Website: http://en.ejo.ch/about/staff/united-states-of-america-school-of-journalism-and-communication-univers
Thomas Schmidt is a doctoral student at the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. Prior to his academic career, Thomas was a reporter for Kleine Zeitung, Austria’s second largest daily newspaper, the monthly narrative magazine Datum, and ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation). He also served as the inaugural director of “biber-Akademie”, a training program for young would-be journalists from immigrant families in Vienna.
June 30, 2017 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality, Latest stories •
by Thomas Schmidt
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in newsrooms has a lot of potential for smarter journalism. Yet, as newsrooms increasingly experiment with new technologies, such as machine learning and natural language processing, they also run into...
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May 16, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Latest stories, Newsroom Management •
by Thomas Schmidt
Imagine you’re a journalist in 2027. You get in your self-driving car and while your personal virtual assistant reads you the headlines, the car’s sensors detect a deterioration in air quality. A quick statistical analysis...
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November 7, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Recent, Research •
by Thomas Schmidt
Journalists no longer just inform their audiences. They engage with their users. As a result, media outlets are pouring more resources into building the infrastructure for interaction. Audience engagement has become a priority in newsroom...
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January 27, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Short stories •
by Thomas Schmidt
In the name of ‘freeing the local population from government control’, a group of armed men occupied a government building, entrenched themselves and blackmailed federal authorities. Patriots or terrorists? This question...
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July 23, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by Thomas Schmidt
It’s not far fetched to say that David Ho knows a thing or two about mobile and online journalism. He was founding editor of the Wall Street Journal’s iPad edition in 2010, back when tablets were still cutting edge. Recently he was...
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June 12, 2015 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Thomas Schmidt
Faced with fierce attacks for a recent story, Seymour Hersh, one of America’s most legendary and revered journalists, recently addressed more than two hundred investigative reporters from around the United States to talk about his...
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May 20, 2015 •
Digital News, Latest stories •
by Thomas Schmidt
Hyperbole is never far away when Facebook introduces innovations. Typically it involves some talk about saving the planet, creating the future or some iteration of “this will forever change the way how we read/write/communicate.” Not...
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April 16, 2015 •
Business Models •
by Thomas Schmidt
The future of the news business is in relationships. That’s Ken Doctor’s response to the continuing economic distress of newspapers. The avid media analyst and sought-after guru of all things newsonomics argues that news organizations...
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March 25, 2015 •
Research, Short stories •
by Thomas Schmidt
If you think about journalism as a particular culture, it is only logical to study it like other cultures—by going out into the field and examining it at close range. That is why a new generation of journalism researchers has...
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