An International Media Support
and Danwatch Collaboration
Good journalism needs workable technical solutions
The Digital Publishing Lab surfaces and shares bespoke and tested digital publishing technology
Tools and expertise for media partners in IMS country programmes to make online publishing simple
We facilitate partner to partner exchange for relevant tips on technical solutions that work
How will the media benefit?
Save money on premium tools already paid for
IMS media partners can sign up for a growing range of digital publishing tools. You benefit from savings on listed prices where IMS has paid for the subscription on your behalf. Contact us to request or recommend a tool.
Avoid mistakes with well tested and customized tools
Avoid mistakes or wasted time by drawing on open source tools we have already tried and tested with other media partners. Contact us for advice.
Access to training, support and peer partners
We offer support to get the partner set up with digital publishing tools, and can connect with other media partners facing similar challenges. Reach out for more information.
News
We see the urge for many partners to engage with and bring their audiences closer. This is motivated by a wish to better know and understand their audience – and/or a need for new streams of revenue.
Digital Publishing Lab has made it a focus in 2025 to identify useful and economic solution(s) for small and medium sized partner media.
If you have any insights on this, that you would like to share, please reach out! Maybe you are already using a system, that you love (or hate), og maybe you have heard of CRM’s that you would like us to take into consideration. We are all ears.
The project is assisted by MENA business advisor Hala Bajani.
In November the IMS’ Asia department held a workshop for partners that partly consisted of a digital news room simulation. The participants were divided into groups and made responsible for their “own” media site created for the workshop. Here they should cover a fictional typhoon based on inputs from (fictional) news telegrams, (fictional) social media posts and a constant flow of (fictional) data coming for their website analytics and their social media platforms.
The purpose of the training was to show participants how the real time data on audiences can be applied in newsroom decision making to inform content and distribution strategies.
The 3 media sites were created by Digital Publishing Lab, and the participants were able to
- publish articles in different formats,
- prioritize the articles on the home page,
- change content of a banner and
- post social media content (in a separate section on the website).
See an example from the workshop here.
Do you want to learn more, please reach out to IMS Asia senior adviser Emilie Lehmann-Jacobsen on ele@mediasupport.org.
Inhiyez has got a new website. In short: Better reach (faster performance), simpler design, easier maintenance, better handling of infographics and video.
IMS-contact: Abir Bechwal / Julie Canclini
In March we launched the new website of Al Aalem Al-Jadeed. The site was migrated from a custom CMS to WordPress and the IMS News Template was the starting point for their new website. An external design agency was involved. The database migration was handled by Qurium.
IMS-contact: Henrik Andersen
In february 2024 we finally launched the new website of NIRIJ. The website now highlights video content, has a cleaner backend, better site performance etc. Built on the IMS News Template.
IMS-contact: Henrik Andersen
A website for Sudanese political satire cartoons was launched in February ’24. The site is built on the IMS News Template. Visit khartoonmag.com here.
IMS-contact: Andreas Sugar | Partner: Khalid Albaih
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