July 22, 2014 •
Digital News, Press Freedom •
by Caroline Lees
An EU ruling, giving individuals the ‘right to be forgotten’ on the internet, has been criticized by UK journalists after Google deleted links to their articles from its search engine. Robert Peston, BBC News economics editor, last...
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November 19, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Meera Selva
Why do countries feel the need to own a news channel? To inform their citizens about the world, or to inform the world about their citizens? A seminar organized by the BBC World Service, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism...
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November 14, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Tina Bettels
The connections between media and politics are deeply rooted in the Italian society and it seems very difficult to separate them, even without the media baron Silvio Berlusconi as the head of the Italian government. This is one of the...
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November 13, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Press Freedom •
by Stewart Purvis
After a career as both a journalist (BBC and ITN) and a regulator (Ofcom) I had come to the conclusion that my colleagues in British journalism weren’t very interested in reading rules that somebody had written for them. How then to...
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September 8, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Meera Selva
Mark Thompson, President and CEO of the New York Times, said the newspaper industry could take lessons from Hollywood in how to generate several sources of revenue from one product. In his first major speech since taking up his post at the...
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December 19, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Klaus Bichler
The new Media Accountability and Transparency (MediaAcT) guidebook presents “best practice” examples exhibited by media outlets across Europe, both online and in print. The media industry, particularly in Europe and the US, is in...
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December 14, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
BBC was among the many Western media outlets to ridicule a Chinese newspaper for being fooled by an article on an American satirical website calling the Korean leader Kim Jong-un the sexiest man alive. Only a few days later the BBC’s own...
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March 29, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Media Economics •
by Kate Nacy
A study conducted by Skillset – a UK media training body – concludes that 44 percent of workers in the creative media industry perform unpaid labor in order to secure positions in the field. According to Skillset, entering the...
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