January 25, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Anda Rožukalne
Latvian media outlets experienced a tumultuous 2012, filled with financial instability, changes in ownership, and trends of concentration. Yet in the middle of the acrobatic marketplace – brave achievements in journalism and...
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January 16, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
A new contract between Instagram and its users will take effect Saturday (Jan. 19), and the far from smooth transition in shifting contracts has taken the photo sharing service to the courthouse. As lawyers, concerned users and service...
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September 27, 2012 •
Digital News •
by Tim Donnelly
*Article courtesy of the European Journalism Centre If we could get 20-somethings to spend as much time reading the news of the world as they do browsing for dates online, the world would be a much more informed place. There is something...
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August 28, 2012 •
Media and Politics •
by Michael Wise
New Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) report examines digital intermediaries and their effect on news plurality in contemporary media. “News Plurality in a Digital World,” authored by communication policy expert...
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July 24, 2012 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Philip Di Salvo
After George Clooney’s The Ides Of March, Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO drama The Newsroom places journalism in the limelight yet again. American screenwriter Sorkin has been known to incorporate media-related topics into his work,...
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August 4, 2011 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
It was like watching the movie from the day before yesterday. Suddenly, all the three of them were back: Leo Kirch, Silvio Berlusconi and Rupert Murdoch, the tycoons who influentially roughed up the media business in Europe during the 80s...
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April 11, 2011 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
Facebook expands its relationship with the news media. In an effort to boost the use of Facebook in newsrooms, Journalists on Facebook was unveiled last Thursday, launched as a resource to connect journalists with one another and with the...
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January 14, 2011 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
American cable television, with the exception of the Weather Channel, is stressful. Venturing into U.S. cable news on a regular basis requires a certain level of mental preparation, at the very least a moderate yoga regime and a happy...
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January 2, 2011 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
Pew research shows growing number of seniors dive into social networking. She bakes a mean gingerbread and started a fibromyalgia support group on Facebook: She is Granny 2.0. Seniors are typically paper-readers and six o’clock...
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