June 13, 2014 •
Digital News •
by David Levy
The third annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report shows that as the online news environment grows ever more crowded, journalists play an important role in driving traffic to news brands and in encouraging people to pay for them. The...
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June 13, 2014 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Robert Picard, director of research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford is scathing about the role and function of journalism schools. Speaking at Ryerson University in Toronto, Picard said that in an environment...
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November 21, 2013 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl and Meera Selva
Ambitious, original, labour intensive journalism costs money, but is worth little on the open market. As behavioural economist Dan Ariely argues, most of us tend to behave irrationally if we can get something that appears to be free. We...
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November 19, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Meera Selva
Why do countries feel the need to own a news channel? To inform their citizens about the world, or to inform the world about their citizens? A seminar organized by the BBC World Service, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism...
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November 11, 2013 •
Media and Politics •
by James T. Hamilton
Transparency policies in the US and UK often fail to provide reporters with information that would help voters hold government accountable. Government open data policies are more often focused on providing information that helps firms...
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September 27, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Meera Selva
On a crisp autumn day a group of academics gathered in Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz to discuss what they could do to protect the future of journalism. Potsdamer Platz was one of Europe’s greatest meeting places and it seemed a fitting...
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September 10, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
With their long academic traditions, university-based journalism fellowship programmes look like relics from the past, but they are in fact needed now more than ever. The Nieman Fellowships at Harvard University and the Reuters...
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September 8, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Meera Selva
Mark Thompson, President and CEO of the New York Times, said the newspaper industry could take lessons from Hollywood in how to generate several sources of revenue from one product. In his first major speech since taking up his post at the...
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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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