by Lucinda Southern | Feb 14, 2019 | Media, UK
British GQ is making a play for new and younger audiences with GQ Hype, a sub-brand it launched quietly two months ago. Hype acts as its own weekly magazine. Each week it publishes a weekly cover, plus regular daily features, separate to other GQ content published in...
by Lucinda Southern | Feb 13, 2019 | Media, UK
Facebook’s efforts to stem the flow of misinformation and fake news on its platform have had mixed reviews. But new evidence suggests the amount of fake news on the platform is falling, and with fresh calls of government regulation from U.K. independent reports, the...
by Lucinda Southern | Feb 12, 2019 | Media, UK
Swedish local news publisher MittMedia is using robot-generated content to drive subscriptions. Robot journalism has typically been touted as a tool to save time in busy newsrooms, but MittMedia has gained 1,000 digital subscribers across 20 of its local news sites...
by Lucinda Southern | Feb 11, 2019 | Media, UK
Google has been lobbying hard to make sure the European Union doesn’t bring in changes to copyright laws that could lead the company to have to pay publishers and other rights holders for content that Google hosts on its platforms, like YouTube, or that Google...
by Lucinda Southern | Feb 8, 2019 | Media, UK
At the end of 2018, U.K. news publisher The Telegraph hit 3.5 million registered users, beating its 3 million target for the year in August. According to the publisher, it’s making good progress to meet this year’s goal and then onto reaching the 10 million milestone...
