October 23, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Public Relations •
by Kate Nacy
We’ve long hailed the Internet as the great liberator, the free-sharing facilitator. But with the business of burying information booming, how accurate can this be? In a recent NPR story, Peter O’Dowd discusses digital...
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October 20, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Marcello Foa
Big Brother is about to step his way into media. For once, it isn’t Berlusconi. In fact, according to English papers, the concentration of TV channels belonging to Berlusconi is marginal compared to what is about to occur in Great...
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October 19, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
An overview of financing models in the Anglo-Saxon world. As the traditional business model for journalism no longer works, the publishing industry, Internet start-ups and consultants search for new ways to support newsrooms without...
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October 18, 2010 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
With the publication of a new edition, the BBC’s editorial guidelines now include recommendations on the use of social media and user-generated content. Replacing the previous 2005 edition, the new edition covers BBC Online content,...
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October 16, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Piero Macri
Seventy minutes is the average time an American citizen devotes to the news. The Web grows, newspapers lose readers, radio and TV remain consistent. In the last 20 years news sources for Americans have changed significantly. According to...
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October 10, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Andreas Sträter
Reporting on tragedy requires thick skin. The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma offers help to journalists who find themselves in grievous circumstances. When the Duisburg Love Parade went from celebratory to hysterical, reporters,...
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October 7, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Modern wars are fought on at least two frontiers. There’s the military battlefield, and then there’s the media front, where the visceral darkness of war (collateral damages, tragedy, human suffering) must be distorted in order to...
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October 5, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Piero Macri
More speed, more news, more traffic. How the click-per-view logic changed journalism. The cover story of the latest issue of the Columbia Journalism Review, “The Hamster Wheel,” penned by Dean Starkman, analyzes and openly criticizes...
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October 4, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
Polis report discusses new media communication tools and the concept of networked journalism. Released this past summer, “The Value of Networked Journalism” sprung from four years of research at Polis, the journalism think-tank...
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