Cutting advertising meant losing revenue in exchange for trust. For DailySocial, it was a worthy tradeoff, says founder Rama Mamuaya.

The company has increased the number of events it runs four-fold, while lowering costs by 15 percent, says events head Razlan Manjaji.

Meet Girlhood, a digital media by and for teenage girls, that empowers and enables them to tell their own stories.

No CTO? No problem. You just need to prioritize the problems you want to solve with the right tech stack, says Emma Carew Grovum.

Raising money isn’t rocket science. Just remember that it’s all about cultivating relationships, says Luminate’s Melanie Hui.

“We as an industry need to drive policy reform, allow portfolio careers, allow sabbaticals, and allow careers that are a combination of entrepreneurship and corporate employment,” said Anita Zielina from Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.

If you leave it there, data is just a number, but it can be an asset if one finds value in it, according to SCMP’s Lead Data Scientist Emily Xuan.

Livestreaming is a way to bring audiences who are stuck at home to places that they can’t go, and show them what’s going on there, says Simon Kearney at Click2View.

“It’s not about what they want to hear, it’s about what they need to hear. You just have to make sure it’s delivered in the right tone on the right platforms,” said Ian Yee from R.AGE on engaging with young viewers.

Create loyalty, build habits, drive dialogue through these best practices, say Facebook’s Ankur Mehra and Dara Levy.

From media to technology, different phases of our journey will make us a different company. But what helps us navigate the journey is the ambition to unlock human potential, says co-founder Shobhit Banga.

“Our mission is to share the joy, the power, and the value in listening,” says Roby Alampay, the founder of Puma Podcast.

It is really important to have a relationship between storytelling and design as people need stories to understand how the product relates to them, according to Juliana Proserpio at Echos.

“Fundraising is a series of habits. It’s not something you can do occasionally,” says Bridget Gallagher. “It needs to be the first thing on your mind when you wake up and last thing when you go to bed to have any success.”

“As democratic media spaces empty, undemocratic media actors occupy them… Funding media has a positive impact on its freedom and reduces misinformation,” according to Nishant Lalwani.

CEO Sonny Swe recommends you start by asking your readers an inconvenient question: What do you want from us?

The digital marketplace aims to connect newsrooms so they collaborate on projects — and share the costs of coverage, say the team behind Mediabridge.

The massive layoffs at the start of the year have eased but new skills are now in demand, according to Haikel Fahim.

Membership newsrooms require skills you probably don’t have in place. Here’s a hiring guide from Membership Puzzle Project.

Kuang Keng Kuek Ser, the founder of Malaysia-based DataN which helps newsrooms with data journalism, wants you to know it’s easier than you think.