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Fighting for journalism and profitable news media
MSN drops publishers without notice | Home Office photo guidance 'poses risk'
Plus Future’s operations director Catherine Westwood shares digital transformation leadership lessons
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Good afternoon from the team at Press Gazette on Wednesday, 26 August.
⚠️ Today we have a warning about being too reliant on one platform as several independent publishers have reported being abruptly removed from MSN.
It follows a similar lesson last week as Pink News is making cuts due to changes to how Snapchat distributes and monetises publisher content.
Gone are the days of being a Google-reliant publisher, or an MSN one, or a Facebook success story.
Hello! is my favourite recent example of this, pivoting from a reliance on Google (particularly Google Discover) towards MSN, but also a raft of other syndication partners as well as a paid community.
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🖥️ Our latest What I’ve Learned interviewee is Future operations director Catherine Westwood, who shares some valuable leadership lessons learned through various phases of digital transformation.
Last week our featured interviewee’s inspiration was Margaret Thatcher. Now we’ve gone back even further in time to a Roman emperor.
Westwood’s current work is focused around upskilling editorial operations staff to master cross-platform workflows, going beyond traditional print/digital production.
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📖 And finally, a Home Office booklet with guidance on life in the UK for asylum seekers widely made headlines last week.
But one concerning area for journalists has now been spotted: readers are told “do not photograph or film people in public” and this is quickly conflated with the illegal sharing of sexual pictures.
Concerns have been raised that this will put journalists in danger from people who, as a result, mistakenly believe people taking photos in public are breaking the law even if there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.
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