News Why US local business news site BoiseDev is ditching paywalls in favour of ‘timewalls’ The publisher launches a new subscription service which gives readers community-orientated articles in advance By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
News The Quint trials interactive ads within messaging chatbots to boost revenue streams The Indian mobile-first news publisher will offer commercial promotions to its one million subscribers across all messaging platforms, hoping to improve engagement metrics fivefold By Jacob Granger • 2 min read
News From cabinets to Google Cloud: NYT revisits history with Past Tense series by digitising six-million photo archive Using Google Cloud Storage and Cloud Vision API, the publisher can sift through 'The Morgue' image archive to retell stories of the past. By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
News Sky Sports addresses the lack of women, LGBT and BAME people in sports reporting Inclusion initiatives are helping under-represented communities unlock their potential in the newsroom and boost audience engagement in the process By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
News Social Media Solutions programme helps Arabic journalists improve online content and cybersecurity 2,500 journalists from the Middle East and North Africa will be trained on social media verification and digital security, as well as audience engagement and video storytelling by The International Center for Journalists By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
News CrossCheck Nigeria targets WhatsApp as a hotspot for fake news 16 news organisations are working together as part of a ‘watchdog project’ to debunk politically motivated mis- and disinformation ahead of the 2019 Nigerian election By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
News How the Engaged Journalism Accelerator empowers journalists to tell community stories Greek non-profit Solomon will train 12 journalists from around the world in slow news with a new European Journalism Centre funding scheme By Jacob Granger • 2 min read
News Fighting misinformation by sending journalists to secondary schools UK charity The Student View brings journalists and underperforming pupils together to help teenagers understand news and develop their leadership potential By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
News Newsrooms must watch out for burnout in young reporters Young minds are crucial for digital innovation but often those most at risk are the least likely to raise the red flag By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
News Facebook: ‘We have a responsibility’ to help local news organisations find sustainable business models 80 journalists will receive NCTJ training in a £4.5m Community News Project launching in 2019 By Jacob Granger • 2 min read
News Tools for journalists: Gmail plug-ins to improve your productivity As journalists, we can spend a lot of our time in our e-mail inboxes, so try these free plug-ins aim to make follow-up e-mails and staying in touch faster By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
News How adopting a different business model can help future-proof news organisations Our business models panel from newsrewired discuss how cooperative memberships, collaborative networking and charity status could help local news organisations thrive By Jacob Granger • 6 min read
