New data from Chartbeat shows that while Facebook referrals to publishers are on the decline, overall mobile traffic is on the increase.
Frederic Filloux says subscription fatigue is looming and publishers that offer poor service and little value will be the first to lose customers.
The Times' New Products and Ventures team, launched eight months ago, is focused on finding new areas in which the publisher can build a subscriber base.
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen says that many of the widely held assumptions that underpin debates on journalism are in fact wrong.
A number of women journalists have spoken out about what it's like to criticise Elon Musk and then have to face days of abuse from his fans.
Trust is the wrong metric for measuring the quality of our journalism, says Tow Center for Digital Journalism director. "Optimise for reliability, consistency, original reporting, accuracy, willingness to publish corrections etc."
In his role as Special Projects editor, Robin was behind the FT’s interactive Uber game, its fifth most-read story of 2017. He has since moved on to head the FT’s new Digital Delivery team.
With GDPR now in force, some publishers have opted to simply shut down access to their news for European readers. Others offer European readers a text-only version, and The Washington Post added a special European subscriber option, for an extra $30 a year.
A typical day inside the BBC's innovation incubator includes messenger bots, Git, search tools and accelerated mobile pages.
In a conversation with the Global Editors Network, Anna Bateson, chief customer officer at the Guardian talks about the Guardian’s reader-first strategy, taking inspiration from other industries, and funny job titles.
The newsletter is the "behind the scenes" version of reporter Pamela Colloff's investigation into Joe Bryan, a Texas high school principal convicted of murdering his wife.
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