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It doesn’t matter whether they’re for your Kindle or in print — starting this week, Amazon is no longer selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions.Publishers were alerted to the coming change in December, and subscribers were notified last week. (If you have any of these subscriptions, you can see the timing for how they’ll be phased out; you won’t...

When we first meet Carl Bernstein (as portrayed by Dustin Hoffman) in the opening minutes of “All the President’s Men,” he’s a shambles. Shaggy hair, tieless, frayed shirt collar, unbelted jeans, tennis shoes, constant cigarette, one of hundreds of bodies in the vast Washington Post newsroom of the early 1970s. Origen: The making of a (born) journalist -...

The BBC has advised staff against using Tiktok on corporate devices unless for “editorial and marketing purposes”.In guidance sent to staff on Sunday and seen by Press Gazette, the corporation said: “We don’t recommend installing Tiktok on a BBC corporate device unless there is a justified business reason. We will continue to monitor and assess the situation.”The...

The BBC’s highest-paid presenter, Gary Lineker, will soon be back in action after being briefly suspended for what the broadcaster described as a breach of its impartiality guidelines.The former soccer player’s tweet on March 7 described the wording of the new government policy on immigration as language “not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s.” It triggered attacks by Conservative...

At The Markup, we build our own datasets, a lot. It’s one of the core tenets of our newsroom, and how we test our hypothesis-driven journalism.One way we do that is by finding and using undocumented APIs (or application program interfaces), which are hidden in plain sight. These APIs run behind the scenes on websites and do...

Mistakes with numbers can have a cascading effect for investigative stories, and a damaging effect for audience trust, as many other erroneous figures, trend claims, and conclusions can flow from that initial error.At the recent NICAR23 conference in Nashville, Tennessee — the annual data journalism summit organized by Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) — GIJN asked several...

This year’s World Press Trends study makes for a sobering read after the optimism of our previous report. The mood in the industry has changed, and publishers find themselves in a more unpredictable business environment due to a number of challenges, including high levels of inflation, rising paper and print costs, as well as ongoing changes to...

BuzzFeed Inc. is encouraging its newsroom to produce more articles in an effort to boost traffic, as its news division continues to lose money and the digital publisher braces for continuing declines in revenue.BuzzFeed News Editor in Chief Karolina Waclawiak told staff at a recent meeting that increasing the news division’s volume and traffic was part of...

Bundling is quickly becoming the next best strategy of building revenue at news media companies. Last week at the INMA Media Subscriptions Summit in Stockland, a few companies were invited to share a bit of their experiences. In lack of definitive answers, good examples can be useful to get a wider perspective. Scandinavian Schibsted, Polish Ringier Axel Springer, and...

The rise of AI technologies is transforming the way journalists work, and while text-generating models like ChatGPT make most of the headlines, there is much more to this rapidly-evolving technology. From algorithms that help investigative journalists uncover hidden stories in data to machine learning systems that transcribe interviews and translate content and tools to optimize paywalls and interactions...