October 6, 2015 •
Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by EJO
The work practices of the professional photojournalist are undergoing rapid changes in the digital era. New technologies, platforms and methods of visual storytelling are exerting a range of pressures and influences that require...
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October 5, 2015 •
Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Suzanne Franks
Sports coverage is booming. News about sport used to be confined to a couple of pages at the back of the newspaper, but today it occupies vast areas of print, online and broadcast attention. Sportsmen and women are better known and better...
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September 9, 2015 •
Recent, Research •
by Scott. R Maier
Mother Teresa understood compassion fatigue when she proclaimed, “If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at one, I will.” What Mother Teresa knew from personal experience has been documented by behavioral research showing...
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August 21, 2015 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Increasing numbers of consumers are using social media platforms to access news according to recent research. One study, by the Pew Research Centre, found that in 2015 the majority (63%) of Facebook and Twitter users sourced news via those...
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August 20, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Short stories •
by Halyna Budivska
Social media has been credited with playing a pivotal role during recent mass protests, such as EuroMaidan in Ukraine, the Arab Spring, and the unrest in Ferguson in the United States. But despite the apparent evidence of a link between...
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August 13, 2015 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by José Moreno
Journalist Paul Mason recently published a controversial column in The Guardian arguing that we are entering a “post-capitalist” society, prefigured in the numerous examples of the so-called “sharing economy” that seem to be...
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August 5, 2015 •
Research, Short stories •
by Robert G. Picard
News coverage of the Euro Crisis across Europe has tended to portray European institutions as important, but ineffectual, in dealing with the crisis and to take national rather than a European approach to the issues, according to a study...
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July 27, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by Caroline Lees
The most successful digital news organisations share seven key elements, new research reveals. Clear vision; clear organisational strategy; a coherent business model; strong leadership; digital talent; a pro-digital culture and an ability...
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July 17, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Rrapo Zguri
A bill aimed at regulating comments online has been described as an attack on freedom of expression in Albania. Under the proposed new law online media administrators who publish, or allow the publication of comments “that affect the...
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