One of Australia’s most experienced and innovative media professionals, Peter Fray, has deep experience in transition within legacy news organisations. As a 2016 Tow-Knight entrepreneurial fellow, he has fully embraced the practice of entrepreneurial journalism and now passes it on to a new generation of journalists at the University of Technology in Sydney, where he is professor of journalism practice. In a comprehensive, […] Read more
For publishers seeking advice and insights on how to attract the youth demographic to their media brands: Look no further than the youth-fertile continent of Africa. “Africa is the youngest continent in the world,” Dr. Iqbal Survé, executive chairman of South Africa’s Independent Media, told the World News Media Congress in June. “There’s no other continent […] Read more
Audiences are contributing an increasing share of the total global newspaper revenue, according to the annual World Press Trends survey released this week by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). Newspaper circulation revenue represents 53% of the overall industry revenue, underscoring the continuation of the trend identified last year: that audiences have become […] Read more
It may come as a surprise, and it’s worth remembering: About 2.7 billion adults today still read newspapers in print, nearly half of the world’s adult population. Online, some 800 million access newspaper content digitally, or nearly half of all desktop internet users. There has never been a larger audience for newspapers. Newspapers – both print […] Read more
Print and digital combined are increasing audiences for newspapers globally, but digital revenues are not keeping pace, posing a risk for newspaper businesses and the societies they serve, the annual World Press Trends survey released Monday by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) reveals. “Unless we crack the revenue issue, and provide […] Read more