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

How The Sun took on The Mail online – and won

Inside Euronews NBC: a fresh rolling news channel striving to help save united Europe

How Reuters made a free personalised 'news wire' with app based on 5,000 niche topics

Why Monocle shuns social media in favour of going swimming with its readers

Sky News targets US market as it says Sky takeover drama has been 'very positive' for the news...

BBC claims it has 'created a new editorial resource’ as cache of 11,000 stories is unearthed

How the UK advertising industry 'lost touch' with the public

How 5 News is seizing the opportunity to stand apart from its male-dominated rivals

The Economist's plan to save the world from populism

City AM is forming an exclusive members' club to monetise itself as a lifestyle brand

Why The Guardian believes its app can convert avid readers into paying subscribers

News UK is moving its radio and podcast operation into the heart of its publishing empire

How the music of Ed Sheeran and Adele can help fund the BBC’s journalism

Fewer than one in seven front page photos are taken by women

Chatbots and charlatans: how the BBC is cracking down on fake news

Hundreds of thousands of students are subscribing to The Wall Street Journal and most are women

With Zuckerberg on the ropes, Yahoo aims to displace social media as a home for news

Inside the 'cybernetic newsroom' where Reuters' robots are great at research but not at writing...

Channel 4 News editor urges media to build alternative platform to 'toxic' Facebook

How the New York Times is convincing commercial partners to pay for its journalism