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How the pandemic is throwing international reporting into crisis — www.poynter.org

We're all rightly worried about cuts to domestic journalism. It has the potential to create news deserts and limit the public's ability to make informed decisions. However, as this article from Poynter's Megan Janetsky points out, cuts as a result of the coronavirus have created a devastating cocktail of economic turmoil and heightened risks that throw the fate of foreign reporting into jeopardy:

"Betsy Joles, a Beijing-based freelancer, worries about repercussions of her reporting more than ever. Meanwhile, many of her colleagues are scattered around the world, and fear that mobility or visa restrictions may make it impossible to return to China as journalists."

Effectively, as freelance budgets are slashed and the risk to journalists for reporting in hostile environments grows, we run the real threat of creating global news deserts. We may be slipping back into the bad old days of having genuinely no idea of what is happening in other countries - and no way to put what little news we do get into context. It's a terrifying proposition.

From 6k to 93k YouTube subscribers in 8 months: Inside the Evening Standard’s growth strategy — whatsnewinpublishing.com

From our own Esther, this article takes a look at the metro freesheet's efforts to boost its digital video output. Crucially, it seems that the video and audio teams are far and away the most attuned to the realities of digital publishing of any part of the Standard's team.

TV trends in lockdown and beyond — www.ofcom.org.uk

The great debate of the media moment is whether habits formed during lockdown will persist after the fact. As this latest data from Ofcom demonstrates, TV viewing habits are gradually returning to normal after an initial spike. Worrying implications for any organisation that's pivoted to a new strategy purely due to Covid.

Economist readership analysed: the place of the print title — www.pressgazette.co.uk

You know as well as I do that there's a lot of bad faith arguments out there about the primacy of print. According to the ABC, The Economist’s print title is only its ninth most popular platform. Print is valuable and still has a place, but a mass medium it ain't.

Today's throwback:

POLITICO UK Executive Editor Kate Day on the publisher's expansion in the UK — voices.media

In this throwback episode from before the lockdown (a time shrouded in myth), Kate Day, Executive Editor of POLITICO in the UK takes us through the publishers’ expansion into and growth in the UK market.

Buy the Media Voices Team a coffee — ko-fi.com

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