Growth is the core common challenge for the media industry. While Covid brought a welcome boost in audiences and subscriptions, it is clear that ‘what got us here won’t get us there’. Covid-era ...
Renée Kaplan
Renée Kaplan is the Head of digital editorial development at the Financial Times, where she leads teams working on innovation, new editorial products and much of the FT's digital journalism, including newsletters and podcasts. She also focuses on new forms of distribution, and new ways to monetize digital journalism.
Before coming to the Financial Times, she was Deputy Editorial Director of news network France 24, and has worked as a journalist on staff at numerous U.S. media including CNN, CBS and the New York Observer. She is Franco-American and lives in London.
With print revenues in accelerated decline, online advertising primarily going to platforms, and digital reader revenues growing only at some titles in a winner-takes-most market, the pandemic and the...
Every news media, large or small, legacy or startup, big budget or small, struggles with the question of "what do we do next"? and "what do we do that's new"? There is pressure to innovate, to create ...
Scorched earth. Let's be brutally honest about the state of the news business! Are we doomed?
Every revenue model for news is in serious trouble: Advertising is collapsing. Paywalls work for only some sites. There's not enough charity from foundations or the public to support the journalism we...
#Metoo has gone global, yes, but how far has it really gone, especially in Europe? Why have the conversations been so different in countries like France, Italy and the UK? And over two years on from t...
The relationship between platforms and publishers is a defining feature of journalism today. What is the state of the relationship across editorial, data-sharing, product development, and business rel...
Editorial and commercial: exploring the interplay between business models and the quality journalism they support
The opportunities for journalism in the digital age are greater than ever, but the commercial conditions in which it operates look increasingly hostile. For quality journalism outlets, ensuring that e...
Everyone is talking about audio - but what's in it for your newsroom? (and your business and your audience) If podcasting was already on the rise last year, it is exploding now and newsrooms all over...
News publishers need distribution partners to survive online. But the news ecosystem is conflicted about what makes a fair relationship between platforms and publishers. How much traffic are publisher...
When journalism goes live and on stage: can live events help build loyalty, trust - and the business?
Even though journalism remains the core product of most news media - and certainly of all the media featured on this panel - a growing number of publishers are also producing live events. These can va...
"Legacy media need to put as much emphasis on transforming their organisations as they do transforming their content” – this is the premise underlying Lucy Kueng’s research report Going Digital....
Advertising has historically accounted for a large part of the business of news. But as legacy media platforms decline, digital media grow more important, and platform companies like Facebook and Goog...
Advertising has been an important source of funding for journalism for more than a century. But news media organizations are increasingly losing market share to other actors, especially large technolo...
In February 2016, BuzzFeed claimed that its comScore metric of about 80 million UVs represented less than one-fifth of its actual global reach. This illustrates a reality that many news organisatio...
How can newsrooms use audience analytics to empower journalism rather than fall victim to a tyranny of metrics? A diverse range of quality news organizations including the Guardian, the BBC, and o...
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