March 31, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by Caroline Lees
Helena Bengtsson, Editor of Digital Projects at the Guardian newspaper, does not like the term, Big Data. “I don’t talk about Big Data,” she told the audience at the Big Data for Media Conference at Google London last week....
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March 9, 2015 •
Digital News, Media and Politics •
by Philip Di Salvo
An online platform that enables citizens and journalists to send automated freedom of information requests to public bodies in Italy has been launched by Italian non-governmental organisation, Diritto di Sapere (Right to Know). The...
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February 9, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Alexandre Léchenet
Swiss Leaks’ investigation into secret HSBC banking files is the latest example in a growing list of successful cross-border journalistic collaborations. The HSBC files were obtained by an international group of news outlets, including...
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February 6, 2015 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Ralf Spiller and Stefan Weinacht
The first national study of data journalism in Germany reveals that the sector is still small, but has potential. The qualitative study found that data journalists typically consider themselves to be society’s watchdogs. They usually...
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January 27, 2015 •
Digital News •
by Rachel Stern
Berlin has become a mecca for rebellious technophiles, in a country already sensitive about data security and protection. Some of Edward Snowden’s biggest allies — Citizenfour filmmaker Laura Poitras, Internet activist Jacob...
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January 21, 2015 •
Digital News, Research •
by Thomas Schmidt
The continuing transformation of journalism not only affects journalists, technologists and media managers. It also presents a challenge for journalism scholars: How can theory keep up with practices that are changing so fast and so...
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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 6, 2015 •
Digital News, Research •
by Rachel Stern
An estimated 11 million European Union citizens live in a different EU country from which they were born. Generation E, the first cross-border data journalism project on European youth migration, aims to tell, and catalogue some of their...
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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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