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

Right place, right time: how Newsflare built a business on thrill-seeking footage

At The Investigative Journal, frontline reporters join forces to fight censorship

The 'George Alagiah effect': how BBC News at Six holds firm as the UK's biggest bulletin

Press Association drops 150-year-old name to signify new era beyond legacy media

NewsMavens shows how different the world looks when women choose the news

The Overtake is on a drive to prove national news can thrive outside London's media bubble

How NewsNow fought off legal threats and media scorn to aggregate 13,000 publishers

Why Forbes has put under-30s at the heart of its global growth strategy

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