By Christi Warren Los Angeles-based Vertical Networks is a digital content studio that focuses on vertical, mobile-first storytelling with Generation Z as its target market. The mobile content creation studio publishes on platforms like Snapchat, and reaches about 40 million unique viewers monthly. What makes their content so successful is a deep interest in the... Read More →

By Christi Warren For news products to be successful, they should be developed in-house with input from stakeholders across all sections of a news organization: business, design, tech, and editorial. As director of innovation and leadership at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, Anita Zielina studies the best ways for media companies... Read More →

By Christi Warren With digital ad revenue at a standstill for some news organizations, it’s becoming increasingly clear that media groups should focus their business models on earning the trust of their readers and developing subscriptions rather than clicks. At the Bay Area News Group, where Ryan Nakashima works as the product manager for digital... Read More →

By Christi Warren Access to free tools online is expanding the field of data journalism at a rapid pace, and as data journalism becomes more popular — those tools are only getting better, said Simon Rogers, data editor at Google. Rogers spoke at the 10th Data & AI for Media Week at Microsoft in San... Read More →

By Christi Warren The use of artificial intelligence is growing rapidly — the adoption of the technology tripled in the past year alone, with an estimated 37 percent of organizations now using some form of AI in their operations. As that pace increases, companies that use AI must begin to implement protocols to prevent bias.... Read More →

By Christi Warren As media organizations grow their use of machine learning and artificial intelligence, the ethical deployment of those technologies must remain at the forefront. So said the head of Kay Firth-Butterfield, head of machine learning for the World Economic Forum, at the 10th Data & AI for Media Week at Microsoft in San... Read More →

Joanne Kuai 22, February 2019 | London The Times and the Sunday Times now as 508,000 subscribers, 263,000 of whom have digital-only subscriptions. The News UK-owned publisher has constantly leveraging Data and AI in driving subscriptions, delivering personalised content to subscribers and reduce churn rates. Michael Migliore, Head of Customer Value, News UK says in... Read More →

Joanne Kuai 22, February 2019 | London The Times of London and Sunday Times is developing its own self-learning algorithm to provide its subscribers with more personalised services, sending emails at the time and frequency most suited to their habits. The News UK-owned publishers developed this ‘digital butler’ to accelerate subscriptions growth and reduce churn.... Read More →

Joanne Kuai 22, February 2019 | London Dozens of participants from media organizations across the globed joined a Design Thinking workshop at the headquarters of the BBC in Portland Place in London. The workshop was led by Corey Ford, Managing Director of Matter in San Francisco. Matter has developed a design thinking methodology that applies... Read More →

Joanne Kuai 22, February 2019 | London Journalisms are coming up with innovative formats to enhance audience engagement. At BBC, the Visual Journalism team brings interactive storytelling to the widest and most diverse audience possible by creating beautifully crafted, innovative, bespoke products, the team lift the BBC’s output above its competitors. Toby Cox, Software Engineering... Read More →