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Call for Mentors: Strengthening Small and Local Media in the Western Balkans

Mentoring opportunity for media professionals committed to building resilient local journalism The SMS Facility – Small Media Support in the Western Balkans, financed by the European Union, has launched a regional call for mentors to support local and small-scale media outlets across the Western Balkans. The initiative is implemented by CPCD (BiH) in partnership with Thomson Media (Germany), CDT (Montenegro), Kosovo 2.0 (Kosovo), Metamorphosis

It is not all about views: The guide to optimising your YouTube channel

YouTube is a powerful platform for media businesses, especially in the publishing industry. With over 2 billion logged-in users visiting YouTube each month, it’s a great way to reach a wide audience and promote your brand. If we dive deeper locally per country of the Balkan region, more than 62% of all internet users use YouTube on regular basis. However, competition is fierce, and

What’s your media job: Head of Audience Development

Head of Audience Development is an important role at the intersection between the editorial and all other teams in the organisation. This person is managing a team responsible for creating a distribution strategy across multiple platforms – SEO, social media, newsletters, and more – to grow the product’s audience. They define measurement and testing strategy in cooperation with the analytics team and identify opportunities

Thomson Foundation Joins Project to Support Quality Reporting on Culture in The Western Balkans

The creative sector has been amongst the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is why a new project “Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans” (CC4WBs), funded by the European Union, is aimed at fostering dialogue in the Western Balkans by enhancing the cultural and creative sectors for increased socio-economic impact. CC4WBs is jointly managed by UNESCO, the British Council and the Italian

How can nonprofit media monetise their mission?

Monetisation. That magic word that is being insisted upon more and more recently. As well as on sustainability, more and more on capacity development. We can talk about sustainability, but if we break it down into several levels. Let’s dwell on it. Here I would return to the very concept of sustainability, which we can observe on at least three levels. At least that’s

Radio and podcast: (Fr)Enemies?

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Podcasts are the fastest growing content delivery channel in the last few years. However, there seems to be a growing gap between the radio industry and podcasters. By commercializing radio in the Balkan region, in the Balkan way, which mostly means “formatting” (I wanted to write “freaky formatting”, and I wouldn’t want anyone to be offended; the format is certainly not making playlists and

Journalism today: Media newsrooms in a race with social media algorithms

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If this article was written around 2010, it would probably start with a phrase like “Social media are the future of the media business”. Since then, things have changed a lot and social media are no longer the future, but very much the present of the media business. No matter how skeptical the editors, reporters, and journalists were at the time, Facebook, a social

Visual storytelling extends the life of journalistic stories

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Many have probably seen the video made from the front pages of every print edition of The New York Times from 1852 to the present day. The video, which is 55 seconds long, is initially dominated by text-only front pages. Later in the video, small black-and-white photos shyly begin to appear, so we can conclude that the newspaper has started publishing illustrations. At the

Young people growingly get news on TikTok – What does this mean for newsrooms?

Two months ago, I had the chance to participate in a conference organised by one of the biggest companies in the world. Among numerous topics covered during the three-day event, several were of particular interest to the participants – understandably, a lot of sessions revolved around discussions for the best and most sensitive ways to cover the war in Ukraine, others included the ever-so-relevant

12 European newsrooms selected to join Deep-Dive Business Consultancy

Twelve media newsrooms from Europe have been selected for an in-depth business support, following a transparent and multi-staged evaluation process.  The call was targeted towards mid-sized, regional or local media and niche outlets, with a clearly identified problem they are willing to solve. Selected media will receive customised mentoring and grant support as part of the Deep-Dive Business Consultancy (DDBC) pillar, under the Media
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