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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Partnering with tech giants; Denník N’s road to 70,000 subscribers
▪️The articles featured pertain to lessons from a top Slovak outlet, and ways to combine data and AI at a media organisation;
▪️Interesting insights on news companies are reversing course on hard subscriptions, and Google Gemini’s capabilities and the implications of its release from our colleagues at Axios and The Verge;
▪️Great opportunities from National Endowment for Democracy, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and 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:
▪️US-based digital news outlet Semafor announced a deal with Microsoft to use AI for helping develop news stories.
▪️After years of going all in on the subscription model, Substack is experimenting with helping creators sell ads on its platform. The company has implemented “a new pilot program that helps creators on its platform find advertisers and coordinate ad buys”, Axios reports.
▪️Ukrainian investigative outlet Bihus.Info reported that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) illegally surveilled its team.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
How has Denník N attracted 70,000 paid subscribers over the past decade? We spoke with Veronika Munk, Director of Innovation and New Markets, to chart the main lessons from the Slovak outlet’s journey to a major CEE publisher.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including some tips on how to find solutions to cover, why Substack may not be the best option for European authors, and one journalist's path from reporting to management.
🧐 Where to find material for your solutions journalism;
✉️ Why European authors may want to consider alternatives to Substack;
📝 A profile of the managing editor job;
✌️ Our weekly digest.
We need to talk about Substack’s Nazi problem from a European perspective and admit that one era of newsletters is behind us, David Tvrdon writes in a new piece for The Fix.
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📺 Get access to an exclusive webinar on putting solutions journalism into practice by signing up for The Fix's free newsletter course, which explores how newsrooms can introduce solutions journalism for more engaging reporting and audience growth.
📝 Written by Emma Löfgren of The Local Sweden, the 7-week course provides strategies to overcome inertia and implement solutions coverage.
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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Real AI strategies; news media layoffs
▪️The articles featured pertain to our selection of media degrees, a guide to covering elections, and what the role of an AI consultant entails;
▪️Interesting insights on mass layoffs in the US news industry, and approaches to community management from our colleagues at The Rebooting, and Mx3;
▪️Great opportunities from the Media Development Foundation, Global Investigative Journalism Network, Thomson Reuters Foundation, and European Centre for Press and Media Freedom.
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🫰 Tackling the monetisation challenge: the rise of nonprofit news
With commercial pressures posing risks to unbiased, fact-based reporting, the notion of identifying news and information as a public good rather than a private commodity has gained traction. In this digest, we explore the nonprofit model through recent discussions and experiments within the industry.
▪️ How Mother Jones successfully operates a nonprofit national news outlet in the US;
▪️ The charity case for investigative journalism;
▪️ New media NGOs shaping Russian journalism;
▪️ What plagues nonprofit media outlets;
▪️ How Ukraine’s public broadcaster operates during the war – interview with Suspilne’s CEO Mykola Chernotytskyi.
👋 So what news has this week brought us in the field of media?
Here are this week's stories picked by our team:
▪️The situation with press freedom in Kyrgyzstan took a turn for the worse over the past several weeks as the authorities raided the offices of several news organisations and arrested journalists.
▪️The US news industry saw a new round of layoffs and restructuring over the past week as both legacy outlets and digital media startups are struggling financially.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
Looking for a meaningful media course? Here are some that you might miss browsing through university rankings and advertising.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including a look at this year's media trends, DW's TikTok strategy, and what disinformation to expect amid 2024 elections.
📹 Return to video and the role of AI in media trends;
🎵 What we can learn from Deutsche Welle's approach to TikTok;
ℹ️ Disinformation themes in the year of elections;
✌️ 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:
▪️Thomson Reuters announced the purchase of World Business Media (WBM), an insurance industry publisher. WBM is based in London and is a provider of analytics and editorial coverage on the insurance and reinsurance industries, including The Insurer outlet, The Insurer TV and an events business.
▪️Artifact, a news aggregation platform launched by Instagram co-founders over a year ago, announced it would shut down. Artifact launched as a news reading app that evolved to a curation and news discovery platform.
▪️On Monday, Russia launched its pro-government version of Wikipedia, called Ruwiki. The website is the most high-profile attempt so far to build an online encyclopedia filtered through the lens of pro-Kremlin propaganda.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
2024 will bring less hype to AI in the newsrooms and more practical use. Media leaders surveyed for the Journalism trends report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism will push more video and focus less on podcasts, David Tvrdon writes in his latest article for The Fix.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including the significance of Vogue Polska's AI-generated cover, how to deal with Slapp cases, the hardships of female journalists in Italy, and our latest research overview.
