May 26, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Christian Fahrenbach
The Tow-Knight program in Entrepreneurial Journalism in New York is coming to an end. In the last three and a half months, we argued with people from Kickstarter and Contently about who exactly is going to finance journalism in the future....
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May 22, 2014 •
Business Models, Digital News •
by Evgeniya Boklage
Commentators and scholars alike have dubbed 2013 “the year of the paywall” in the news industry. Many wonder whether it is going to resolve the deep crisis mostly manifested in diminishing advertisement revenues. Victor Pickard and...
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March 14, 2014 •
Digital News, Public Relations •
by Pierre C. Meier
A new player has arrived on Swiss online newscape, promising to shake up mobile news. The widely anticipated online news portal, Watson.ch went live on January 22 with an unusual launch strategy, after a year long gestation period. The...
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February 18, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Jenny Dean
This article has been amended. Details below. The Associated Press news agency has developed an open-source tool to help journalists with data mining journalism to assist in original and investigative reporting. Overview, a Web...
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February 17, 2014 •
Digital News, Research •
by Evgeniya Boklage
The phrase “We all are journalists now” sounds like a truism. The phenomenon of citizen journalism is widely understood and accepted as a legitimate part of the global media system. Yet, despite the blurring boundary between...
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February 12, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Philip Di Salvo
Digital journalists who mine user generated content now have a new tool available. The European Journalism Centre asked a team of respected media analysts including Anthony De Rosa (Circa), Mathew Ingram, Craig Silverman (Poynter) and...
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February 5, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Jenny Dean
Of young adult smartphone users, a gap exists between how users consume information and news—and the technologies that news organizations are utilizing to convey it. The author of this study argues that a combination of location-based...
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January 30, 2014 •
Digital News, Research •
by Jenny Dean
A study from Journalism Practice looks at how effective social media is in reaching audiences for news. It compares Facebook and Twitter and suggests that Twitter might just have the advantage. Researchers believe this is the case because...
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January 15, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Meera Selva
News will continue to go digital. People are accessing news on smart phones and tablets: journalists and advertisers will have to repackage their words and images to fit these new formats. Journalism.co.uk asked industry experts for their...
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