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This Week in Review: Twitter vs. TV on election night, and the significance...
Twitter vs. TV on election night: Just like virtually every other point in the campaign that led up to it, this week’s U.S. election brought record levels of engagement on social media — Facebook,...
View ArticleWhen it comes to digital news trends, a Reuters Institute study says some...
People in the U.S., France, Japan, and Brazil are all consuming more of their news digitally than ever before. But whether they will pay for a national news story — or post that article on Facebook...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of the German press’ tipping year
HAMBURG — Angela Merkel’s resounding reelection may have ushered in an era of unexpected political stability in Germany. If only the German press shared in that sense of calm. Instead, the German daily...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of 2014 for the German press
See also part one of Ken’s report from Germany. HAMBURG — In 2011, a German regional media group sponsored the World After Advertising conference in Dusseldorf, at which I spoke. The title seemed a...
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More people around the world are getting news on phones, but paying for it is...
News consumers are getting more mobile — but they’re not opening up their wallets much further. That’s according to a new survey published today by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at...
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The newsonomics of European crowds, funding new news
VIENNA — A small roar erupted in the crowded workshop. Krautreporter, with hours to go, had met its crowdfunded goal, gaining a commitment of €60 each from what would turn out to be 17,000 people. The...
View ArticleGermany is getting a data-centric nonprofit newsroom and hoping to build new...
While the United States’ newspaper industry has faced more rapid disruption than any other country’s, it’s also benefited from the world’s most vigorous nonprofit journalism sector. But with rapid...
View ArticleThe German investigative nonprofit CORRECT!V is building a name for itself by...
BERLIN — CORRECT!V launched with lofty goals. In the year-plus that it’s been in operation, the nonprofit investigative news outfit — Germany’s first — has, impressively, met many of them. Grow a...
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Young money: How German legacy publishers are chasing millennial audiences
BERLIN — The efforts of venture-backed new media startups jostling for the attention of millennial audiences has crescendoed in the U.S. in the past couple of years, with sites like Vice, BuzzFeed,...
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Reuters report: Across Europe, digital news consumption and access via mobile...
Allegiance to traditional media like TV remains strong in many European countries. Many of these countries also see a low proportion of people paying for online news. But the newly released supplement...
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German daily Die Welt wants to bundle print, digital, and TV into a single...
BERLIN — When The New York Times announced that it would create a separate, centralized group of editors and designers to focus on producing its daily print product, those at the German publishing...
View ArticleJung & Naiv, an interview show born and popularized on YouTube, gets another...
Legs crossed, sitting on top of one of the concrete slabs near the edge of Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial just beyond the Brandenburg Gate, is 29-year-old Tilo Jung. In this particular video episode of...
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Can the Business Insider diet of irreverent, shareable finance and tech...
Business Insider has come a long way in the U.S., and now it wants its name to travel even farther around the world. While it’s not exactly a rags-to-riches story, BI’s rise from shaky digital startup...
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Testing its pay-per-article model in English, Blendle launches in the United...
Blendle, the Dutch platform that lets users pay by the article, launched in a limited beta in the United States on Wednesday by partnering with 20 outlets — including premium publishers like The New...
View ArticleIs Der Spiegel’s leaked Innovation Report one of the key documents of this...
An eminent legacy news organization’s innovation report has leaked! No, we’re not back in May 2014, when The New York Times’ Innovation Report first leaked to BuzzFeed. (Our analysis of it remains, by...
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Die Welt’s analytics system de-emphasizes clicks and demystifies what it...
German daily Die Welt’s internal grading system for its online articles sounds a little nerve-wracking. All published pieces are assigned a single score made up of five components and ranked; then a...
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With embeddable tools, the German startup Opinary is trying to change the way...
Cornelius Frey had been living abroad for more than 10 years when he returned home to Germany for Christmas in 2012. Working for McKinsey & Co. in Nigeria, Frey stayed up to date on the news from...
View ArticleFast and furious: Using Axel Springer’s reach, Business Insider is pushing...
Business Insider is wasting no time setting up its little newsrooms around the world. With the recent launch of Polish and Nordic sites, the company now has 10 international editions. A French version...
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Pay it forward: LaterPay, a German payment infrastructure company, offers...
Micropayments, schmicropayments, amirite? For skeptics, any excitement over the pay-per-article model — this mythical iTunes for journalism that the micropayments camp often cites — seems sadly naive....
View ArticleCoda Story, focused on deep dives around single themes, is now tackling a...
“One of the conceits we’re totally in opposition to is parachuting into a story without really having our bearings,” says Ilan Greenberg, cofounder and one of the editors-in-chief of the new nonprofit...
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