February 12, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Philip Di Salvo
Digital journalists who mine user generated content now have a new tool available. The European Journalism Centre asked a team of respected media analysts including Anthony De Rosa (Circa), Mathew Ingram, Craig Silverman (Poynter) and...
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February 3, 2014 •
Press Freedom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
At a first glance, president Obama’s recent speech about the NSA seems to support arguments by Dan Gillmor, one of America’s most prominent Internet gurus. He believes that the fallout from the information leaked by Edward Snowden...
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January 30, 2014 •
Digital News, Research •
by Jenny Dean
A study from Journalism Practice looks at how effective social media is in reaching audiences for news. It compares Facebook and Twitter and suggests that Twitter might just have the advantage. Researchers believe this is the case because...
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January 21, 2014 •
Ethics and Quality, Research •
by Tina Bettels
A comparative study into the professional views of journalism students show that most of them are influenced by their country’s political history and by the views of their predecessors. Researchers working with Claudia Mellado...
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January 14, 2014 •
Digital News, Research •
by Philip Di Salvo
Recently, Bill Keller, former executive editor of the New York Times, and Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer/blogger/journalist who broke the Snowden NSA story discussed opinions on the ethics and methods of journalism. The recent debate on a...
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January 9, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Evgeniya Boklage
How do professional journalists use social media? With enthusiasm, caution or skepticism? Digital Journalism, the newly-launched journal of Taylor & Francis Group which focuses on the transformation of journalism in age of digital...
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December 30, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Helen Caple
Helen Caple, a social semiotician at the University of New South Wales, and Monika Bednarek, a linguist at the University of Sydney Australia, discuss a novel approach to the study of news values across both words and images, one that they...
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December 27, 2013 •
Photography and Video •
by Helen Caple
Having just spent a semester at the Reuters Institute, Oxford, thinking about the journalism profession, three ideas have dominated my thoughts: Could online picture galleries save the press photographer? Why did I write a book...
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December 17, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
Watergate forever changed American journalism. That’s how many American journalists, especially political reporters, remember the relentless, investigative reporting that brought down Richard Nixon. After Watergate (1972-1974) there was...
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