September 11, 2018 •
Comment, Newsroom Management, Recent, Specialist Journalism, Technology •
by Alexandra Borchardt
Artificial Intelligence can do a lot to improve life in the newsroom, but journalism is exactly about the type of choices computers are unable to make, argues Alexandra Borchardt....
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December 10, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by Caroline Lees
Data has become essential to newsrooms. It is used to inform how audiences access news, at what time and for how long. Journalists and editors can use data to learn everything from which stories consumers share, to their political...
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October 26, 2015 •
Latest stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Ian Hargreaves
The UK’s hyperlocal (community) journalism scene has long provoked strikingly contending judgments. Doubters see it as amateurish, fragile and of little relevance to ‘real’ journalism. Supporters believe it has already built the base...
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June 23, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Thomas Kent
The Online News Association (ONA) will soon launch its “Build Your Own Ethics Code” project, designed to help news organisations, startups and individual journalists create codes of ethics that reflect their own journalistic...
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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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April 11, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Helena Hamann
The German media overestimate the impact of Twitter and downplay the use of other social media networks, according to new research published by the Department of Communication at the University of Mainz, Germany. Researchers Birgit Stark,...
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March 18, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Margaryta Chornokondratenko
Media experts urge journalists to pay attention to the social network Pinterest. While media outlets in many countries are still discovering the opportunities of visual communication through the social media, their U.S. counterparts have...
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January 30, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Andreas Sträter
In disciplines like politics, economics, and consumerism as well as in journalism, the issue of transparency has become an important value. Globalization, the Internet, and the first generation of digital natives are working as engines in...
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