On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump shocked the world with a proposal that was, even by his standards, totally out of the blue: that all Palestinians should be removed from Gaza so that the US could take it over as a territory. There was instant debate about whether Americans should take Trump at his word,…
This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. It has now been more than 15 years — though it might feel a lot longer — since then-President Barack Obama gave a landmark speech in Prague pledging that…
By Mirko Petricevic While top editors rightly focus on ensuring their publications survive into tomorrow, there’s no imminent deadline for the grassroots advocacy group Ink-stained Wretches. That’s because even if newsrooms beat back the existential threat posed by new technologies and a changing business model, the reprieve would likely last only until the next disruptor…
Amedia has some 800,000 subscribers across all of its titles in Norway. However, more than half of these subscribers – 405,000 – are over the age of 60. And 95,000 of them are older than 80, which is about the same as the total number of their subscribers young than 40. This is not a…
Hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, China’s Xi Jinping made a call to Russian President Vladimir Putin in which, according to the Chinese foreign ministry’s readout, the two leaders pledged to deepen their “strategic coordination” and “practical cooperation” and “firmly support each other.” Just a few days earlier on January 17, Putin…
UDN’s Data Development Department (DDD) established the program in 2021 to integrate data into the newsroom workflow and has been elemental in driving effective content monetisation and user-centric approaches. The newsroom has the largest first-party data reserves among Taiwanese news publications, according to Lin Yi Lin, the Data Development Department Manager. UDN has more than…
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is not, in the scheme of things, a big part of the federal government. It dispersed $43.8 billion in the last fiscal year. That adds up to just 0.7 percent of the $6.1 trillion federal budget. USAID isn’t even a full Cabinet agency, but a subset of the…
Our new report, “Navigating sustained newsroom transformation,” presents case studies of news publishers who made significant headway with their digital- and audiences-first initiatives, building stronger relationships with their readers and creating momentum for long-term change. The report is based on the 2024 round of Table Stakes Europe, a WAN-IFRA programme in partnership with the Google News Initiative,…
When it comes to AI, I’d consider myself a casual user and a curious one. It’s been creeping into my daily life for a couple of years, and at the very least, AI chatbots can be good at making drudgery slightly less drudgerous. But whenever I start to feel convinced that tools like ChatGPT and…
On Sunday afternoon, I went to the National Football Conference championship game at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. At one point early in the fourth quarter, the Philadelphia Eagles were on the 1-yard line of the opposing Washington Commanders, ready to run their unstoppable Brotherly Shove play for a score. (Trust me — this has…