June 16, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by David Levy
This year’s Reuters Institute Digital News Report is based on research conducted in 12 countries, surveying over 23,000 people. Key findings include a sharp increase in the use of social media platforms to reach audiences, a surge in the...
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June 10, 2015 •
Digital News, Short stories •
by Kim Wilson
Allison Rockey is nothing if not game. Within the first minute of her presentation to a room full of experienced English journalists she admitted she a) wasn’t a journalist and b) had been in digital media about a year. And if that...
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May 27, 2015 •
Digital News, Latest stories •
by Philip Di Salvo
“Using trans-media techniques to immerse readers in journalistic stories with their virtual embodied selves”: in a sentence, this is immersive journalism, according to James Pallot, co-founder of Emblematic Group, a multimedia company...
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May 20, 2015 •
Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Wolfgang Blau
While I love checking out the production gear of ‘mobile journalists’, I wish the words ‘mobile journalism’ would primarily refer to journalism that is being read/viewed on mobile devices, instead of referring to...
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May 13, 2015 •
Digital News, Research •
by EJO
Data are now abundant, and governments, companies, media, and organisations are constantly seeking to reap the benefits of these data – whether to identify internal issues and consider potential solutions, to improve transparency, or to...
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May 13, 2015 •
Photography and Video, Short stories •
by Sandra Stefanikova
Photojournalism is a threatened profession, according to new research. Over the last two decades digitalisation has led to the most fundamental changes since the invention of photography. New technology has transformed the way pictures are...
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April 27, 2015 •
Digital News, Latest stories •
by Philip Di Salvo
Even a major newspaper such as The Guardian has to struggle with the challenges of digital transformation, according to Aron Pilhofer, the newspaper’s recently-appointed Executive Editor of Digital. It may be 200 years old, but...
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April 14, 2015 •
Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
With massive staff and content cuts at newspapers worldwide, it would be easy to assume that investigative journalism is on the decline. It is one of the most time-consuming and expensive ways of reporting. Yet a number of free online...
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April 10, 2015 •
Business Models, Recent •
by Valerio Bassan
What is BuzzFeed? A newspaper for millennials, a social media, a marketing company, a lab experimenting on virality? The website started by Jonah Peretti is all of this, and it could become something else in the future. Numbers, after all,...
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