June 10, 2015 •
Digital News, Short stories •
by Kim Wilson
Allison Rockey is nothing if not game. Within the first minute of her presentation to a room full of experienced English journalists she admitted she a) wasn’t a journalist and b) had been in digital media about a year. And if that...
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June 5, 2015 •
Digital News, Latest stories •
by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Local journalism is not a sexy topic. But it is an important topic, and one that deserves more attention in discussions around the future of journalism. Most of our attention has been on national and international news. But in fact, most...
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May 27, 2015 •
Digital News, Latest stories •
by Philip Di Salvo
“Using trans-media techniques to immerse readers in journalistic stories with their virtual embodied selves”: in a sentence, this is immersive journalism, according to James Pallot, co-founder of Emblematic Group, a multimedia company...
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May 20, 2015 •
Digital News, Latest stories •
by Thomas Schmidt
Hyperbole is never far away when Facebook introduces innovations. Typically it involves some talk about saving the planet, creating the future or some iteration of “this will forever change the way how we read/write/communicate.” Not...
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May 13, 2015 •
Digital News, Research •
by EJO
Data are now abundant, and governments, companies, media, and organisations are constantly seeking to reap the benefits of these data – whether to identify internal issues and consider potential solutions, to improve transparency, or to...
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April 27, 2015 •
Digital News, Latest stories •
by Philip Di Salvo
Even a major newspaper such as The Guardian has to struggle with the challenges of digital transformation, according to Aron Pilhofer, the newspaper’s recently-appointed Executive Editor of Digital. It may be 200 years old, but...
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April 9, 2015 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Caroline Lees
The BBC has used publicly available data to create a tool to explain a new government social care policy in the United Kingdom. Aimed at the over-65s and their carers, the care calculator, took one year to build but has so far attracted...
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April 3, 2015 •
Digital News, Research •
by Jairo Mejia
News agencies can and should respond to the new media and technological environment, according to new research. In ‘Reinventing the wire: how to prepare for constant disruptions’, Jairo Mejia, a Washington correspondent for the...
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April 1, 2015 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Caroline Lees
Larry Birnbaum likes to tell stories from data. “It is clear that there is a lot of data and a lot of stories in that data, but it is not easy to find them,” he told delegates at INMA’s Big Data for Media conference at Google London...
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