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FIRST CHANGE EVERYTHING Producing video for the small screen
HOW WE WANTED OUR NEWSROOMS TO WORK
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU| |INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENTMEDIA
MEDIA SA | INMA
MAY 2019
HOW OUR NEWSROOMS WORKED VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU | INDEPENDENT MEDIA SA | INMA 2019
CONTENT
1. ABOUT US
2. FIRST CHANGE EVERYTHING
a. STRATEGY
b. STRUCTURE
c. PERFORMANCE METRICS
d. WORKFLOWS
3. OUR VIDEO PLAY: EXAMPLES
4. WHAT WE LEARNED
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU| |INDEPENDENT
INDEPENDENTMEDIA
MEDIA SA | INMA
MAY 2019
ABOUT US
WHERE WE WERE …
ABOUT US
Powerful heritage newspapers
Loyal print readers THE OPPORTUNITY
One of SA’s largest newsrooms 1. Brand independent as a digital first, print
Digital audience of 4.5M best experience
Daily readership of 2 million 2. Meet readers where they are
Weekend readership 1.5 million 3. Build content solutions for advertisers
Vernacular & community papers 4. Tell stories in any format - text, images,
readership 2.8 million video and graphics
5. Free newsrooms from the tyranny of print
6. Experiment, Test, Measure, Make
Changes and do it all over again
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU | INDEPENDENT MEDIA SA | INMA 2019
THE KEY CHALLENGES
1. CREAKY PRINT WORKFLOWS
2. DIGITAL GHETTO – SMALL SEPARATE DIGITAL TEAM
3. JOURNALISTS UNSURE OF DIGITAL, MOBILE AND VIDEO
4. EDITORS UNSURE OF THEIR PLACE IN A NEW WORLD SCRIPTED
BY GOOGLE, FACEBOOK AND NEW MEDIA
5. REVENUE TAPS RUNNING DRY WHILE MASSIVE INVESTMENT
NEEDED IN NEW TECH
6. LITTLE DATA AND SCIENCE DRIVING THE BUSINESS
7. NEW ‘ALIEN’ CONTENT FORMATS: VIDEO, AUDIO, SLIDESHOWS …
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU | INDEPENDENT MEDIA SA | INMA 2019
WHAT WE NEEDED TO FIX
THE BUSINESS THE NEWSROOM THE TOOLS
1. Designed around print: 1. Resistant to new skills 1. IT infrastructure had not
skills, workflows, 2. Resistance from editors to kept pace
infrastructure and new workflows/structure 2. Years of under-investment
objectives/KPAs 3. No cohesion by previous owners, from
2. Head in the sand about a. Separate digital/print storage to security
shifts in the industry: 3. Content Management
b. Did not work across
• Growth of digital and geographies System could not handle
social media c. Duplication of beats new digital workflows
• Flight of readers to new 4. Non existent digital skills: 4. Journalists did not have
platforms smart phones
a. No understanding of SEO
• The changed realities 5. Data was too expensive
b. No video skills
of media economics
including the shift of c. No content produced for
advertising spend to anything but newspapers
digital and mobile d. Slow
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU | INDEPENDENT MEDIA SA | INMA 2019
STRATEGY | STRUCTURE | PERFORMANCE METRICS | WORKFLOWS
WHAT WE
CHANGED
FIRST CHANGE EVERYTHING
BAR STRATEGY Build the BRAND | Grow AUDIENCE | Grow REVENUE
NEW STRUCTURE National newsroom | Regional newsrooms | Production
FIRST PMS Editors Playbooks | New KPIs for journalists
WORKFLOWS Digital First, Print Best | Living Diaries | Live Diary | WhatsApp Groups
PRODUCT PORTFOLIO Modernise Print | Grow Digital | Build Video | Fast and Slow
LEARNING MOJO | Training Tuesdays | Internships | Bootcamps | Master ClassesTHE BAR STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
BRAND AUDIENCE REVENUE
Custom Content
Tech-led content company Improve Reader Experience
Content Services
Digital First, Print Best Augment Print
Digital Campaigns
An African media brand Reach readers where they are
Programmatic
Innovative & Experimental Deliver Video
Events
Media for Social Good
Video
All editors report against BAR
Resulted in our first Performance Management System with BAR metrics
Knitted a large organisation of separate business entities behind a common strategic
framework AND collective goals
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU | INDEPENDENT MEDIA SA | INMA 2019NEWSROOM STRUCTURE
1. New focus on digital
2. The creation of national Specialized Content
Business Units in key content areas
• Lifestyle
• Politics
• Business
• Sport Title
3. A restructuring of teams that worked on the Live newsrooms
Newsroom
newspaper titles - smaller, tighter teams with x 17
a new focus on Metro journalism
4. Appointment of Live Editors (digital first
editors) at the same level as Assignment Editorial
National
Editors who, together, formed the Live Newsrooms
Production
Newsroom and who co-ordinated the efforts X4
of the newsrooms with respect to breaking
news and video
5. Appointment of Content Producers
6. Journalists re-appointed as Multi Media
Journalists
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU | INDEPENDENT MEDIA SA | INMA 2019PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
The group's first Performance Management System for Editorial including:
