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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 15h
Across INMA's Media Innovation Week, publishers kept arriving at the same conclusion: When content is abundant and traffic can’t be trusted, the brand is what’s left. "Talent follows a strong brand, and so do future audiences. So brand should not be the first thing to go in the next budget meeting."
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Why European news media leaders are betting on brand again
At INMA’s Media Innovation Week in Madrid, publishers agreed that brand is what’s left when traffic can’t be trusted and content is everywhere. From Monocle’s luxury playbook to journalist-led newslet...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Publishers are already dealing with [AI] on two fronts: outside, where answer engines are rewriting how audiences find news, and inside, where newsrooms are working out how to use the technology without losing their footing."
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AI is now media’s operating environment
At INMA’s Media Innovation Week in Madrid, publishers showed they have moved past AI experimentation into adoption and governance, even as AI-driven search erodes their traffic. The strongest bets are...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
INMA's @gabedorosz.bsky.social shares discussions around events and experiences from the recent TRB Audience Summit in New York.
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Are events the hero product for publishers?
At the recent TRB Audience Summit in New York, events and experiences were the most inspiring case studies for news companies.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Across five days of INMA's Media Innovation Week in Madrid, one question kept resurfacing on stage and off: How do news brands reach people who may never pick up a newspaper or type in a homepage URL?
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What a week in Madrid taught publishers about young audiences
At INMA’s Media Innovation Week in Madrid, publishers from Belgium to Sweden shared how they are reaching young audiences, from TikTok news hosts to free subscriptions for under-25s. The common thread...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On Monday, Euractiv will stop being Euractiv. The reason, Emmanuel Naert, head of product at Euractiv, told INMA delegates in Madrid, is simple: “This name is not who we actually are.”
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Why Euractiv is giving up a 25-year-old name
Three years after its acquisition by Mediahuis, Euractiv has rebuilt its newsroom, its business model, and its technology. Next week, it will give up its 25-year-old name. At INMA’s European News Medi...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
At an INMA Media Innovation Week study tour stop in Madrid, elDiario.es walked 25 delegates through a revenue model assembled in an unusual order — community first, membership second, and a paywall only once both were working.
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elDiario.es built its revenue on members before it built a paywall
At an INMA Media Innovation Week study tour stop in Madrid, elDiario.es explained how it gives away nearly all of its journalism and still funds close to half of its income from readers — building com...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
INMA Media Innovation Week, which starts today in Madrid, is five days of answers from people who have actually tried something around young audiences, AI adoption, advertising, and owned traffic. www.inma.org/blogs/confer...
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INMA spends 5 days in Madrid learning what actually works
This week’s INMA Media Innovation Week in Madrid starts off with two days inside Spanish newsrooms then continues with three days of case studies from publishers across Europe on young audiences, AI a...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This week’s Webinar explored the idea of “radical collaboration” as a way to share resources, reduce duplication, and build common infrastructure. @ryanpitts.bsky.social, and @kleinmatic.bsky.social offered an insightful look into what radical collaboration looks like in real time.
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Radical collaboration could provide the solution news publishers are looking for
This week’s the INMA Product & Tech Initiative Webinar looked at how the concept of “radical collaboration” could help news media organisations share resources, reduce duplication, and build common in...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Instead of traditional news coverage around the World Cup, Prothom Alo focused on creating content experiences that encouraged audiences to participate.
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Prothom Alo’s World Cup content flywheel engages millions
The FIFA World Cup provided Prothom Alo with an opportunity to experiment at scale and across teams, demonstrating what can happen when a major event is treated as a digital product and audience engag...
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Big Local News @biglocalnews.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🗓️ Cheryl Phillips and Scott Klein will join @inmaorg.bsky.social on Sept. 2 for a discussion on emerging infrastructure, open-source approaches, and industry standards for the AI era. What can we build if we do it together? Sign up for the webinar here: community.inma.org/event-calend...
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Radical Collaboration: Building Shared Tools for the AI Era
Cheryl Phillips, Director, Big Local News at Stanford Journalism, and Scott Klein, Founder, Open Journalism
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Audiences have not disappeared, they have been redistributed across a growing number of platforms, Ignacio Zaccagnino, head of media growth at Spanish agency Nomadic, said.
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Google Search, Discover, AI, and YouTube redraw the news traffic map
Ignacio Zaccagnino, head of media growth at Spanish agency Nomadic, explains what the redistribution of audiences means for the traffic strategy of news companies.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
During a live Webinar, Christian Bennett detailed a newsroom-wide initiative to help @theguardian.com adapt to a new reality of younger audiences, fragmented platforms, and an environment where video increasingly plays a key role in journalism consumption.
