No journalist today can escape measuring the success of their story by looking at likes, shares, etc, etc— not even journos at The New York Times, who held out longer than nearly anyone else.And if you take a simplistic view of metrics and an

How the Economist is using Line to capture new audiences in Asia

Jun 15th, 2016 27m 47s

Chat apps have been the ‘up and coming’ distribution network for a few years, and most of the world’s major publishers are now using them to grow their audiences and share their content.The Economist began publishing on Line in January this ye

Google's head of news in conversation on the challenges of distributed content

May 25th, 2016 51m 59s

As Google comes head-to-head with Facebook in the digital advertising race, Google's global head of news Richard Gingras is seeking to collaborate more closely with traditional news publishers.His latest project is Accelerated Mobile Pages, k

Ep 3: Protecting sources in the digital age

May 2nd, 2016 49m 11s

Journalists and their sources face increasingly invasive surveillance tactics. Digital security is often compromised, and a major new UN study of 121 countries' legal source protection frameworks has found that they are out of date and need str

Ep 2: The emergence of vicarious trauma

Mar 13th, 2016 26m 59s

With the emergence of user generated content (UGC) or eyewitness media there has also been an emergence of trauma experienced by journalists who discovery, verify and witness this content online. It's called vicarious trauma.Asha Phillips sp

Lessons from the 'The Big Sleep': How an interactive feature about life and death went viral and took the producers back to journalism basics

Feb 24th, 2016 30m 54s

Is there a recipe for virality when it comes to long form features online? In this podcast, The Age’s team behind The Big Sleep (http://www.theage.com.au/interactive/2016/the-big-sleep/) unpack the lessons they learned about the value of tradit

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