February 11, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Nicholas Diakopoulos
Automated Insights, a American technology company, recently announced that it is producing and publishing 3,000 earnings report articles per quarter for the Associated Press, all automatically generated from data. Narrative Science,...
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February 9, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Alexandre Léchenet
Swiss Leaks’ investigation into secret HSBC banking files is the latest example in a growing list of successful cross-border journalistic collaborations. The HSBC files were obtained by an international group of news outlets, including...
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February 6, 2015 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Ralf Spiller and Stefan Weinacht
The first national study of data journalism in Germany reveals that the sector is still small, but has potential. The qualitative study found that data journalists typically consider themselves to be society’s watchdogs. They usually...
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February 4, 2015 •
Business Models, Ethics and Quality •
by Mark Blach-Ørsten
Denmark’s media will remember 2014 for two events. The country’s very own hacking scandal and a documentary about a tabloid newspaper that showed just how difficult the change from the ‘paper’ journalism business model to the...
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February 2, 2015 •
Media Economics, Research •
by Luis Palacio
More than 450 new media platforms, publishing everything from news and sports to technology and arts, have launched in Spain since the beginning of the economic crisis in 2008, but only a small proportion of them are making a profit,...
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January 21, 2015 •
Digital News, Research •
by Thomas Schmidt
The continuing transformation of journalism not only affects journalists, technologists and media managers. It also presents a challenge for journalism scholars: How can theory keep up with practices that are changing so fast and so...
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January 19, 2015 •
Digital News •
by Alice Antheaume
Twelve dead in a newsroom, many injured people. Most of them were working for Charlie Hebdo, a Paris-based satirical magazine. They were writing and drawing the news to be published. And they found death during the first editorial...
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January 16, 2015 •
Business Models, Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
So many media figures have lost their jobs recently that it seems to be the exception, rather than the rule, when a top journalist, such as Alan Rusbridger, Guardian newspaper editor-in-chief for 20 years, resigns on his own terms. These...
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January 2, 2015 •
Digital News, Media and Politics •
by Caroline Lees
In 2015 journalism will continue to be shaped by digital technology. Virtual reality could soon enable users to wear their news, or sense it via a headset. Simple news stories will be written by robots and curated by algorithm. Digital...
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