Even after the pandemic brought a boom in readers seeking reliable information on the health crisis, how can news outlets keep audiences engaged? According to editors from India, the U.S., Austria, and the Philippines speaking at the IPI World Congress panel on audience engagement on September 17, top editors agreed keeping an audience is, […]

  “You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that if you control the media, you control public opinion”, Bulgarian freelance journalist Boryana Dzhambazova said during the IPI World Congress panel on media capture in Central Europe on September 17. In several countries in the region, governments have taken effective control over the […]

  Earlier this year, IPI published a report that found local news is the most disrupted sector of the media, but is also the sector with the greatest potential to form the bedrock for a new media ecosystem. The IPI World Congress session “Strategies: Think globally, report locally” brought industry veterans and emerging talent together […]

  You’re under attack from the government, but the business has to go on. How does that work? At the 2021 #IPIWoCo, four editors from Turkey, Hungary, India, and Nigeria discussed modelling the business under repression. Running a critical and well-functioning news outlet costs money, but installing and maintaining a successful business model can be […]