August 21, 2015 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Increasing numbers of consumers are using social media platforms to access news according to recent research. One study, by the Pew Research Centre, found that in 2015 the majority (63%) of Facebook and Twitter users sourced news via those...
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August 20, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Short stories •
by Halyna Budivska
Social media has been credited with playing a pivotal role during recent mass protests, such as EuroMaidan in Ukraine, the Arab Spring, and the unrest in Ferguson in the United States. But despite the apparent evidence of a link between...
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August 13, 2015 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by José Moreno
Journalist Paul Mason recently published a controversial column in The Guardian arguing that we are entering a “post-capitalist” society, prefigured in the numerous examples of the so-called “sharing economy” that seem to be...
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August 6, 2015 •
Public Relations, Recent •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Foul language has become more and more socially acceptable, even in puritan America. Dean Baquet, the Executive Editor of the New York Times, recently called a journalism professor, who had criticised him for his newsroom’s coverage of...
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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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June 16, 2015 •
Digital News, Short stories •
by Robert G. Picard
Smartphones and tablets are increasing consumption of news on digital platforms and more customers are accessing digital news throughout the day, according to the 2015 Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute, University of Oxford,...
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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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May 20, 2015 •
Digital News, Latest stories •
by Thomas Schmidt
Hyperbole is never far away when Facebook introduces innovations. Typically it involves some talk about saving the planet, creating the future or some iteration of “this will forever change the way how we read/write/communicate.” Not...
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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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