Knowledge Bridge

Global Intelligence for the Digital Transition

Jeff Bezos: Newspapers will be a luxury item like horses

Jeff Bezos was questioned by NBC on whether he sees a day when there is no more a print version of the Washington Post.

//September 29 / 2013 //read more

Digital start-ups: What to do when the grants dry up

Latin America has a long history of digital news start-ups, but with uncertainty over the future of grant funding that has sustained many of them …

//June 26 / 2013 //read more

WAN-IFRA: Non-traditional revenue sources and print-digital bundling show promise for news revenue

The 2013 World Press Trends report by WAN-IFRA found that newspapers are thriving in Latin America, performing well in Asia but struggling most in Eastern Europe. As they compete for digital attention, some newspapers in hard-hit markets…

//June 6 / 2013 //read more

New Year’s Resolution: Rethink how you work together

Happy New Year! Let’s start 2013 off right by thinking about how you and your staff might work better together across digital and print or broadcast. To inspire you, we’ll look at the case of how General Electric rethought how it made a…

//January 7 / 2013 //read more

Tempo Media’s Harymurti: the digital transition is all about the timing

In the first Digital Briefing Live video from MDLF’s Media Forum 2012, we interviewed Bambang Harymurti, the CEO of Tempo Media in Indonesia, who discusses how media leaders can successfully transition to digital media. The trick is not to…

//December 20 / 2012 //read more

Media Forum 2012: Catching the digital wave

Making the transition to digital is like surfing, Bambang Harymurti, CEO of Tempo International Media in Indonesia, told his fellow independent media leaders at Media Development Loan Fund’s recent Media Forum. Just like surfing, timing is…

//December 10 / 2012 //read more

Media Forum 2012: Kodak, a cautionary tale for news organisations

At the recent Media Development Loan Fund’s Media Forum, Bambang Harymurti, the CEO of Tempo International Media in Indonesia, warned his fellow media leaders not to make the same mistake that photography pioneer Kodak did. Kodak saw the…

//December 7 / 2012 //read more

Ad agencies urge Serbian local media to focus on direct ad sales

Local media in Serbia see their future online, but some outlets that moved early have yet to see their investment pay off. At a recent conference in Belgrade, local media owners expressed frustration with advertisers and ad agencies for…

//November 14 / 2012 //read more

Building the next stage of the Knowledge Bridge

The Knowledge Bridge has been available since May, but after several months of development, refinement and taking your input, we’re ready to take our next steps in helping news organisations navigate the digital transition. With our public…

//November 7 / 2012 //read more

Required Reading: QR codes in Kenya, data journalism resource in Russian and changes to Facebook pages

In this week’s edition of required reading, we’ll do a brief round-up of important stories affecting media around the world plus a couple of must reads for publishers and editors including changes to Facebook’s promoted posts and how it…

//October 19 / 2012 //read more