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We are reviving Toolbox, a series on digital tools used by news publishers. For this edition, we spoke with the Danish outlet Zetland about external tools they rely on and their own product development, including Good Tape service for audio transcription.
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Major journalism organisations and schools are starting to establish a presence on Meta's Threads app to discuss trends in digital media. Check out some top accounts to follow like Nieman Lab, Poynter, Columbia Journalism Review, and more for insights on innovation, challenges, and the future of the industry.
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Portugal wakes up to a crisis in journalism after a big media group announced a financial crisis that would lead to the dismissal of almost 200 journalists in historic newspapers. Journalists are finally coming together in the search for solutions for the profession’s survival, Francisca Valentim writes in her 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:
▪️DMGT, a British media company that owns the Daily Mail and other titles, showed revenue growth in 2023 “as a strong performance from UAE-headquartered B2B events division offset falling income at its UK consumer newsbrands”, Press Gazette reports.
▪️Over in the US, tech outlet 404 Media said it was profitable six months after launch, NiemanLab reports. The publisher is small but interesting for its ownership structure – it’s wholly owned by the journalists. “404 Media’s founders and co-owners — a staff of four — all come from Motherboard, Vice’s tech vertical”, NiemanLab writes.
▪️Axel Springer, the European media giant headquartered in Germany, announced its new US leadership team.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
The Fix spoke to inside story's co-founder Dimitris Xenakis about how his Greek-based investigative platform has financially sustained itself solely on a subscription model.
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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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👋 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 is working on a generative AI advertising tool it plans to debut next quarter, Axios reports.
▪️Director general of the BBC Tim Davie told a parliamentary committee that he is pleased with the new licence fee deal with the government, The Guardian reports.
▪️A new investigation by The Washington Post uncovered a large-scale disinformation campaign against Ukraine by the Kremlin.
📍 Find out more in this week's digest.
📰 What's Inside The Fix Weekly Newsletter: Thriving without ads
▪️The articles featured pertain to a profile of a Greek investigative media, how the war affected Russian social networks, and a look into a media crisis in Portugal;
▪️Interesting insights on late Alexei Navalny’s history as an anti-corruption investigator, and Blick's strategy behind the launch of a freemium paywall from our colleagues at OCCRP and Press Gazette;
▪️Great opportunities from Journalismfund Europe, The Seek Initiative, and The Media Development Foundation and International Press Institute.
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✌️ Good evening! Here is the full list of stories we had this week, including a profile of a Greek investigative media, how the war affected Russian social networks, and a look into a media crisis in Portugal.
🔎 How one investigative outlet thrives without ads;
📱 Russian social media two years into the war;
🇵🇹 Portugal's journalism crisis;
✌️ Our weekly digest.
Russia’s censorship and the withdrawal of foreign companies from the Russian market have also carved out a space for new social media platforms. But are they successful? Veronica Snoj explores in her latest article for The Fix.
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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.
📍Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for more news on the European media space!
👋 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.
🗓 Sign up for free before 12th Feb.
📰 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.
📍Subscribe to our weekly newsletter for more news on the European media space!
🫰 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.