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The Guardian’s experimentation with video leads to new formats, audiences
In response to the shift in viewing habits of younger audiences and the growing demand for video, The Guardian launched Project Berger, which explores new ways to deliver content beyond text.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
How will news companies navigate the zero- click inbox? INMA's @g-piechota.bsky.social shares four hypotheses.
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Will newsletters survive the AI assault on e-mail?
As AI decouples the e-mail user chain value, how will news companies navigate the zero- click inbox? Here are four hypotheses.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Jun Zhang of the South China Morning Post explained that the news media industry faces the “innovator’s dilemma” at the recent INMA Asia-Pacific News Media Summit. “AI itself won’t kill journalism. Failing to invent how we deliver the news to the users will kill the news company.”
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AI won’t kill journalism — but failure to reinvent delivery might
South China Morning Post’s Jun Zhang says publishers should put AI investment into search, personalisation, and platform-ready formats rather than treating newsroom automation as their main survival s...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"If every story changes depending on who’s reading it, eventually we lose the storyteller. We lose the journalist. We lose the editorial judgment that makes one publication feel different from another. That’s exactly what readers are paying for."
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Here’s why I changed my mind about liquid content
Should news companies reconsider liquid content and prioritise adaptation over personalisation?
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
There are 5 months left in 2026 to build something. INMA's Kerstin Hasse asks: What is the one thing you still want to get done in your organisation this year? She shares 3 ideas in her latest blog.
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There are 5 months left in 2026 to build something
Refreshed from summer holidays, news leaders still have five months left of the year to make big strides with young audiences. Here are three places to get started.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Bauer Media has gone from AI as an add-on for existing workflows to an AI-first model that is revamping the publishing workflow.
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Bauer Media reimagines publishing for the age of AI
Bauer Media Publishing changed its workflows to make room for AI as part of the content lifecycle.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"The thing to watch over the rest of the year is how this dynamic evolves and which publishers report falling traffic alongside rising ad revenue," INMA's @gabedorosz.bsky.social writes.
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The supply-demand curve is repricing publisher inventory
New data shows news publisher ad request volumes fell 32% to 37% year over year in the U.S. and 39% to 41% in the U.K. in the second quarter of 2026 while eCPMs rose. What does that signal?
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
During a live INMA Webinar, Adriana Lacy, CEO of Field Nine Group, who shared insights into how companies can create relationships that mutually benefit news organisations, influencers, and audiences.
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Creator partnerships could reshape how news organisations reach audiences
Adriana Lacy, CEO of Field Nine Group, offered tips on how news media companies can create relationships with creators to extend their audience reach.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"The more useful question is not, 'Are we using AI?' It is, 'What is better because we are using it? Faster decisions. Stronger reader experience. Better quality journalism. Lower costs. New revenue. More time on problems that require human judgment."
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AI’s value in a news company should be measured in these 4 ways
The business case for AI at news companies should be measured not only by what the technology can do, but how roles, skills, accountability, and ways of working will change around it.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As part of its brand-driven campaign, Fædrelandsvennen's guerrilla marketing poster initiative had a simple message: “You can’t trust everything you see. Can you trust us?”
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Fædrelandsvennen campaign turned trust into its brand message
To reach its ambitious subscription goal, Fædrelandsvennen built a brand campaign around a critical concern for audiences: trust.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
At the INMA Africa Newsroom & Tech Summit, six news companies described businesses with almost nothing structurally in common and but all kept arriving at the same four conclusions.
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Africa’s news companies are finding their strategy in what they refuse
The six news companies presenting at INMA’s Africa Newsroom & Tech Summit run different businesses in different markets. They converged anyway — on publishing less, building their own tools, writing t...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Local_Vocal initiative is getting government support because it is creating new and sustainable business models, securing media diversity, and strengthening democracy.
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DRIVE, Local_Vocal reinvent local newspapers for the AI age
The innovative Local_Vocal project serves as an AI accelerator and a cooperative platform connecting regional publishers with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaisersla...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"Imagine consumers being able to authenticate existing subscriptions once and carrying it across the Internet," INMA's Product & Tech Initiative Lead Jodie Hopperton writes. "The subscription lives with the consumer, not the channel."
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If distribution is happening on platforms, shouldn’t subscriptions work there, too?
What if subscriptions didn’t just live on publisher Web sites anymore? What if they live with the subscriber, on whichever products and platforms they choose to consume?
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
In his latest blog, INMA's @gabedorosz.bsky.social writes that the INMA South Asia News Media Festival "focused on transformation with an urgency that exceeded almost any event I’ve attended this year because the levers underneath are moving fast."
