Media Voices podcast: The Reuters Institute's Nic Newman on bias, bullshit and lies in the news

For Cisco, creating quick content is a way to stand out as a brand on social media. Overthinking it is the biggest mistake you can make.

People interviewed for a poll by Monmouth University believe that mainstream media and social media platforms alike are threatened by outside groups and agents trying to plant fake news stories. 

Setting up a brand storytelling team as a publisher can be really challenging. How do you deal with concerns about the separation of church and state? The Native Advertising Institute asked Melanie Deziel, branded content consultant.

Amid the ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook is firmly in the firing line for enabling the spread of disinformation on their platform. Indeed, when it comes to trust in news sources in the EU, a new survey by the European Commission has social networks and messaging apps firmly at the bottom.

With both the dream of monetising reach and the digital advertising model going up in smoke for publishers, several speakers at this year’s Digital Innovators’ Summit in Berlin turned their focus to alternative revenue streams. Apart from subscription models, ecommerce received special attention.

Innovation takes many forms. ForThe Netherlands's Libelle, innovation saved the 84-year-old brand as it encountered declining newsstand sales and subscriptions. For eleven of CNI's Vogues, innovative approaches to Instagram increased engagement and followers. For ALT.dk in Denmark, innovation meant turning Egmont Publishing's eight women's magazines into a one-stop digital destination for women. And, at Immediate Media's Olive magazine, innovation helped transform the small but mighty 15-year-old publication into a multi-platform brand. Each of these magazine media outlined their innovative approaches at the Digital Innovator’s Summit in Berlin.

Robb Report launched a new brand for women that carves out a niche in the luxury women’s sector. The media brand, called Muse, will be printed bi-annually and live online at MusebyRobbReport.com.

In a world where politicians are trying to regulate an environment they don’t understand, current European Union eprivacy regulations will not only deprive publishers of income but deteriorate the user experience for internet users, warned Oliver von Wersch, founder and CEO of Vonwerschpartner Digital Strategies in Germany during the recent Digital Innovators’ Summit in Berlin. 

Summit Media in the Philippines announced the closure of its six remaining print titles as it “completes its full digital transformation”. The company has around 20 million unique users monthly visiting its 15 websites with a further 33 million followers on social media platforms, making it “the Philippines leading digital lifestyle network and one of the top two local digital media companies in the country”.