September 11, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Susann Eberlein
An online network, aimed at helping journalists from all over the world to “find a story, find a colleague and find a couch” has been set up by three journalists in Berlin. Hostwriter aims to encourage collaboration between...
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September 9, 2014 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kellie Riordan
Legacy media organisations must adapt to the internet age or they may lose their younger audiences. Accuracy and impartiality still matter, but traditional media must learn to adapt to the tone and ethos of the open web, by introducing...
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September 4, 2014 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Tina Bettels
One of the main aims of the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) is to promote dialogue between media researchers and practitioners. On the occasion of the EJO’s 10th anniversary we will be presenting and discussing best practice...
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July 14, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Paulina Pacula
Journalists cannot operate unless they can deal with data, according to Nils Mulvad associate professor at The Danish School of Media and journalist. Mulvad, who also runs a data analysis company Kaas and Mulvad, said it has now become a...
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July 2, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Federico Guerrini
The debate on whether readers will pay for news must include discussions on just how they pay for news: through a one off subscription, or through something more fragmented. Paul Dinulescu, the founder of Niuzly, an online publishing...
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June 13, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Robert Picard, director of research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford is scathing about the role and function of journalism schools. Speaking at Ryerson University in Toronto, Picard said that in an environment...
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June 12, 2014 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Thomas Schmidt
When the US Supreme Court recently turned down an appeal from James Risen, a Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter for the New York Times, it effectively declined to settle a long-simmering debate about the legal consequences of reporting leaks....
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May 26, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Christian Fahrenbach
The Tow-Knight program in Entrepreneurial Journalism in New York is coming to an end. In the last three and a half months, we argued with people from Kickstarter and Contently about who exactly is going to finance journalism in the future....
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May 8, 2014 •
Business Models •
by Philip Di Salvo
The search for an online journalism business model which not only survives but also guarantees publishers a future on the web, demands re-thinking of existing online news-service models. The Scandinavian Schibsted Media Group has been...
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