News Community reactions to the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025 Platform battles, podcast revenue, AI personalisation and more: industry experts chew over all the revelations in the go-to media research paper By Jacob Granger • 11 min read
News Digital News Report 2025: legacy publishers bet big on AI, subscriptions and transparency Media leaders from Reuters, Sky News and The Observer say the old institutions are modernising themselves as the data shows audiences continue to be fickle, frugal and fragmented By Jacob Granger • 4 min read
News Ten talking points from the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025 Smartphone-driven consumption, creator-led alternative media, a global divide in AI adoption - it's all chop and change in the news industry and here's what your newsroom needs to know By Jacob Granger • 7 min read
Credit: Adam Tinworth, via One Man and his Blog News What the Financial Times learned from experimenting with AI Do not throw away the opportunities the new tech brings just because you are too scared of the threats (or you cannot be bothered to experiment) By Marcela Kunova • 2 min read
News How The Bristol Cable raised membership revenue by 25 per cent in a year The local media cooperative is on course for hitting its £60k campaign target, attracting big-spending patrons and asking existing members to up their contributions By Eliz Mizon • 5 min read
News RISJ Digital News Report 2024: Three essential points for your newsroom Top insights about paying for news, audiences' views on AI, social and video platforms, user needs and trust in news By Jacob Granger • 4 min read
News UK's older population targetted by health misinformation NewsGuard research shows that elderly readers are worried about online falsehoods and lack the tools and confidence to identify them By Jacob Granger • 2 min read
Credit: Photo by Infinity Shutter from Pexels News Quartz pivots from paywall to registration wall, making the bulk of online content free-to-read When 75 per cent of subscription conversions come from newsletters, it makes more sense for that place to become your primary "ask" to pay By Jacob Granger • 3 min read
Credit: Ochre Jelly on Flickr News Digital culture and internet reporting: why are these two beats rapidly growing? It is not all about cat memes - from news about influencers to brands' internet presence, the online world is full of real stories that matter to your audience By Fern McErlane • 4 min read
Credit: Telegram's newsroom in Zagreb, Croatia News Croatian investigative startup Telegram bets on subscriptions to drive revenue The outlet experiments with reader revenue model to finance its journalism and build resilience against costly lawsuits aiming to shut it down By Marcela Kunova • 3 min read
Credit: Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash News Subscription strategy lessons from The Atlantic, Bloomberg and Business Insider What can news publishers do to sweeten the pot for potential subscribers, or cash in on readers who are never going to return or pay for content? By Jacob Granger • 6 min read
Credit: Courtesy Reuters Institute News Reuters Institute Digital News Report: 'Overall, we feel quite optimistic about where the industry is heading' The pandemic has given the media a renewed sense of purpose reflected in increased public trust. But the news still proves hard to monetise By Jacob Granger • 4 min read
