate;
🎬 A guide to YouTube Shorts;
🤓 How The Village Ukraine turned its podcast into a book;
✌️ Our weekly digest.
Newsrooms are embracing short-form video. Here’s a playbook on creating and monetising YouTube Shorts by Iryna Boyko.
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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Traffic woes
▪️The articles featured pertain to how Russia's independent outlets function as NGOs, a call to describe your media job, and the media landscape challenges in Poland and Hungary;
▪️Interesting insights on WhatsApp's recent introduction of channels, and Emma Tucker’s efforts to modernise the newsroom and diversify the Wall Street Journal’s readership from our colleagues at Press Gazette, and The New York Times.
▪️Great opportunities from the New Democracy Fund, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, TikTok, and advertisement agency The Tellers.
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As European countries gear up for the upcoming parliamentary elections, we need more attention on media independence, especially in Poland and Hungary, Priyal Shah argues in the latest piece for The Fix.
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For the past months we at The Fix have been cataloguing different positions in the media industry. Now we want to learn more about your job!
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More and more independent Russian media initiatives opt to register as NGOs. This decision has consequences, Veronika Snoj argues in her latest article for The Fix.
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Our monthly series dives into journalism genres like explanatory, engaged, constructive, and solidarity. Discover how outlets worldwide are revitalizing news through explainer deep dives, community engagement techniques, solutions-driven stories, and giving voice to vulnerable groups.
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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:
▪️Spotify announced a new AI-powered voice translation feature that would automatically reproduce podcasts in other languages with the podcaster’s own voice. The pilot rollout includes several episodes translated from English into Spanish, French and German.
▪️French media tycoon Xavier Niel has purchased a stake at Le Monde that belonged to Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský, working towards a plan to transfer ownership of the major French newspaper to a foundation that would protect its editorial independence. Financial Times estimates the deal at around €50 million.
▪️The Financial Times grew its revenues by 5% to £458m in 2022 and saw particularly strong results in its advertising and events businesses, Press Gazette reports citing the company’s UK financial reporting and unaudited internal figures.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: The struggle of nonprofit news
▪️The articles featured pertain to the emergence of paid news podcasts, the challenges facing nonprofit media, and five noteworthy sessions at the upcoming media business forum;
▪️Interesting insights on Telegram’s role for news publishers, running a media outlet at the center of the tech ecosystem, and how AI will reshape work from our colleagues at Media Makers Meet, The Verge, and One Useful Thing.
▪️Great opportunities from Chevening Scholarship Program, Dow Jones, and The Fix.
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Registration, dynamic paywalls and lifetime value – those are the three audience trends an article from The Audiencers' Madeleine White recommends publishers focus on to build sustainable digital reader revenue models.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including how to respond to SLAPP suits, using education to boost income, the darker side of Telegram, different newsrooms' approaches to AI guidelines.
👊 How journalists can deal with abusive lawsuits;
🫰 The benefits of offering non-news educational content to your audience;
✈️ Telegram under scrutiny;
🤖 AI guidelines in news outlets;
✌️️ Our weekly digest.
Telegram is “the least transparent major tech company”, its prominent critic Yaroslav Azhnyuk says. We look at the recent scrutiny around the messenger – its role in spreading extremist propaganda and discussion in Ukraine around its purported Russian ties.
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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Protecting journalists from online hate
▪️The articles featured pertain to survival strategies for media, how news outlets can protect women journalists from online hate, mastering YouTube Shorts, and how one Ukrainian media successfully monetised its podcast;
▪️Interesting insights on NPR's six months without Twitter, The New York Times opinion section, and how paid podcasts fit into The Economist’s subscription strategy from our colleagues at NiemanReports, Press Gazette, and Digital Context Next.
▪️Great opportunities from Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, BBC Studios, Deutsche Welle, and The Fix.
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Book publishing might be a lucrative business opportunity for some publishers. Ira Hoiuk looked at how @villageua converted a popular psychology podcast into a bestselling book.
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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:
▪️France saw the launch of a new Sunday paper last weekend. La Tribune Dimanche is the first major print newspaper launched in the country in the last decade. As The Guardian reports, the paper is a “reinvention” of La Tribune, a popular financial newspaper that went fully digital three years ago.
▪️The Washington Post will cut about 240 jobs across the organisation in the wake of “overly optimistic” projections of traffic and revenue growth. The publisher’s interim CEO Patty Stonesifer noted in an email update to employees that the company hopes to avoid layoffs and achieve the cuts with voluntary buyouts.
▪️Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal detained in Russia, lost his appeal against the decision to extend his pre-trial detention. He remains in jail in Moscow, marking over half a year since the time he was detained under bogus espionage charges while reporting in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
Online attacks on women journalists are on the rise. Weaponised words can undermine their credibility, add mental health issues, and even push them to quit the profession. We look into how newsrooms can help their women journalists against the tide of online hate.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including how Russia's independent outlets function as NGOs, a call to describe your media job, and the media landscape challenges in Poland and Hungary.
📰 Russian media embracing the NGO model;
🥽 Insights into media professions;
🇪🇺 What's wrong with media in Poland and Hungary;
✌️ 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:
▪️A new report from Axios based on Similarweb data illustrates just how much traffic referrals to the top global news sites from Facebook and X (Twitter) has fallen over the past year.
▪️Publishers have been concerned about chatbots syphoning traffic since the launch of ChatGPT and similar tools a year ago. In recent days, though, the fears got accelerated as ChatGPT received an update that enables the tool to browse content on the internet in real time, as opposed to having a knowledge cutoff for everything published after September 2021.
▪️News UK and DMG Media, two of the biggest news publishers in the UK, are considering a plan to combine their print operations.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Fighting burnout in journalism
▪️The articles featured pertain to an overview of recent media research, ways to attract more female readers, how social media affects mental health, and the challenges faced by journalists in Romania;
▪️Interesting insights on the readiness to pay for news in the West, and the podcasters’ “comparative indifference” to AI from our colleagues at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and Soundbite newsletter.
▪️Great opportunities from Women in Advertising and Communications Leadership, Internews, and the Anne-Marie and Gustaf Ander Centre for Media Studies.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including an overview of recent media research, ways to attract more female readers, how social media affects mental health, and the challenges faced by journalists in Romania.
🧑🔬 Trends identified by media research;
📊 Strategies to overcome the gender news consumption gap;
🧠 The effects of social media on mental health;
🇷🇴 What it is like to be a journalist in Romania;
✌️ Our weekly digest.
Working with social media is now an integral part of every journalist's routine. However, the impact of social media on journalists' mental health should not be underestimated. Samuele Maccolini investigates how the new media landscape is making journalism more stressful.
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Global news industry is set to lose $11 billion if publishers don’t put efforts into retaining female readers. We look at three solutions that will help media outlets to better engage the women audience.
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How can public service media get consumers to pay for their content? How do French-speaking local media in Europe engage with their audiences? How is The New York Times leading the rise of forensic journalism? We explore in the new edition of The Fix's research roundup.
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