July 16, 2013 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Philip Di Salvo
The market for drones is expanding rapidly and will soon play an important role in the way journalism works, according to a new report. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International estimates that in the next ten years, the...
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May 6, 2012 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Philip Di Salvo
Originally created for military and intelligence purposes, flying drones are becoming an everyday reality thanks to recent commercial success. For roughly €300, customers can purchase the AR Drone 2.0, a quadricopter capable of shooting...
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February 16, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Mark Marku
The changing political system in Albania is tied to the evolution and transformation of the media industry. The establishment of political pluralism and a market economy in 1991 brought with it the collapse of the state’s monopoly in...
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January 27, 2012 •
Digital News •
by Fabio Forin
*Article courtesy of the European Journalism Centre Is immersive storytelling the next big step in conflict reporting? “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough,” the influential war photographer Robert Capa...
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November 2, 2011 •
Digital News •
by Philip Di Salvo
Picture a machine capable of synthesizing sentences and grammatical structures with sophisticated data sequences, writing entire articles simply by following data input. On paper it might sound rather dystopian – a particularly...
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May 26, 2010 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by Rukhshona Nazhmidinova
Before the newspaper industry actually makes it to the media graveyard, experts predict another medium (television) may face the Reaper as well. In his blog “Reflections of a Newsosaur,” Alan Mutter, a media and technology...
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April 12, 2010 •
Digital News, Newsroom Management •
by Kate Nacy
TimesCast captures newsroom missteps. Last month the New York Times launched TimesCast, a daily video produced during morning meetings in the newsroom. The mini program summarizes major stories and includes interviews with the staff,...
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December 31, 2009 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
A study conducted by Prof. Roger Bohn and Dr. James Short of the University of California at San Diego dispels the notion that visually stimulating forms of media are driving the death of the written word. Of the 100,500 words they consume...
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November 19, 2009 •
Newsroom Management •
by Kate Nacy
The Pew Internet and American Life Project examines social isolation and new technology. Lee Rainie, director of the project, set out to test the assumption that the Internet contributes to feelings of isolation. The Pew survey finds that...
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