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 3, 2015 •
Digital News, Research •
by Jairo Mejia
News agencies can and should respond to the new media and technological environment, according to new research. In ‘Reinventing the wire: how to prepare for constant disruptions’, Jairo Mejia, a Washington correspondent for the...
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March 9, 2015 •
Digital News, Media and Politics •
by Philip Di Salvo
An online platform that enables citizens and journalists to send automated freedom of information requests to public bodies in Italy has been launched by Italian non-governmental organisation, Diritto di Sapere (Right to Know). The...
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March 3, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Short stories •
by Roman Hajek
Most MPs in the Czech Republic believe the media undermines trust in politics and almost half believe the media has a negative impact upon democracy. Politicians also think that many journalists are more interested in expressing their own...
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February 11, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Nicholas Diakopoulos
Automated Insights, a American technology company, recently announced that it is producing and publishing 3,000 earnings report articles per quarter for the Associated Press, all automatically generated from data. Narrative Science,...
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February 6, 2015 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Ralf Spiller and Stefan Weinacht
The first national study of data journalism in Germany reveals that the sector is still small, but has potential. The qualitative study found that data journalists typically consider themselves to be society’s watchdogs. They usually...
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January 21, 2015 •
Digital News, Research •
by Thomas Schmidt
The continuing transformation of journalism not only affects journalists, technologists and media managers. It also presents a challenge for journalism scholars: How can theory keep up with practices that are changing so fast and so...
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January 19, 2015 •
Digital News •
by Alice Antheaume
Twelve dead in a newsroom, many injured people. Most of them were working for Charlie Hebdo, a Paris-based satirical magazine. They were writing and drawing the news to be published. And they found death during the first editorial...
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January 16, 2015 •
Business Models, Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
So many media figures have lost their jobs recently that it seems to be the exception, rather than the rule, when a top journalist, such as Alan Rusbridger, Guardian newspaper editor-in-chief for 20 years, resigns on his own terms. These...
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