Journalism's economic crisis grows ever deeper for thousands of media globally, and worse hit are those in the majority world. Following a two-year deep dive into regional perspectives in Latin Americ...
Styli Charalambous
Styli Charalambous co-founded the Daily Maverick, in 2009, while navigating industry disruption and the country’s turbulent politics. As founding CEO and publisher, Styli helped grow Daily Maverick from a 5-person start-up to now more than 100 full-time staff, reaching 9m monthly unique visitors with 20k voluntary paying members. He is passionate about leadership and innovation focusing on new revenue models, product, technology and membership in news. In 2021, he was awarded South Africa’s top journalism award for courage and integrity for his shaping role in Daily Maverick’s success.
Events IJF 2025
The past decades in the media industry have been characterized by cost-cutting, efficiency programs and pressure to transform. The rapid development of generative AI is currently accelerating these tr...
Empowering journalism through user-centric models: lessons from Daily Maverick and Zetland
In an era where digital transformation has reshaped the media landscape, two pioneering media organizations, Zetland and Daily Maverick, have successfully harnessed the power of high quality journalis...
With high inflation and a looming recession, legacy revenues in accelerated decline, online advertising primarily going to platforms, and digital reader revenues growing only at some titles in a winne...
Newsrooms are inundated with metrics for reach, attention, and engagement – but how do they assess the social impact of their journalism? This panel, proposed by the World Editors Forum, will go bey...
First there was SMS (short message service), then there was MMS (multi media service). As the world adopts RCS (rich communciation services), can the news industry leverage this new technology as a ne...
Event sponsored by Google News Initiative.
Publishers are embracing reader revenue models around the world as a way to depend less on advertising and diversify their revenue streams. This change requires building a more integrated organization...
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