The go-to mobile-editing app for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts has slipped in problematic new terms for newsrooms which risks source safety and surrenders copyright
As Newman reflects on more than a decade of documenting journalism's most turbulent transformation, we explore the uncomfortable truths his research revealed: Why has building audience trust remained journalism's most elusive goal? What made tablets the industry's most expensive false dawn? And were there early warning signs that personality-driven influencers would eventually challenge traditional newsrooms?
"Newsrooms must be willing to experiment, without expecting instant results," says Jonathan Paterson, contributing editor at The News Movement
Changes to platforms and user behaviour make 'like and subscribe' calls to action at the end of clips less efficient. Here is what works and how to do it
Traditional media will have to re-evaluate their strategies to engage with younger audiences
Meta landed a Zuckerpunch to the media industry by ending Facebook and Instagram fact-checking ahead of the Trump administration
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Traditional media will struggle to keep up with creators on TikTok or Substack. Your biggest competitors will be new media startups, journalists going solo and online personalities
The Telegraph, News Broadcasting Digital and The News Movement are using platforms like YouTube and TikTok to create new revenue streams. Or are they just chasing the algorithm?
News UK's digital broadcaster says that long watch times and hitting the right markets trump big subscription numbers
The digital radio broadcaster has amassed 1m subscribers on the social video platform - but a vanity metric does not pay the bills. We learn that revenue comes from longer watch time and reaching the right markets
Euphemisms and alternative spellings of sex and drugs can get around TikTok's content moderation system
Sub-reddits, karma, AMAs and more all jargon-busted and explained how they can help your newsroom get closer to highly engaged audiences
Go beyond the worn-out Q&A format and get your interviewees to share in-depth and personal stories
News publishers, writers and tech companies are tapping into the platform's large, professional user base but get frustrated by the lack of features and analytics. We asked LinkedIn what they are going to do about it
Publishers must shore up their distribution and business models before big tech platforms get even more reactionary
The professional networking platform has introduced collaborative articles and the Community Top Voices feature to boost your online reputation
A social media expert talks about the pros and cons of jumping on the latest social app bandwagon
Although the new Meta app is not courting the news industry the same way Twitter did, publishers are excited about building up new audiences
As more countries eyeing up their own News Bargaining Code, platform repayments could damage innovation and consumer interests
We are organising courses in data journalism, iPhone reporting, open data for journalists and creating a buzz on social media
Beet.TV has an interesting video with Michael Zimbalist, vice president for research & development, and operations at the New York Times, in which he discusses a new advertising tool called Spark which utilises the Times’s data on stories trending on social media. According to Beet.TV the tool “serves display advertising into stories as they are [...]
A look at the four main points which came out of a Google+ Hangout, hosted by Storyful on the subject of verification during Hurricane Sandy
An annual study into how UK journalists feel social media impacts on their work was announced this week by Canterbury Christ Church University and public relations and media services outlet Cision. The report’s findings are based on 769 responses from UK journalists. According to a release from the university the study found an “increasing number [...]
Al Jazeera's Riyaad Minty and Mark Little's Storyful on why news outlets must understand the relationship between news reporting and social media
The Guardian's US operation announces the launch of a new socially-driven aggregation series called #smarttakes
A conversation was sparked on the effect of social media sharing buttons by the designer Oliver Reichenstein on his blog informationArchitects
A report by J-Lab has found that even though online news start-ups have access to a wide range of social media tools, they struggle with how to measure their impact
The Guardian's Alastair Dant shares the news outlet's approach to using interactivity to present data and stories to their audience
Bitly, the popular link shortener used by lots of news websites, announces its ‘bitmark’ service
Online noticeboard n0tice launches app to auto-post updates to Facebook
Muck Rack is a site that aggregates Twitter and social media feeds for thousands of professional journalists
'It's about building relationships on Facebook and monetizing outside', according to the Economist's global publisher, digital editions
Daily Mail and Telegraph stories get most Google +1 recommendations
'It's only a matter of time until social overtakes search for the Guardian,' says Tanya Cordrey, director of digital development at Guardian News and Media
Sky News's digital news editor Neal Mann, known to 43,000 people on Twitter as @fieldproducer, has announced he has decided to leave the broadcaster.
Sky News emails staff telling them not to retweet - a round-up of opinion
A tool for tracking the sharing of news stories on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter
This new platform helps you monitor Facebook, Twitter, blogs and could become a favourite tool of data journalists
You can now see how stories from the UK's top 10 news sites are shared on social media – and view the social media 'ripples' created by stories on your own news site
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Reporters who have worked under Putin, Erdogan and the Taliban share what they have learned about how autocrats consolidate power and how communities can fight back against the erosion of democratic freedom
Leaders from The Times, Sky News and Reuters reveal why chasing fewer but more engaged readers - and embracing AI as a creative tool rather than a threat - is proving more profitable than old-school mass reach strategies
A TikTok master with 100m views, a paywall pioneer with 3,000 subscribers, and a community visionary backed by local businesses share their strategies for making independent journalism pay beyond ads
Slovakia's Dennik N broke three years of subscriber stagnation with an innovative anniversary campaign, while The New Statesman transformed podcasts from a side project into a powerful growth engine – both offering valuable lessons for media companies hitting plateaus
