We’re doing something a bit different this week. It’s been one year since I started doing a weekly deep dive into different topics affecting newspapers in today’s digital world, so I wanted to share 5 of my favourite stories from the past year. Think I’m missing a top story or have a topic you’d like[…]
We’ve all heard it before, print dollars have been replaced by digital dimes, and it’s only worsening with the increase in readers using adblockers. Globally, 27% of all readers use adblockers, and this figure is as high as 42% in Greece and 34% in France. Since February, Google has automatically blocked the most annoying ads on[…]
What does the newspaper of tomorrow look like? This is the question many in the news industry are grappling with today. We’ve seen how publishers in Europe are reinventing digital editions, and this trend has started in South Africa too. But it doesn’t seem to have reached the United States yet. So how are newspapers[…]
Recently the team at Tiso Blackstar Group launched the first digital-only edition in South Africa, Times Select. Currently available online only, the app version will be launched later this month, coinciding with the launch of their paywall. We spoke with Lisa MacLeod, Head of Digital and the first female Vice President of WAN-IFRA, to understand what[…]
After years of looking to the future for what will ‘save journalism’, including digital kiosks, pivots to video, and social media, it’s something a bit more old-school that is helping newspapers succeed in today’s digital world: a return to edition-based publishing. More and more publishers are finding that creating packaged publications with a beginning and an[…]
When kiosks such as Blendle first came out on the scene, there were cries that they would be “the saviour of journalism“, but since then things haven’t gone as great. To understand why kiosks are struggling to keep European publishers on board, we’ve taken a deep dive into the world of kiosks. Blendle – not[…]
We look forward to the release of the Reuters Digital News Report every year because it’s always full of actionable insights. This year is no different, and from 144 pages of research, we’ve boiled it down to the 5 key insights that should shape the rest of your 2018 strategy. “This year’s report contains signs[…]
“Machine learning extracts the magic dust out of data.” – Ralf Herbrich, Director of Machine Learning Science at Amazon Recently members of our development team here at Twipe attended the AWS Summit in Berlin and came back with new insights on machine learning. Coupled with the call from Benedict Evans at GEN Summit to change the[…]