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...
Janine Gibson
Janine Gibson is editor of FT Weekend. Previously she was the Financial Times’ head of digital projects and platforms. She joined the Financial Times in 2019 after 4 years as Editor-in-Chief of BuzzFeed UK, where the team won News Website of the Year at the 2017 UK Press Awards.
Prior to BuzzFeed, she worked at The Guardian for 17 years, most notably launching The Guardian US in 2013 and overseeing its Pulitzer Prize–winning reporting of the Edward Snowden leaks. Her other roles at The Guardian included Media Editor, launching and editing the mediaguardian.co.uk website and editor of theguardian.com.
Events IJF 2024
More and more journalists are being asked to step into roles that previously were the sole domain of the business side. The Guardian's membership scheme is run by a journalist. More and more newsrooms...
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...
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...
Help define the moral imperatives that should be guiding media and platforms' decisions
Both platforms and media helped get us into the mess we are in -- and before we can expect them to get us out we need to help them write the principles that should guide their decisions on product des...
Journalism after Snowden: the future of the free press in the surveillance state
In the age of heightened surveillance, the need for - and threat to - watchdog journalism has intensified, with Edward Snowden’s 2013 leak of classified documents signaling what may become a new nor...
This debate is not about whether or not the problems of the business model for news will or will not have been solved by 2030. Fake news has generated many claims that journalism is more needed than i...
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