Schibsted Media Group has agreed to acquire the personal finance market place Compricer. Compricer will be a part of Schibsted Tillväxtmedier, and is a good strategic fit with the existing portfolio of fast growing personal finance oriented online companies in the unit.
India is a country of champions when it comes to news media initiatives aimed at attracting young readers, which has earned it the designation as WAN-IFRA World Young Reader Country of the Year for 2013.
Schibsted Media Group has agreed on selling the Baltic operations in Eesti Meedia (EM) to a group formed by management of EM. The group is supported financially by local Estonian investors, headed by Margus Linnamäe.
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have welcomed news of the release of journalist Shi Tao and called on Chinese authorities to do more to respect freedom of the press.
Arab Free Press Forum: Now More Than Ever
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have called for the release of editor Rodney Sieh from prison in Liberia, a country whose president, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, committed to repeal criminal defamation laws last year.
Chief editors from around the world, and experts leading the digital media revolution, will gather in Berlin next month for a day and a half of networking, discussion and case studies at the World Editor Forum’s annual International Newsroom Summit.
