| January 29, 2021
With Executive Editor Marty Baron announcing his retirement on Tuesday, The Washington Post joins a growing list of news organisations looking for a new editor, including The Los Angeles Times, Reuters, HuffPost, Vox, and Wired. The New York Times may also soon be on the hunt for new leadership, with 64-year-old executive editor Dean Baquetâs retirement fast approaching.
According to Axiosâ Sara Fischer, these departures will make way for a new generation of newsroom leaders, âone that’s addicted to technology, demands accountability and expects diversity to be a priority.â
âThe new editors chosen to lead these newsrooms must be willing to approach journalism in a new way,â she continues.
The federal government is talking tough about making Google and Facebook pay Australian news businesses for linking to, or featuring, these publishers’ content.
The digital platforms have been talking equally tough. Facebook is threatening to remove Australian news stories and Google says it will shut off search to Australia if the government pushes ahead with its “mandatory bargaining code”.
The code is meant to help alleviate the revenue crisis facing news publishers. Over the past two decades they have made deep cuts to newsrooms. Scores of local print papers have become “digital only” or been shut down completely.
If legislated, the code will require the platforms to negotiate payments to news publishers, as well as disclose changes in algorithms affecting traffic to news sites.
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She will take on an expanded role in shaping the Institute s strategy and management
Meera Selva.
Thursday 21 January 2021
Meera Selva has been named Deputy Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in addition to continuing in her role as Director of Journalist Fellowship Programmes. She will take on an expanded role in institute strategy and management as part of the senior management team and deputise for Director Rasmus Nielsen.
Her expanded role comes as the institute continues to expand its activities across journalist programmes, leadership development, and research, as well as communications.
Meera joined the Reuters Institute as Director of the Journalist Fellowship Programme in 2017 from a role as editor of the English-language