This is what Mobile Journalism looks like today

Mobile Journalism has come a long way in 30 years, writes Robb Montgomery.

Blowing up some myths about online news video

“What we’re talking about today is opportunities for online video, but I’m also going to be brutally honest about some of the problems too, and I think that involves exploding a few of the myths around video,” Nic Newman told participants at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference this week in Copenhagen.

The rise of VR, live video and new content formats

Publishers around the world are launching new product formats to feed their audiences’ growing demand for mobile, video and innovative ad solutions. Joon-Nie Lau followed the presentation of case studies from Malaysia, South Korea and the USA at last autumn’s Digital Media Asia conference in Singapore.

Attacks on the press: the new face of censorship

Many reports have been written about the deteriorating state of freedom of expression around the world, but very few capture the mind-boggling diversity of ways that journalists and news organisations have been attacked, harassed, intimidated or shut down quite the way CPJ’s new report Attacks on the Press does, writes Javier Garza Ramos, safety advisor to the World Editors Forum.

How The Economist is attracting Millennials

“We’re not expecting 16-year-olds to use their pocket money to take out an Economist subscription. That’s not what we’re going for. But it is about getting them into the ecosystem and showing them the depth and the breadth and the diversity of what we do,” James Waddell of The Economist told participants at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference on Monday in Copenhagen.

European Digital Media Awards winners honoured

The winners of this year’s European Digital Media Awards were honoured on the first day of WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe Conference in Copenhagen.

Journalists on Trump: “We’re not at war. We’re at work”

There can be few festivals on the planet quite like the Perugia International Journalism Festival. It’s one of those rare industry events that successfully crosses over into being something, somehow, for everybody. It’s a real festival of the mind, full of fascinating insights that seem as though they’d be edifying to anyone with even a passing interest in how we communicate.

VGTV – another Schibsted spinout setting the trends

Scandinavian powerhouse Schibsted has never shied away from spinning out one of its disruptive digital operations from its own legacy brands to actually compete with them. Its Norwegian tabloid daily Verdens Gang (VG) first did this with its website (VG.no) and then with mobile. And since 2014, VG has been doing the same with its video division, VGTV.

Facebook and Google happy to monetise, not monitor, fake news

Given the enormous impact the distribution of fake news on Facebook and Google is having on society, one would think the tech giants would take the matter seriously, writes Stephen Rae, Group Editor-in-Chief at INM. Yet, it appears their interest lies in monetising rather than monitoring the phenomenon.

How three European media organisations are bringing news to refugees

Three leading media organisations in Europe have joined forces in a bid to bring trustworthy information to migrants and refugees, and dispel rumours and false reports spread by human traffickers.