July 12, 2016 •
Business Models, Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Vas Panagiotopoulos
On a late June morning in a hotel in central Athens, the award-winning journalist Yavuz Baydar is discussing the erosion of press freedom in Turkey. “The Panama Papers were completely ignored,” he shrugs. In the audience, there are...
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April 22, 2016 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Sara Bellicini
A news story about a snow storm in Washington State won The New York Times 2013 Pulitzer Prize, and led to an avalanche of so-called literary reportage. Snow Fall was hailed as an innovative style of journalism, combining as it did...
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February 11, 2016 •
Research, Short stories •
by Charlie Beckett
How do you reach an audience to pay attention to your research or publications in a world where media power is shifting and the terms of communication trade are becoming more complicated and subjective? An old friend of mine who used to...
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November 9, 2015 •
Recent, Research •
by EJO
Western European newspapers became significantly more sympathetic towards migrants and refugees immediately after photographs of a drowned boy on a Turkish beach were published at the beginning of September, but within one week most had...
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October 9, 2015 •
Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Yael de Haan, Gerard Smit, Renée van der Nat
When the London newsroom of the Guardian was reorganised recently, the ‘visuals desk’, producing infographics and data projects, became a key part of its digital operation, together with the ‘news desk’, ‘live...
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September 30, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The preoccupation that we could be drowned by too many news and advertising messages, and that we are “over-newsed and under-informed” may be yesterday’s headache. The challenge for the future is to ensure that we will not...
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July 27, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by Caroline Lees
The most successful digital news organisations share seven key elements, new research reveals. Clear vision; clear organisational strategy; a coherent business model; strong leadership; digital talent; a pro-digital culture and an ability...
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June 4, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Specialist Journalism •
by Philip Di Salvo
“Herr Blatter. Have you ever taken a bribe?” This was a tense moment in the early relationship between Andrew Jennings, an investigative journalist, and FIFA officials. Jennings asked the question during Sepp Blatter’s...
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March 31, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by Caroline Lees
Helena Bengtsson, Editor of Digital Projects at the Guardian newspaper, does not like the term, Big Data. “I don’t talk about Big Data,” she told the audience at the Big Data for Media Conference at Google London last week....
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