Ian Burrell: The News Business

Covering the most powerful media companies to the smartest startups, former Independent media editor Ian Burrell examines the fraught problem of how news is funded today. Follow Ian @iburrell.

Ian Burrell: The News Business

Europe is in tumult – but does the public care? Euronews' future is on the line

How Open Democracy finds funding to investigate dark money in politics

Byline pivots to print, promising to tell readers 'what the papers don’t say'

A force for good in news? Google says it's forging a new 'sharing culture' in media

How Reuters turbocharged its news agency business by becoming a devotee of UGC

The Telegraph's roadmap to 1m paying subscribers and financial sustainability

As it strives for 10m subscribers, The New York Times is expanding in the UK

From Nando's to a refugee camp, Tortoise is taking its newsroom out into the real world

Brexit or no Brexit, The New European will remain in print – but not as we know it

Is this the monetisation model that will sustain open access journalism?

How Mosaic doubled its traffic by prizing quality science reporting over quantity

AP set for artificial intelligence breakthrough in verifying user-generated video

The man who built his own media empire – in reverse

How The Guardian built an Oscar-nominated documentary studio inside its news business

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism shows the way to funding for public-interest news

From Twitter to New York cabs and airports – where Bloomberg's TicToc is going next

Why The Economist swapped its famous elitist marketing for emotional messaging

How CNN ventured beyond TV and Trump to grow the world’s largest news audience

Why Channel 4 News is partnering with Facebook – after exposing the platform and calling it...

Amazon, NYT and The Economist are backing two young Irishmen to build the future of audio news