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 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

Al Jazeera defies Saudi ban and plans knockout play for global millennial market

How becoming the media champion of a People's Vote has revived The Independent

How historic news business Magnum Photos morphed into a multi-revenue media brand

Massacre journalists face fresh police probe – just as they're forging a new model for news

From CNBC to Sky, Comcast is the new powerhouse of global news media

How ex-ad boss Tracy De Groose will rebrand the unjustly 'beaten-up' newspaper industry

Why the Scots value local papers more than the English

Departing ITN chief John Hardie: 'Macho media culture has got to go'

BuzzFeed bets its future on being the home of ‘adulting’ advice

The FT will next year hit 1m subscribers, 17 years after putting up its paywall