1. Brand Maps for each title that spoke to the Group’s strategic intent
2. Editor's Playbooks (annual plan) which set out print, digital and commercial
KPAs and KPIs
3. Key Performance Indicators for all journalists that included measurable print
and digital tasks Initially focused on delivery of digital first content
1. Publish to digital
2. Produce Video
3. Produce digital packages
4. Annual Skills Audit to measure success
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU | INDEPENDENT MEDIA SA | INMA 2019PRINT REDESIGN
1. Unify 14 regional brands behind Brand
Independent with common design
language
2. Spend less time on newspaper production
3. Modernise for a digital first consumer
4. Align to BAR - brand, audience, revenue
5. Make it easier for content and production
teams to deliver newspapers in less time
but with more and better content
6. Link print to digital via tools such as
Augmented Reality to trigger video
content
7. Introduction of card: News You Can Use;
Digital First; Lists and Guides
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU | INDEPENDENT MEDIA SA | INMA 2019PRINT REDESIGN
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ELECTION
DA stands firmly EDITORIAL STARTING POINT (WITH SKYBOX AD)
behind Maimane
While ANC announces seven of its eight premiers-elect
MAYIBONGWE MAQHINA Mandela Bay Federal Congress, and his a party that occupies governments that
unopposed election in 2018,” Trollip serve around 15-million people, and the
THE federal executive of the DA has said. way they campaigned.
thrown its weight behind party leader He also said they were faced with The review was something that hap-
Mmusi Maimane following speculation internal challenges and significant pens from time to time, he explained.
about his future after his party shed 2% changes in the political landscape, The party last held a review in 2005 CASTER Semenya’s fight against the International Association of Athletics Federations continues to gather support, with Sports Minister Tokozile
of the national vote. including the rise of nationalism on while under the leadership of Tony Xasa announcing Athletics South Africa would be filing an appeal at the Swiss Federal Tribunal. | KAMRAN JEBREILI AP Photo
This as the ANC, after a special meet- both the left and the right. Leon, Trollip said.
ing of the national executive committee “In short, both internally and exter- While not willing to talk about their
(NEC) last night, announced seven of nally there were matters we had to grap- challenges, he said they would start a NATION
it’s eight premiers-elect in the eight ple with. We will be the first to state that listening campaign in provinces and
Semenya’s appeal gaining momentum
provinces that they run. The North West these factors had a role to play in our regions. Speaking on the organisational
premier-elect will be announced “in due electoral fortunes,” Trollip said. review, Fedex chairperson James Selfe
course”. “As the DA we are holding the said they have a way to select candidates
Speaking after the DA federal execu- moderate non-racial centre ground; an and evaluate public representatives.
tive meeting yesterday, the party said it important position in the rise of pop- “We want to see whether those
took responsibility for the outcomes of ulism.” systems are appropriate to serve for a OCKERT DE VILLIERS According to the ministry, ASA jurisdictions to sign a petition, peti-
elections whether good or bad. The party lost some votes to Good different constituency we had in 2004,” applied for two of the arbitrators to tioning the IAAF to rescind the regula-
“That burden does not sit on the and Freedom Front Plus as well official Selfe said. CASTER Semenya’s fight against the recuse themselves since they handled tions and to lobby against the current
shoulders of an individual,” federal opposition in KwaZulu-Natal among Meanwhile, the ANC’s premiers- IAAF has gathered momentum, with the the earlier case of Indian sprinter Dutee executive of the IAAF.” The CAS ruled
chairperson Athol Trollip said at a press others. Its majority was reduced in the elect in seven of its eight provinces are government set to approach the UN and Chand. in favour of the IAAF in Semenya’s
conference. Western Cape, down to 55.45%. Sihle Zikalala in KwaZulu-Natal, David Athletics SA (ASA) to appeal the Court ASA will argue the scientific, medical challenge to the regulations that would
Trollip said Maimane remained their “Where the losses occurred, we will Makhura in Gauteng, Oscar Mabuyane of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) ruling on and legal case they presented before the require athletes with differences of sex
our leader until a federal congress sched- work on regaining the trust of the peo- in the Eastern Cape, Zamani Saul in the controversial female eligibility rules. CAS did not match the outcome. development to lower their testosterone.
