Knowledge Bridge

Global Intelligence for the Digital Transition

Lessons in selling independent journalism from Malaysiakini’s Premesh Chandran

Malaysiakini, the largest independent news website in Malaysia, has made its independence a selling point. Malaysiakini co-founder and CEO Premesh Chandran sat down with us at MDLF’s Media Forum 2012 to share some of the lessons on how to…

//December 27 / 2012 //read more

Nepali Times’ Kunda Dixit: A mountaintop conversion to digital

At MDLF’s Media Forum 2012 in Jakarta, we spoke to Kunda Dixit, the editor of the Nepali Times. Once a digital sceptic, he now believes that smartphones can deliver the digital dream, empowering both individuals and news organisations to…

//December 24 / 2012 //read more

Visual journalism is ‘not just for the big boys’

Major news organisations like The Guardian, The New York Times and The BBC are breaking new ground with data-driven visual journalism, but digital editor Paul Rowland, who works at a regional news group in Wales, has shown that these…

//December 14 / 2012 //read more

How to harness audience data to drive better editorial and business performance

Using data has been one of the hottest editorial topics in journalism, but it is increasingly also becoming one of the hottest topics in the business of journalism. Forward-looking news organisations are using increasingly sophisticated…

//November 23 / 2012 //read more

Ukraine elections: How to monitor and cover a major news event using social media

The recent elections in Ukraine gave an excellent example of how news organisations can and should monitor social media and crowdsourced reporting projects to cover major news events.

//October 29 / 2012 //read more

Clayton Christensen’s roadmap for navigating digital media disruption

Journalism isn’t the first industry to face disruption, and Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School has made a career out of studying how companies and industries respond to chaotic change. Now, he has turned his attention to the…

//October 22 / 2012 //read more

Required Reading: QR codes in Kenya, data journalism resource in Russian and changes to Facebook pages

In this week’s edition of required reading, we’ll do a brief round-up of important stories affecting media around the world plus a couple of must reads for publishers and editors including changes to Facebook’s promoted posts and how it…

//October 19 / 2012 //read more

How to create an audience survey using a Google form

Digital journalism has opened up new opportunities to gather information from your audience. It can add to your journalism and develop a closer, more loyal relationship with your audience. In the first of a series, we’ll look at how you…

//October 3 / 2012 //read more

Ekstrabladet.dk editor: How to deliver the best journalism for print and digital

In our first Digital Briefing Live feature, we speak to Geir Terje Ruud, the editor of Ekstrabladet.dk, the website of the popular Danish tabloid. He discusses print-digital story planning and newsroom organisation. He also talks about…

//September 27 / 2012 //read more

Increasing reader engagement through better journalism experiences

At last week’s WAN-IFRA conference in Kiev, the challenge facing newspapers in the digital age was lack of ‘intensity’, deep engagement and loyalty. The Wall Street Journal’s Raju Narisetti offered one solution: Deliver better journalism…

//September 13 / 2012 //read more