May 19, 2015 •
Latest stories, Media Economics •
by Mah-Rukh Ali
At a time when TV channels are experiencing a decline in ratings, newspapers are being told they belong to the past, and webpages are struggling to make money from online news, Vice News seems to have broken the code. While many media...
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May 12, 2015 •
Research, Short stories •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
An alarm signal is sounding from Italy. Media researchers there have analysed how misinformation and conspiracy theories spread via social networks, such as Facebook, much faster than news from more reliable sources. A team of researchers,...
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April 22, 2015 •
Recent, Research, Specialist Journalism •
by Roman Hájek and Sandra Štefaniková
The public increasingly depend on citizen journalists to witness and record events objectively, and to hold the mainstream media to account for honesty and authenticity, according to Stuart Allan, Professor of Journalism and...
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April 10, 2015 •
Business Models, Recent •
by Valerio Bassan
What is BuzzFeed? A newspaper for millennials, a social media, a marketing company, a lab experimenting on virality? The website started by Jonah Peretti is all of this, and it could become something else in the future. Numbers, after all,...
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February 26, 2015 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
ResearchGate, a social networking site for scientists and researchers, dubbed ‘Facebook for Science’, has launched a new social reader – the RG Format – which it claims will help academics manage their work and...
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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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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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January 2, 2015 •
Digital News, Media and Politics •
by Caroline Lees
In 2015 journalism will continue to be shaped by digital technology. Virtual reality could soon enable users to wear their news, or sense it via a headset. Simple news stories will be written by robots and curated by algorithm. Digital...
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