The mobile media revolution is about business not just distribution
by Kevin Anderson on February 26, 2013
Last year, the number of internet subscribers doubled in Zimbabwe, largely due to the increase in mobile internet users. The mobile revolution is here, and news organisations need to think beyond how to distribute their content to mobile audiences and already think about how they need to respond commercially to this shift.
How Montenegro’s Vijesti uses social media and events to build audience engagement
by Kevin Anderson on February 7, 2013
Montenegrin newspaper and online portal Vijesti saw a sharp spike in their Twitter followers and Facebook fans when their journalists used social media and a Twitter hashtag to cover protests last year, and now the news group uses social media to engage their audience directly in their journalism, even going as far as meeting them at “Twitter parties”.
Categories: Article Type, Blogpost, Editor's Pick, Innovation, Mobile Reporting, Region, S.E Europe, Social Media
Digital Briefing Live: Sam Greene on the RuNet’s impact on journalism
by Kevin Anderson on November 2, 2012
In our second edition of Digital Briefing Live, we talk to Sam Greene at the New Economic School in Moscow about the changes that rapid internet growth is bringing to Russian society, politics and media. For news organisations, he said that they need to be willing to engage their audiences more directly while still focusing on great journalism in order to maintain their position as Russia goes digital.
Categories: Article Type, Blogpost, CIS & Georgia, Editor's Pick, Innovation, Mobile Reporting, Region, Social Media
Zimbabwean newspaper publisher holds hackathon to spur innovation
by Kevin Anderson on August 2, 2012
Hackathons are an excellent way of getting editors, journalists and developers to work together at news organisations to create new mobile and web applications that the paper, website or radio or TV station can use. Focusing on content, revenue or both, they give journalists and editors experience of what technology developments are possible in a short space of time and introduce developers to the pressured deadlines of a news outlet.
Mobile and social driving Asian internet boom
by Ran Ju on July 12, 2012
With more than 1 billion internet users, Asia accounts for nearly half the world’s online users. And it is the explosion of mobile phones that is driving the move online. Asian users are also more likely to use banking services and shop online from their mobile devices. News businesses in the region should be aware of these trends as they develop their digital strategies.
Categories: Advertising, Article Type, Asia, Blogpost, Editor's Pick, Innovation, Mobile Reporting, Region, Revenue, Services
Dutch local news project finds clues to sustainability
by Kevin Anderson on June 8, 2012
Many local digital news projects have been launched in North America and western Europe in the past decade, but few have been successful. Dichtbij, a network of community sites in the Netherlands, is finding success where others have failed. The project’s founder, Bart Brouwers, has shared some of the lessons he has learned on how to make a sustainable local digital news network.
Categories: Article Type, Blogpost, Europe, Mobile Reporting, Paid Content, Region
Africa’s mobile revolution: Tapping into eye witness reports
by Kevin Anderson on May 31, 2012
The mobile revolution has remade journalism, putting cameras and a means to post those pictures instantaneously to the internet in the hands of billions. One African journalist witnessed this revolution in media first hand after a bomb went off in Nairobi this week, and we look at ways that media around the world are tapping into this historic shift.
Categories: Africa, Article Type, Blogpost, Editor's Pick, Mobile Reporting, Region
Categories: Africa, Article Type, Asia, Blogpost, HTML5, Innovation, Management, Mobile Reporting, Multi-Platform, Product development, Region