October 6, 2015 •
Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by EJO
The work practices of the professional photojournalist are undergoing rapid changes in the digital era. New technologies, platforms and methods of visual storytelling are exerting a range of pressures and influences that require...
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September 30, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The preoccupation that we could be drowned by too many news and advertising messages, and that we are “over-newsed and under-informed” may be yesterday’s headache. The challenge for the future is to ensure that we will not...
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September 7, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Thomas Kent
Virtual reality journalism is with us to stay, and will become even more realistic and immersive as technology improves. Already, virtual reality (VR) headsets and vivid sound tracks can put a viewer into stunning, 360-degree scenes of a...
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July 31, 2015 •
Digital News, Short stories •
by Rachel Stern
Located in an airy office in Berlin’s Mitte neighbourhood, newscase is a fast-growing, profitable Berlin journalism start-up – without any journalists. Newscase is an aggregator with a difference. It distributes the content of 100...
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July 27, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by Caroline Lees
The most successful digital news organisations share seven key elements, new research reveals. Clear vision; clear organisational strategy; a coherent business model; strong leadership; digital talent; a pro-digital culture and an ability...
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July 17, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Rrapo Zguri
A bill aimed at regulating comments online has been described as an attack on freedom of expression in Albania. Under the proposed new law online media administrators who publish, or allow the publication of comments “that affect the...
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June 29, 2015 •
Media Economics, Short stories •
by José Moreno
What is the single most striking element explaining the difficulty in the discovery and implementation of new business models for the media in the digital age? According to a recent paper published in the Portuguese academic journal, OBS,...
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June 23, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Thomas Kent
The Online News Association (ONA) will soon launch its “Build Your Own Ethics Code” project, designed to help news organisations, startups and individual journalists create codes of ethics that reflect their own journalistic...
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June 17, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by Valerio Bassan
Technology is pivotal in newspapers’ challenge to sustainability. The following is a list of features I’d like to see every digital newspaper experiment with. You will find neither absolute truths in this post, nor revolutionary...
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