Overcoming barriers to building successful digital subscription news products
2021-04-15. Asian news publishers The Jakarta Post and The Philippine Daily Inquirer reveal their strategies for developing and sustaining successful digital news products at the Asian Media Leaders e-Summit 2021.
| April 15, 2021
By Sherwin Chua
At a session at the Asian Media Leaders eSummit (AMLS) 2021, Rudyard Arbolado, President and CEO of The Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI), and Adisti Sawitri, Managing Editor of The Jakarta Post (JP), discussed how their respective publications had used lessons from WAN-IFRAâs inaugural Newsroom and Business Transformation Asia programme in 2020 to tackle obstacles when building digital subscription products.Â
How Asian publishers are transforming their newsrooms and driving digital revenue
2020-12-23. From employing cutting-edge methods to derive and understand audience data to setting precise North Star goals to catalyse organisational transformation, five Asian news publishers share key lessons from WAN-IFRAâs inaugural Newsroom and Business Transformation Asia programme.
| December 23, 2020
By Sherwin Chua
From June to November 2020, 11 Asian news publishers attended the first-ever, online Newsroom and Business Transformation (NBTA 2020) programme organised by WAN-IFRA, supported by the Facebook Journalism Project, and helmed by programme leaders George Brock and Grzegorz Piechota.
Here, five publishers from Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan share the key takeaways from the NBTA 2020 programme that have helped them implement and accelerate their newsroom transformation projects.
How product managers are rejuvenating journalism
2020-12-10.Singapore Press Holdingsâ Chief Product Officer Gaurav Sachdeva explains how news publishers can leverage on product managers to spur newsroom transformation and better meet audiencesâ needs.
| December 10, 2020
By Sherwin Chua
Product management, in summary, involves methodologies that enable businesses to develop products and services by putting themselves in the shoes of their customers, to know what they need and meet those needs.
Traditionally, product managers (and product management) are more aligned with the field of software development than journalism. However, a growing number of news publishers have been relying on product managers to guide digital transformation in their newsrooms and spark innovation.