December 31, 2023 •
Digital News, Media Economics, Recent, Research •
by Dr Merja Myllylahti
Merja Myllylahti examines the challenging relationship between big tech and news outlets and its impact on news distribution. ...
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July 1, 2021 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Anya Schiffrin
Columbia University’s Anya Schiffrin explores the impact of news media bargaining rules on big tech’s influence and power....
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September 6, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Anya Schiffrin
Fact-checking has come of age. It no longer just debunks false information, but puts pressure on the perpetrators to correct it....
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July 16, 2019 •
Digital News, Newsroom Management, Recent, Technology •
by Destiny Alvarez and Damian Radcliffe
Social media is swimming with journalists and non-journalists alike, but too often engagement between the two is scant. That’s the view of Mandy Jenkins, general manager for McClatchy’s local news initiative The Compass Experiment and...
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June 25, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Michal Kus
Facebook’s recent announcement that it had entered into a partnership with Agence France Presse (AFP) as its third-party fact-checker in Poland may have led some media-watchers to assume that there are as yet no reliable Polish...
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June 19, 2019 •
Digital News, Media Economics, Recent •
by EJO
This year’s Digital News Report focuses on themes that are of crucial importance for the future of journalism and the media: the impact of populism, the role played by the big tech platforms and their efforts to build public trust in...
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April 29, 2019 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality, Media Economics, Recent •
by Alexandra Borchardt
There’s a clear irony in engaging in a lively debate about the impact of big tech companies on journalism as part of a festival largely financed by Google and Facebook. The recent International Journalism Festival in Perugia offered more...
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April 17, 2019 •
Censorship, Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent, Technology •
by Philip Di Salvo
During the past decade, whistleblowing has come to the fore as an important lever for achieving change in today’s democratic societies. WikiLeaks, Snowden and the revelations about Cambridge Analytica have not only confirmed the key role...
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March 5, 2019 •
Censorship, Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Damian Radcliffe and Payton Bruni
Being a journalist in – or reporting on – the Middle East brings with it many challenges. One key issue, for journalists and news consumers alike, is the relative lack of media freedom, and freedom of expression, in the region....
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