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The 28-point peace plan is now a 19-point peace plan. President Donald Trump says the plan for ending Russia’s war in Ukraine that was presented to Kyiv last week, and was so heavily tilted toward Russia’s demands that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called it “one of most difficult moments in our history,” has been “fine-tuned” after…
At our Newsroom Summit last week, Lisa Irenius, Editor-in-Chief and CEO of Svenska Dagbladet, told participants about their strategy for digital growth and the factors behind their success. While the title’s revenue from subscriptions in the years after Covid looked good on the surface, there were some major underlying issues, she said. “When we looked behind…
The State Department designated Venezuela’s “Cartel de los Soles” as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on Monday as part of an escalating campaign aimed at forcing President Nicolás Maduro from power. The designation comes amid an ongoing campaign of US strikes on suspected drug boats that has killed more than 80 people, the largest build-up…
During our Newsroom Summit in Copenhagen last week, Cormac Bourke explained how the acquisition by Mediahuis in 2019 brought about strategic and structural changes to the publishing house. Bourke, who is Editor-In-Chief of Mediahuis Ireland in addition to being the Editor of the Irish Independent for both Digital and Print, noted he didn’t have any secrets…
By Anne Koch The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the world’s largest alliance of public service media, has opened its Ukraine Archive to external applicants. This curated, searchable collection of some of the best journalism about the Russia-Ukraine war since the full-scale invasion of February 2022, is accessible on request to journalists, academics, human rights researchers,…
By Martin Schori We often talk about news avoiders. And when we do, they are rarely described as passive or uninterested; that they cannot handle a “normal” news flow or only want TikTok-ified news clips. But when they themselves explain why they avoid news, it seldom has to do with a lack of interest in…
President Donald Trump announced that the US would intervene to end the civil war in Sudan. This promise came at the request of the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. The conflict in Sudan — which has been marked by serious human rights abuses by both sides — recently reached a turning point. The Rapid…
The Trump administration has been something of a pendulum in its position on the war in Ukraine, swinging between pro-Ukraine and pro-Russia positions over the past year. This week, it is swinging hard toward Moscow. Earlier this week, Axios reported on a new 28-point Trump administration plan to end the war in Ukraine, echoing the…
It would take about 30 minutes for a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to travel from Russia to the United States. If launched from a submarine, it could arrive even faster than that. Once the launch is detected and confirmed as an attack, the president is briefed. At that point, the commander-in-chief might have about…