uled for 2021 decided otherwise. ple as we head into the 2021 Local Northern Cape, Sisi Ntombela in Free Sports Minister Tokozile Xasa added “The pertinent legal questions that Semenya has meanwhile made it
“Any talk of a change of a leadership Government Elections. This starts with State, Stan Mathabatha in Limpopo and her weight to the fightback yesterday, the court should have addressed were clear she would not be complying with
change before a federal congress must be two by-elections taking place in Nelson Refilwe Mtsweni in Mpumalanga. announcing ASA would be filing an not addressed,” the sports ministry the regulations that went into effect
dispelled,” he said. Mandela Bay as early as Wednesday; “The province gives us three names appeal at the Swiss Federal Tribunal. said. “The Government will also have last week. —
14 2019
“As the leadership of the party, at this will be the start of winning back as per resolution of conference and we Xasa said the department would to mobilise and educate society on the The IAAF said because it was aTUES DAY, MAY
private
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both a national and provincial level, the Bay.” decide on one,” ANC secretary general “intensify the international lobby and key arguments and tenets of the case. body it was not “subject .IOL.to human rights
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we are unambiguous in our support He also announced that there would Ace Magashule said. ‘‘In circumstances to approach the UN General Assembly “The minister was also pleased SOUTH AFRIC such as the Universal Dec-
instruments,
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for Mr Maimane who has led the DA be a review of the organisational struc- there are issues and challenges, we are to sanction the IAAF for violating Inter- with the commitment by ASA to DED 1852, laration of Human Rights or the Euro-
lobby
— FOUN
with exemption since the 2015 Nelson ture and how they can best operate as still the relevant body to decide.” national Human Rights Instruments”. national athletics associations in other pean Convention on Human Rights”.
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1. Migration to the cloud
2. A new home grown Content Management System, Baobab
3. Video conferencing to improve communication between regions and within
business units spread throughout the country used for:
1. Weekly diary meetings
2. Daily Live Diary meeting every morning
3. Weekly Digital First training
4. Strategy sessions
4. New Bring Your Own Device mobile allowances for all multi media journalists
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU | INDEPENDENT MEDIA SA | INMA 2019LEARNING
1. Launched Mojo 4 years ago – journalism graduates with digital and
mobile skills to work with newsrooms and produce video and mobile
first journalism
2. Workshopped newsrooms around the new business strategy, Digital
First, Print best
3. Month-long boot camps focused on digital skills
4. Weekly Tuesday lunch time training session for all journalists on
skills from writing for digital to video creation and production
5. Just launched Master Classes on Thursdays (SEO, Produce Quality
Video, How to use Baobab better)
6. Annual program of internships to bring new digital journalism
graduates into the newsrooms
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU | INDEPENDENT MEDIA SA | INMA 2019WORKFLOWS
1. National Newsrooms produce centralised
pages and deliver to the streams
2. Live Diary lives on WhatsApp and team
PM
meets daily at 8.30am to set the digital AM
STREAM
first agenda for the day STREAM
3. Teams work three shifts: 6am to 2pm, 8m THE STAR
PRETORIA NEWS
NATIONAL CAPE ARGUS
to 4pm and 2pm to 10pm to drive content CAPE TIMES
DAILY NEWS
to digital THE MERCURY
LIFESTYLE
4. Morning diaries are focused on what’s POLITICS
SPORT
trending, video, breaking news SATURDAY BUSINESS SUNDAY
5. Mid morning diaries are focused on print STREAM STREAM
line-up SATURDAY STAR SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
6. National Newsrooms have a Living Diary SATURDAY ARGUS SUNDAY ARGUS
that sits on the Google Drive which sets out INDEPENDENT ON SAT SUNDAY TRIBUNE
the team’s weekly plans for text, video,
packages, print best stories, solutions and
enterprise packages
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU | INDEPENDENT MEDIA SA | INMA 2019AGGREGATE | PRODUCE | SHARE OUR VIDEO PLAY
WHAT WE’VE DONE
1. Experimented with our own video platform - Video360 - which now houses
3 000 videos produced by Mojo and our journalists.
