Ian Davies died
Ian Davies, director of group business development for Archant Media Group in UK, and friend of my wife Sarah and me, was killed in a plane crash on Wednesday, 29th of October. We have known him for...
View ArticleTop 5 measures in the newsroom for 2009
As a consequence of the economic downturn, many publishing houses are engaging once again in intensive discussions about how to reduce costs in the newsroom. In the U.S.A., many newspapers started to...
View ArticleFrom mass medium to individual information provider: What comes after the...
Today, media-integrated newsrooms are viewed as an accepted solution for meeting the challenges of the digital media in connection with the printed newspaper. However, because the majority of newsrooms...
View ArticleCrisis opportunities
As difficult as it might be to believe, the current crisis offers news publishers some important opportunities. First, because it was a long time in the making (steady circulation declines, for...
View ArticleBoost synergies in a multi-title newsroom
Today’s economic situation demands that news publishing houses must work as efficiently as possible. For medium to large publishing companies producing several titles and brands on print and/or...
View ArticleThe multi-title newsroom – two case studies from Europe
Many reorganisation projects in the last years have shown that changes in a classical newspaper newsroom are a necessity and not an exception. Adapting and reorganising outdated processes and...
View ArticleA new tool for a quick newsroom convergence check-up and benchmarking
Often when we ask newsroom executives around the world “Is your newsroom operation working in an integrated way and are your journalists telling stories across platforms,” the reply is “Yes, of course....
View ArticleStreamline your newsroom workflow through better story planning
Until recently, newsrooms had workflows that focused exclusively on print and were optimised for a once-a-day publication schedule. The newsroom routine was often based on a 24 hour rhythm, where every...
View ArticlePaid content: What to consider before you charge
While dozens if not hundreds of newspaper publishers around the world began charging for their digital content in the past year, thousands more are in the process of deciding if they should charge, and...
View ArticleNEW WEBSITE ONLINE
Finally it has arrived. Our new website of the Institute for Media Strategies is online! Come and have a look around. This blog will be transferred to the Institute page....
View ArticleMy view on cross-media communication for newspapers
Trends in the worldwide media industry have clearly shown that in order to guarantee long-term success with the audience in the future, it will be vital to change from a single product-oriented to a...
View ArticleChallenges for newspaper editorial in 2008
In 2006 and 2007 many things have changed in the newsrooms around the world. After years of thinking and talking about the “digital challenge”, online, mobile, audio, video and communities were finally...
View ArticleOnline communities: What makes them click?
Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace for nearly US$ 600 million, Google buys YouTube for US$ 1.6 billion and facebook.com develops from an Internet platform for students to the seventh-most visited website in...
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