🤖 How Vogue Polska's move split the Polish media sphere;
👊 Ways for journalists to protect themselves against Slapp cases;
🇮🇹 The struggles of Italian women journalists;
🧑🎓 What recent media research says;
✌️ Our weekly digest.
A report sheds light on the precarious condition of Italy’s women journalists. We spoke with its author Alice Facchini and freelance reporter Claudia Torrisi.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including lessons from a top Slovak outlet, and ways to combinate data and AI at a media organisation.
📰 Dennik N's journey towards 70,000 paid subsribers;
🤖 Tips on combining data and AI in your newsroom;
✌️ Our weekly digest.
In partnership with Smartocto, we look at three ways to utilise AI for publishers: conducting user needs analysis, choosing better headlines, and getting automated advice for different roles of the organisation.
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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Lessons from The Messenger’s fallout; Substack alternatives
▪️The articles featured pertain to some tips on how to find solutions to cover, why Substack may not be the best option for European authors, and one journalist's path from reporting to management;
▪️Interesting insights on Spotify's new multiyear deal with Joe Rogan, and the "content exclusivity dam breaking" from our colleague Simon Owens;
▪️Great opportunities from The Financial Times, The Associated Press, and The Fix.
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New from The Fix’s series on media jobs – Anton Protsiuk spoke with Kait Bolongaro about her position as Managing Editor for Europe at MLex Market Insight and her path from reporter to manager.
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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:
▪️The news industry in the US and UK has seen further layoffs as publishers are cutting costs amidst disappointing financial results and an uncertain business outlook.
▪️Top news publishers are racing to build their generative AI products and employ AI in newsroom operations. Most recently, Bloomberg started providing AI summaries of companies earning calls for its trading terminal.
▪️The Russian government continues its crackdown on the remaining independent press and building up its propaganda machine. Most recently, the Kremlin pronounced @doxajournal, a prominent student magazine, an “undesirable organisation”, essentially outlawing it.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
In a world of problems, where are the solutions? Here’s an excerpt from Emma Löfgren’s course on solutions journalism for The Fix that looks at how to find solutions to report on.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including our selection of media degrees, a guide to covering elections, and what the role of an AI consultant entails.
📚 Media degrees to enhance career prospects;
🗳️ How to cover elections;
🤖 A profile of the AI consultant job;
✌️ Our weekly digest.
We spoke with Mattia Peretti, AI consultant and learning experience designer, about his approach to his career, and his advice for newsrooms on approaching generative AI.
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Traditional reporting methods can fuel polarisation and misinformation. We talked with fact-checkers Giovanni Zagni and Stamos Archontis to find a more factual and insightful approach to covering elections.
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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Trends for 2024
▪️The articles featured pertain to a look at this year's media trends, DW's TikTok strategy, and what disinformation to expect amid 2024 elections;
▪️Interesting insights on the threats of AI-generated content flooding the web, the problematics of having a billionaire as the owner of your media, and how Apple Podcasts' change in algorithm affected major shows from our colleagues at 404 Media, The New York Times, and Semafor;
▪️Great opportunities from Deutsche Welle Akademie, Mixer, Free Press Unlimited, and Financial Times.
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We talked with the European Digital Media Observatory Task Force to narrow down the key disinformation themes that will be seen ahead of the 2024 European elections.
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Ever wondered how media organisations adapt to the ever-changing short-video platform? Erika Marzano, project manager in Deutsche Welle's Audience Development team, explores how her outlet crafts its TikTok strategy amidst algorithmic challenges and competition.
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📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: The power of humour
▪️The articles featured pertain to the significance of Vogue Polska's AI-generated cover, how to deal with SLAPP cases, the hardships of female journalists in Italy, and our latest research overview;
▪️Interesting insights on annual trends and predictions report by Nic Newman, and OpenAI's public response to a suit filed by The New York Times from our colleagues at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and OpenAI;
▪️Great opportunities from JournalismAI, Rest of World, the International Center for Journalists, and Reporters Without Borders.
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In our latest article, Anna Sofia Lippolis reviews three recent research studies: on the power of humour in Ukraine’s fight against Russia, journalist networks, and young people’s perception of news.
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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:
▪️The death toll of the Israel-Gaza war continues to rise, marking the conflict to be the deadliest one for journalists in recent decades. According to estimations by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), “at least 79 journalists and media workers were among the more than 24,000 killed since the war began on October 7” as of January 9.
▪️In recent years YouTube has emerged as one of the dominant platforms for podcast listening, despite the video platforms limited functionality for podcasts. YouTube has been building up more audio functionality, most recently with debuting RSS integration.
▪️In late December, The New York Times sued ChatGPT creator OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged illegal use of the publisher’s content in training their large language models, marking the most prominent creator lawsuit against an AI company so far. This week OpenAI came out with a public response to the legal action.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