2. Journalists embed video into our print storytelling on our main site IOL.CO.ZA
3. Journalists share video to social – Facebook and Twitter - and drive that
audience to IOL.CO.ZA
4. We’ve produced about 100 short video stories for commercial clients
5. Videos are produced mostly on mobile
6. We use video to drive our Media for Social Good campaigns – Racism Stops
With Me; Don’t Look Away
7. We run Video Story Campaigns (#Born Free/Elections 2019)
8. We trigger Augmented Reality on print stories to take readers to video on
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VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU | INDEPENDENT MEDIA SA | INMA 2019RESULTS
Between 10 and 15 videos produced a day
News and Entertainment deliver the most videos
‘Storifying’ curated user videos do well
Highest performing video had 272,929 PVs
90% of videos are produced on mobiles and edited on the fly
120 000 users clicked on video in the past month
Video is contributing 7.5 % of total IOL audience, up from 4.8% last year
Video accounts for about 10% of total digital revenue monthly
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU | INDEPENDENT MEDIA SA | INMA 2019MEDIA FOR SOCIAL GOOD AWARD WINNING DON’T LOOK AWAY CAMPAIGN AGAINST GENDER BASED VIOLENCE
3. COMMERCIAL VIDEO
#ELECTIONS 2019/CAMPAIGN
#ELECTIONS 2019/STORIES
#ELECTIONS 2019/EXPLAINERS
#ELECTIONS 2019/BORN FREE
TOP PERFORMING VIDEOS THIS YEAR
1. WATCH: Bo-Kaap residents describe horror knife attack on French UCT student
2. WATCH: Flood wreaks havoc in Chatsworth
3. WATCH: Driver of BMW seriously injured in 'illegal race' on N1
4. WATCH: Gang ‘revenge hit’
5. LOOK: Mother nature bares her teeth after night of heavy rains in Durban
Local video with catchy titles have driven more users to the site and users view them
and share them on their social media.
Crime does well
Weather does well
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU | INDEPENDENT MEDIA SA | INMA 2019SHORT NEWS VIDEO
WARNING: NOT FOR SENSITIVE VIWERS
WARNING: NOT FOR SENSITIVE VIWERSSKILLS } MINDSET } INFRASTRUCTURE WHAT WE LEARNED
WHAT WE LEARNED 1. It’s hard 2. It’s okay if the first videos are rough 3. Some journalists will thrive, most will struggle 4. User videos do best 5. We must caption for users on the go 6. Best performing videos average 20 seconds 7. Shoot for mobile - vertical not horizontal 8. Our video storytelling needs to mature 9. Editors need to champion video and audio 10. Data is expensive – readers will only watch IF it is absolutely worth it
WHERE WE ARE NOW …
ABOUT US
Powerful heritage newspapers
Loyal print readers
One of SA’s largest newsrooms
Digital audience of 7.5M ACHIEVED
Daily readership of 2 million 1. The Number 2 news site in SA
Weekend readership 1.5 million 2. Between 15-25% users from social
Vernacular & community papers 3. +10 videos produced daily
readership 2.8 million 4. Cut newspaper production time by 40%
5. Over 200 training sessions
6. +100 videos for #elections2019
VASANTHA ANGAMUTHU | INDEPENDENT MEDIA SA | INMA 2019#ELECTIONS 2019/OUR TEAM
WATCH THIS SPACE
ONLY IF NEEDED OPTIONAL SLIDES
REDESIGN PLAN
1. PUT READERS & ADVERTISERS AT THE CENTRE OF OUR PRODUCTS
– Modernised our newspapers for a digital first consumer
– Built new inventory for advertisers
2. EXPRESSED OUR STRATEGY ON THE PAGES OF OUR NEWSPAPERS
– Digital First, Print Best
– Metro and Solutions journalism as our USPs
– A new way of selling
3. MADE OUR JOURNALISTS LIVES EASIER
– Free up editorial resources for digital, custom
publishing AND new content revenue streams
– Made it easier for teams to deliver newspapers in less time but with more and better
contentREDESIGN OBJECTIVES 1. Align all products behind Brand Independent 2. Make newspapers consistent and navigable 3. Make value in reader’s lives a design feature 4. Digital First, Print Best: take readers to digital 5. Integrate design into streams – AM, PM, Saturday, Sunday 6. Better workflows: create, manage, publish with ease 7. Free editorial from tyranny of print to work on revenue projects; digital and new media
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Independent Independent Independent
Lifestyle Business Sport
Independent Independent Independent
Politics Production LiveREDESIGN: NATIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
READERS: 1.6M READERS: 1.2 M WEEKEND READERS: 1.4M (EXCL SI)
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Gauteng and current. ANC chief whip in the value of R1.46 million related to the the South Gauteng Director of Public in Gauteng and curren ANC chief whip in
Gauteng Provincial Legislature. irregular procurement of 3P Consulting Prosecutions for contraventions of the the Gauteng Provincial Legislature.
♦ Sybil Ngcobo, former Gauteng Health to compile the department’s 2007/2008 Prevention and Combating of Corrupt ♦ Sybil Ngcobo, former Gauteng Health
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director of the executive support programme ♦ Irregular expenditure, fraud and and contracting of service providers director of the executive support
management (ESPM). financial misconduct amounting to for the Gauteng Aids Conference in programme management (ESPM).
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♦ Mr Ramogale, the director of finance of the turnaround strategy for the department. misconduct by Ngcobo ♦ Mr Ramogale, the director of finance
ESPM. Hlongwa, Mookeletsi, Mosupi, Ramaano of the ESPM.
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