In the third instalment of News International’s Future Laboratory news trends, Abba Newbery takes a look a trend that’s already seeing heavy investment from newsbrands: Convivial News – where connections between like-minded readers has created huge new commercial and engagement opportunities.

In the second part of our series examining the findings of a ground-breaking study from The Future Laboratory, News International’s Abba Newbery investigates ‘Authoritative News’ and the ways that newsbrands can present confident leadership and a strong point of view for their audience to align with

In the first part of a new four part special, News International’s Abba Newbery presents the findings of a ground-breaking new study from The Future Laboratory exploring future trends for news. In part one, Newbery looks at ‘Intuitive News’ and the impact of consumer ‘stuffocation’ in a relentless, 24/7 digital age…

News International’s Abba Newbery explains ‘News 3.0’ – a new face-to-face consumer engagement project to help define the future of news.

John Lewis and Apple have embraced the best of both physical and virtual retail, combining on and offline to profitable effect says News International’s Abba Newbery. And the newspaper market is doing the same – offering a great physical experience backed up by a complementary online engagement.

The accepted orthodoxy is that print is about to die, but News International’s Abba Newbery is not convinced. New technologies mean that both paper and the web can work together. Is this part of the Third Age of News?

At the recent Newsworks tablet debate ‘What Next For Tablets?’ much discussion centred on whether the tablet should be treated differently as a separate channel or as part of total newspaper sales…

Abba Newbery, director of advertising strategy at News International, ponders whether 2013 will eventually be the year of mobile as publishers provide more and more augmented reality capability to tap into the growing number of consumers accessing content via smartphones and tablets. Every year (for at least the few I can remember) seems to have… Continue reading Augmented reality exciting for publishers and advertisers

Abba Newbery, director of advertising strategy at News International, on the big trends that will fundamentally impact the way we publish the newspaper of the future…

Abba Newbery, director of advertising strategy at News International Commercial, on how the Olympics can inspire media planners…