The Miami Herald plans to cut 24 positions across its company, including six in the [...]
The Pulitzer Prize is once again updating its criteria to fit with the changing face of news reportage. The Pulitzer Board had changed the criteria last year to allow entries from non-print newsrooms as long as they were "primarily dedicated to original news reporting" [...]

"Absolutely essential" is how Tony Joseph, CEO and co-founder of Mindworks Global Media describes the need for editorial outsourcing.
Joseph, who spoke today during the first session of the World Editors Forum, illustrated the necessity for outsourcing and described its ability to alter cost-structure. Joseph believes outsourcing [...]
A UK managing editor says outsourcing should not replace editorial staff, but it can be extremely helpful if correctly managed. Twitter is changing the way almost every form of business is conducted. As reported by Media Guardian, its newest conquest is local
tourism and town information. Darlington, a town in north-eastern England, has just announced the hiring of a Twitterer-in-Residence.
Mike McTimoney, a schoolteacher, will use [...]
During the WAN-IFRA 2009 World Newspaper Congress, the founder of paidContent.org, Rafat Ali, said bloggers are not "poolside" entrepreneurs but actually put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into their work.
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In an iconic scene, Mahfuz Anam gave the World Editor's Forum attendees a persuasive, passionate speech illuminating the errors of newspapers and the keys to turning it around.
The newspaper business model is powerless to compensate for falling
print ad revenues, and the problem is not going to go away. The print
model cannot and will not migrate to the Internet, where there is a
"revenue black hole," in which 76 percent of all online revenues go to
Google [...] Brazilian director of operations of O Estado De S. Paulo, Rubens Prata, said he hopes to find innovation after attending the Free Press Roundtable discussion.
"It's a very good subject about the free press and business industry," he said.
Prata is hoping to find' [...]
Brazilian director of operations of O Estado De S. Paulo, Rubens Prata, said he hopes to find innovation after attending the Free Press Roundtable discussion.
"It's a very good subject about the free press and business industry," he said.
Prata is hoping to find [...]
Ahmed Benchemsi, publisher of Tel Quel, Morocco, has had many lawsuits filed against him.
One lawsuit involved a cover story about how drugs reflect sociology, religion, sex, and money.
While speaking at the Free Press Roundtable at the WAN-IFRA 2009 World Newspaper Congress - World Editors Forum in Hyderabad, India, Joze Ruben Zamora, publisher of El Periodico, Guatemala, detailed his battle against the oppression of free speech in his country.
Guatemala has a long history of violence, including [...]
Just a week after launching, The Detroit Daily Press has halted publishing until after the New Year.
In a statement on its Facebook page, the Daily Press states, "Due to circimstances [sic] beyond our control, lack of advertising, lateness of our press runs and lack of distribution and sales, we find it" [...]
To ease registration traffic, conference badges were sent to the hotels of participants if the hotel was known, said Poland native and information director, Anna Kwawczyk.
[...]Metro.co.uk has just launched a complete redesign of its web site.The Beta version, which went live yesterday, includes many changes with a focus "on improving navigation, channel and article templates and the site's overall aesthetics which we believe is an improvement on the present offering" [...]