November 28, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
Germany’s first non-profit, investigative website has been launched in Berlin and Essen, inspired by similar prominent sites in the United States, ProPublica, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and the Center for Public...
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November 19, 2014 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Roman Hajek
Journalists often claim that social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, have become important news sources, but have they? Researchers from Charles University in Prague studied Czech media to establish to what extent traditional...
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November 13, 2014 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
In the digital story “As the Children Wait”, journalists follow homeless boys, living on the streets of St. Louis, Senegal. Video footage, part of an in-depth multi-media presentation, captures the boys begging during the day and...
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November 12, 2014 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Michal Kus
Data journalism is being increasingly promoted and supported by media organizations and universities in Poland. Interactive data platforms have recently been launched by two of the country’s biggest newspaper groups, and academic courses...
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September 9, 2014 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kellie Riordan
Legacy media organisations must adapt to the internet age or they may lose their younger audiences. Accuracy and impartiality still matter, but traditional media must learn to adapt to the tone and ethos of the open web, by introducing...
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July 2, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Federico Guerrini
The debate on whether readers will pay for news must include discussions on just how they pay for news: through a one off subscription, or through something more fragmented. Paul Dinulescu, the founder of Niuzly, an online publishing...
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June 26, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Raluca Radu
European media managers are dedicating considerable time and energy discussing ways to reduce the dominance of Google and Facebook. In an open letter to Google, Mathias Döpfner, head of Europe’s largest newspaper publisher, said the...
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June 13, 2014 •
Digital News •
by David Levy
The third annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report shows that as the online news environment grows ever more crowded, journalists play an important role in driving traffic to news brands and in encouraging people to pay for them. The...
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June 2, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Robert G. Picard
The increasing consumption of news on digital platforms is forcing news organizations to rethink their news production cycles and staffing patterns. Most journalists, like other employees, prefer a normal pattern of life—going to work in...
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