April 29, 2010 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Canada’s Pirate Party receives official status. Take a seat, Tea Partiers. There’s a new batch of troublemakers taking names. On April 12th, the Pirate Party of Canada – a party whose platform includes securing the...
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April 28, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Tina Bettels
Interview with Bruno Ingemann, consultant and lecturer at the Danish School of Journalism. How do you think journalism will change in the next 10 years? There will definitely be more interaction with the public – we’re only...
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April 22, 2010 •
Media and Politics, Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) meets in Istanbul, agrees to push Brussels. The annual EFJ meeting in Istanbul, drawing journalists from 24 countries, incited plans to encourage Brussels to respond to the European media crisis by...
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April 20, 2010 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
New study explores ideological segregation on the Web. According to David Brooks of the New York Times, “In the mid-20th century, Americans got most of their news through a few big networks and mass-market magazines. People were...
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April 15, 2010 •
Media and Politics •
by Kate Nacy
EJO research on German project Peace Counts In her contribution to Peace Journalism, War and Conflict Resolution, a compilation of essays on the subject of peace journalism by Richard Keeble, Florian Zollmann, and John Tulloch, Marlis...
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April 15, 2010 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
The 210-year-old Library of Congress will begin archiving Tweets. Twitter, the blogging service responsible for popularizing 140-character microblips of “information” (define loosely), will join the ranks of culturally...
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April 13, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Kate Nacy
Journalist Nicholas Jones discusses the maladies of celebrity reportage and the effect on British journalism. Occasionally crass, often contrived star-riddled stories plague the UK press, and according to Jones, the ethical slips...
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April 12, 2010 •
Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
According to research conducted by the McKinsey group, the Internet is the driving force behind an increase in UK news consumption. Two surveys conducted in the UK in 2006 and 2009 reveal that consumption rose to 72 minutes per day, up...
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April 12, 2010 •
Digital News, Newsroom Management •
by Kate Nacy
TimesCast captures newsroom missteps. Last month the New York Times launched TimesCast, a daily video produced during morning meetings in the newsroom. The mini program summarizes major stories and includes interviews with the staff,...
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