February 27, 2018 •
Specialist Journalism, Technology •
by Frantisek Gela
It’s a standard news feature on Czech regional TV news: A man enters his office, sits down and opens a notebook. In the next scene, the same man stands in front of a little chapel on a hill, looking at its centrepiece, a window mosaic...
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January 4, 2018 •
Specialist Journalism, Technology •
by Corinne Podger
Smartphones have been used by journalists for nearly ten years, to create content for radio, online and social platforms and – as the cameras and associated apps have improved – for TV. As mobile journalism becomes more...
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June 30, 2017 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality, Latest stories •
by Thomas Schmidt
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in newsrooms has a lot of potential for smarter journalism. Yet, as newsrooms increasingly experiment with new technologies, such as machine learning and natural language processing, they also run into...
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June 19, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Short stories •
by Andreas Neukam and Max Hempel
American news channels are adopting the characteristics of reality TV shows, with speculation and emotion replacing fact, according to Robert Byrd, assistant professor of journalism at the University of Memphis. In a seminar, Enemy of...
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January 10, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent •
by Caroline Lees
Journalists must work harder in 2017 to report fairly and accurately and to protect sources, according to a new report by the Ethical Journalism Network (EJN), published today. Ethics in the News, Challenges for Journalism in the...
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December 2, 2016 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent •
by Suzanne Franks
‘Aways use the word ‘Africa’ or ‘Darkness’ or ‘Safari’ in your title.’ These are the opening words of a famous satirical essay by the the Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina ‘How not to Write about Africa.’ It was...
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October 17, 2016 •
Digital News, Research, Research •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Of all the former socialist countries in Europe, Albania was the most encapsulated – inaccessible not only from the West, but also from Yugoslavia and from the former Soviet Union’s satellites. Even today, the small country with its...
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March 11, 2016 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Scott. R Maier
Amid the onslaught of digital news, information and gossip, what online audiences value most may be surprising: long stories, in-depth coverage, and journalistic inquiry that offers fresh perspectives. That’s the conclusion of a recent...
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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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