April 2021

Posts published in April 2021

“Mass customisation” of neighbourhood data can help hyperlocal news become more sustainable

By Jacob Granger “The core problem in local and hyperlocal news is that there is no sustainable business model,” says Gabriel Kahn, journalism professor at USC Annenberg School for Journalism, and the editor of Crosstown, a US non-profit community data project based in Los Angeles. Kahn was speaking at an event held by the Google News Initiative […]

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How to lead a media organisation in 2021

“The industry has been on a digital transformation journey for a quarter of a century,” said newsroom strategy expert Lucy Kueng in a podcast with Journalism.co.uk. However, very few media companies have successfully pivoted to digital and those who did had a rather rocky ride. To find out more about challenges newsroom leaders are facing in […]

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