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GEN Summit 2016 - Bizzabo How can the media industry deal with Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon and other mega-platforms offering news to their users? This is the major question for 2016 and the sixth annual GEN Summit will explore the most relevant solutions for your newsroom. Over-the-top platforms claim to want to partner…

The "Mediacentar", leading journalism training and quality development in Bosnia, wanted to discuss key learnings from media innovation processes, asking IMIM director Andy Kaltenbrunner. Here is the interview in English (or see the version in Serbian) http://media.ba/en/novinarstvo/media-innovation-means-permanent-questioning-own-position

Media Innovation Means Permanent Questioning of Own Position To understand media innovation we have to understand what concepts and ideas of communication in societies and plans for media businesses are behind doing something new with media and technology, said media expert Andy Kaltenbrunner.

14 new Masters of "International Media Innovation Management" celebrated after 2 years of studies in Austria, Germany, Spain, USA the end of their adventure journey. Hitch-hiking through the new media universe - guided by principles of academic research, and in best company of wonderful colleagues fjum_forum journalismus und medien wien

We are celebrating the second graduation of our Master's program on Wednesday next week! The graduation speech will be given by Bill Horn, Deputy Editor of The New York Times’ Video Desk. Please register.

Graduation of the Executive Master’s Program on Oct. 7 | imim Archive innovation management, the role of innovation labs in media outlets all over the world or the ethics of content marketing: These are just some of the topics of Master’s theses written by this cohort’s imim students. Their final exams will be held at the beginning of October in Vienna. On Wed…

Nieman Journalism Lab asked seven news organisations whether they regret that they shut off reader comments on their websites:

What happened after 7 news sites got rid of reader comments Recode, Reuters, Popular Science, The Week, Mic, The Verge, and USA Today's FTW have all shut off reader comments in the past year. Here's how they're all using social media to encourage reader discussion.

Newsonomics: 10 headlines we may see this fall about the future of news From pipes to platforms, overseas to over-the-top, the shifts we'll see in the remainder of 2015 will set the stage for 2016 and beyond.

In India, many nowadays rely on their mobiles to surf the web. That's good for podcasts because they're "cheap and easy" -- to produce and to consume:

India’s smartphone boom is triggering a wave of podcast experiments Indian listeners are finally tuning in.

What do Buzzfeed, Vice, Quartz, The Guardian and The New York Times do right? Lucy Küng, research fellow at Oxford University and faculty member of IMIM_Master, has just published her analysis of these five digital news organisations:

Seven factors of success for digital news operations | imim Buzzfeed, Vice, The Guardian, Quartz and The New York Times: they all are considered role models – but do they deserve it? Lucy Küng, a research fellow at Oxford University’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and outstanding lecturer in our Master’s program, had a close look at the bunch…

As this was most probably news only in German speaking countries today: N24 whom we just visited 2 weeks ago will abandon their brand. From now on the station will be part of the brand DIE WELT.

Einheitliches Markendach: Aus N24 wird Welt Über eine Namensänderung von N24 wurde schon im Zuge der Übernahme durch Springer spekuliert, nun ist sie beschlossene Sache: N24 verschwindet als Marke, künftig werden alle Angebot unter dem Markendach "Welt" laufen. Die Umstellung wird schrittweise erfolgen.

Our imim students are in the middle of their thesis research -- and presented their preliminary status in Berlin last week. Besides, they visited C3 Creative Code and Content, DIE WELT and N24: http://www.imim-master.com/blog/2015/06/the-final-sprint-for-this-years-cohort/

fjum_forum journalismus und medien wien hosted last Thursday's second Media Innovation Day in Vienna. The question was: how to become a unique media brand? Inspirational answers were given by guests from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, the US and others -- but, actually, each media has to find one themselves.