Visual-first journalism at The New York Times (and everywhere)

“It comes as no surprise to me that visual-first journalism is at the core of The New York Times’ new digital strategy,” writes Robb Montgomery, a WAN-IFRA Advisory Services Associate Consultant, in this guest post, which first appeared on his blog.

The user journey: How to design for the ‘wow’ moments

Exploring the user journey is the most important tool for creating amazing digital products. Mapping this out will help you understand how to extend moments of happiness and how to turn frustrations into opportunities, says Lidia Oshlyansky, VP User Experience in Schibsted.

A snapshot of startups at Media Honeypot

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With more than 70 innovative startups attending Media Honeypot – the Helsinki-based event bringing together startups and media houses – chances are high publishers will find new solutions to the slew of challenges they’re facing today.

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Facebook and matters of fact in the post-truth era

In 2016 media learned the hard way that journalism is in danger of being overwhelmed by rogue politics and a communications revolution that accelerates the spread of lies, misinformation and dubious claims, writes Aidan White, director of the Ethical Journalism Network, which today launches a special report Ethics in the News on current ethical challenges to journalists.

BBC’s Shishkin: ‘3 quotes I always use in digital transformation projects’

Over the past few years I’ve been involved in a number of digital news change projects at the BBC, either related to workflow changes, reprioritisation of content creation, and I thought it would be helpful to share a few thoughts on how I approach what is undoubtedly one of the hot areas in the news industry, says Dmitry Shishkin, Digital Development Editor, BBC World Service, author of this guest column.

World Digital Media Awards 2016: Belly Off ‘works out’ and pays off for Media24

In early 2015, the editors of Men’s Health at Media24 in South Africa came up with a way to try to raise some mobile revenue. Essentially the plan was this: Take a popular page from their magazine about workouts and diet plans, expand it and build it into a mobile-first, payment-based service that anyone could use to lose weight and get into better shape and then promote it across all the existing Men’s Health platforms: print, digital and social media within South Africa.

Media Innovation Mapping – Media Innovation Labs around the world

Media Innovation Mapping research seeks to understand innovation and the organisational structures that exist with news publishers, content producers, research institutions and clusters and technology providers.

New WAN-IFRA Report: Best Practice in Digital Media

Innovation knows no boundaries, and that has never been more evident than in this year’s World Digital Media Awards winners. More importantly, it reaffirms that publishers can glean best practice from all corners of the globe: Oman, South Africa, India, Mexico, Germany…

The success story of La Presse’s move from print to tablet

Last week, our Spanish member association AEDE held their annual conference. One of the lead speakers was Guy Crevier, President and Editor of Canadian La Presse, who detailed the turnaround of the title’s business model, and shared the very encouraging numbers of its success.

Top 2017 New Year’s resolution: help keep the British press free

A public consultation launched by the UK government and ending on 10 January could have chilling consequences to press freedom both in Britain and around the world. We encourage all those passionate about freedom of expression to make their voice heard by joining the campaign #FreethePress.