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South Asia publishers are growing, transforming, and leading in advertising
News publishers in South Asia report fourth quarter 2025 referral traffic declines — perhaps as much as 40% — are driving a huge sense of urgency. Here’s a look at how that looks across the region in ...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In her latest blog, INMA's Kerstin Hasse discusses the user needs model and shares what user needs developer @dmitryshishkin.bsky.social says news companies are getting wrong with it.
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Content creators just get user needs (and newsrooms don’t)
A framework, like user needs, is just vocabulary if you can’t measure it. User needs developer Dmitry Shishkin on what news companies are getting wrong with the model.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The competition may be less about producing creator-style content than about recognising where their competitive advantage already exists, Julie Jochims writes: "The creator economy has transformed how people discover information. It is now reshaping how independent media businesses are built."
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Washington Post’s new model reimagines publisher-content creator partnerships
News companies have spent years debating how to compete with creators for audience attention, but a more durable opportunity may lie in helping creators build sustainable businesses while reinforcing ...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
At the INMA South Asia News Media Festival, Siddharth Sharma, head of content and production at JioStar, urged news publishers to focus less on one-time transactions and more on building lasting habits through personalisation, localisation, and community.
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JioStar’s sports playbook shows news publishers how to build audience habit
Live events may attract audiences, but habit keeps them coming back, Siddharth Sharma, head of content and production at JioStar, told delegates at the INMA South Asia News Media Festival. He outlined...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
During the INMA South Asia News Media Festival study tour participants, NDTV shared how it is applying AI across its digital products and newsroom workflows: "The entry barrier for teams and for organisations and for individuals is really decreasing."
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NDTV looks beyond AI novelty to build products that deliver real value
During the INMA South Asia News Media Festival in New Delhi, study tour participants visited NDTV to learn how the news network is applying AI across its digital products and newsroom workflows.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Indian Express is rethinking how a legacy news organisation reaches consumers — not by chasing clicks, but by making trusted journalism more accessible through new video products and formats.
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Indian Express builds a video-first future around trusted journalism
During the opening day of the INMA South Asia News Media Festival in New Delhi, 20 news media executives on a two-day study tour visited Indian Express headquarters to learn how the legacy publisher i...
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Daniel Funke @dpfunke.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🇮🇳 I'm thrilled to be in New Delhi this week for the @inmaorg.bsky.social South Asia News Media Festival! If you're attending the conference, please come say hi after my panel or at the @afp.com booth. I'd love to chat about all things fact-checking, disinformation and media literacy. 💡
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Through company visits, case studies, and discussions with industry leaders, the South Asia News Media Festival is curated to provide practical ideas that participants can take back to their own organisations.
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South Asia News Media Festival spotlights strategies shaping the region’s media future
This week’s INMA South Asia News Media Festival brings media leaders to New Delhi for four days of behind-the-scenes learning, combining study tours with a conference focused on the strategies shaping...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Stavanger Aftenblad found commercial success by building a real-time results service for the growing number of recreational races across Rogaland that features every runner.
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Stavanger Aftenblad built a powerful subscription driver by covering all runners
By creating a digital product that covers every runner, Stavanger Aftenblad has found commercial success. The digital section has become one of its biggest subscription drivers.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In his latest blog, INMA's @gabedorosz.bsky.social discusses research that shows trust in news media brands is strong and what that means for advertisers.
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Research shows the case for news continues to grow, improve
Research from various entities shows trust in news media brands is strong — what does that mean for media advertising?
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
During this week's Webinar, @tomasbella.bsky.social, one of @dennikn.bsky.social’s co-founders and CEO of the @euobserver.com, discussed the company’s subscription strategy, pricing philosophy, and the vital decisions that have shaped its readers‑first business model.
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Inside Denník N’s successful subscription strategy
This week’s Webinar, presented by the INMA Readers First Initiative, saw initiative lead Greg Piechota sitting down with Tomáš Bella, one of Denník N’s co-founders and CEO of the EUobserver.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
News publishers are shifting priorities to power their video strategies, INMA's Sonali Verma writes.
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FAZ, Guardian, NYT, Atlantic invest in video
Case studies of these four news companies illustrate how audience, product, advertising, and staff priorities are changing to meet video’s moment.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The age of AI is challenging news publishers to look at content differently, INMA's @g-piechota.bsky.social writes in his latest blog.
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The future is liquid in the AI era, with some delightful exceptions
Newsrooms have to look at content differently in the age of AI, thus the popularity of discussions and strategies around “liquid content.” This makes the case for “signature journalism.”
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
INMA's @g-piechota.bsky.social: "Motivation to stay current does not equal motivation to pay. Perceived utility and distinctiveness of your journalism, feelings of moral duty to support your mission, and convenience are the top drivers."
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The reality check of user needs: “Update me” drives most demand for news
Research shows user needs are changing and “update me” drives the most demand for news.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Beyond its success as a product, the creation of Dow Jones Crisis Monitor: Middle East offered lessons about expertise, collaboration, and the role publishers can play during moments of uncertainty.
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Dow Jones turns complex B2B data into “prosumer” content with cross-team collaboration
Cross-collaboration across Dow Jones teams resulted in Dow Jones Crisis Monitor: Middle East, a product built in just nine days that combined expertise from its business-to-consumer (B2C) and business...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
During a recent Webinar, @alvaroliuzzi.bsky.social argued that some media companies have already moved beyond isolated AI experiments toward sustainable transformation. Now the challenge is designing organisational change that goes far beyond technology itself.
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AI adoption in newsrooms should move from experiment to strategy
During a recent INMA Webinar, Argentina-based Alvaro Liuzzi, a journalist, professor, and consultant, explained how newsrooms should pivot from a period of “what” to a time of “why” with AI.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Instead of increasing content production, The Washington Post aims to be smarter about surfacing what already exists and putting it in front of the right audiences at the right moment.
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AI forced Washington Post to rethink paid acquisition, start with journalism
When The Washington Post found its direct response playbook was costing more to acquire fewer subscribers, its strategy pivoted to a more successful video-based content promotion.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
As a vital touchstone for millions of fans to get their football fix before, during, and after the matches themselves, news brands are helping advertising tap into the excitement around the World Cup.
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World Cup drives UK readers to news brands, offers spirited advertising opportunities
With consistent readership and well-documented advertising effectiveness, news brands remain a no-brainer for advertisers looking to make the most of the World Cup.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"So from afar on first read, the publisher story at Cannes was genuinely better than it has been in years, even while very big questions remain," INMA's @gabedorosz.bsky.social writes.
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News publishers came to sell in Cannes
News publishers showed up in full force at the Cannes Lions Festival of Advertising — from The New York Times’ HQ apartment, The Wall Street Journal’s Journal House, and Hearst’s AURO IQ — to show wha...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Three separate initiatives are beginning to tackle different parts of the problem around access, attribution, and measurement of content — CoMP, RSL, and SPUR. INMA Product & Tech Initiative Lead Jodie Hopperton goes over them in her latest blog.
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CoMP, RSL, and SPUR: 3 standards every publisher should understand
News publishers should understand the emerging AI content infrastructure of CoMP, RSL, and SPUR — and now is the time to shape these frameworks in real time.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
In his latest blog, INMA's @gabedorosz.bsky.social discusses Cannes: "The story is really about who owns the Croisette now. The prime beachfront that used to belong to agencies and publishers now belongs to the platforms and the AI companies."
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Platforms took the Croisette in Cannes, and the ad business is reordering around them
At the recent Cannes Lions Festival of Advertising, the platforms took centre stage, replacing — both physically and otherwise — space that used to belong to publishers and agencies. What does this sa...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
By integrating Google Cloud and Gemini AI, Jagran New Media has built a faster, smarter, and highly scalable publishing workflow for its editorial teams.
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Jagran New Media uses AI to drive transformation in its digital newsrooms
To produce more content faster without losing its high journalism standards, Jagran New Media integrated some of Google’s advanced generative AI capabilities into its CMS.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
INMA's Young Audiences Initiative Lead Kerstin Hasse shares a conversation with Nic Newman about what the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Digital News Report 2026 reveals about news creators, trust, and the bridge model.
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27% of people get their news from a creator
An interview with Nic Newman, senior research associate at the Reuters Institute, dives into specific questions within the latest Digital News Report about news consumption and content creators.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The most consequential theme of the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Digital News Report 2026 is the “platformisation of the news experience,” report author Jim Egan said during a recent INMA Webinar.
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Reuters Digital News Report 2026 author shares key themes with INMA members
During a recent INMA Webinar, Jim Egan, senior research associate at Reuters Institute, walked members through key findings of the Reuters Digital News Report 2026, including research on trust, video,...
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
To appeal to audiences getting their news from apps like Snapchat and TikTok, Amedia focused on increasing its video production and improving the video skills of reporters.
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Amedia scaled video to provide news for younger audiences
Young audiences are getting their news from apps like Snapchat and TikTok, so Amedia scaled its video storytelling to reach them.
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International News Media Association (INMA) @inmaorg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"We have talked endlessly for the past two decades about building a daily habit," INMA's Sonali Verma writes. "Yet we are driving our audiences into the arms of AI companies because we make them feel stupid when they come to our content."
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Why are audiences going to AI answer engines for news?
Research shows more consumers are asking AI answer engines about news instead of asking news publishers directly. Why and what can news companies do about it?
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