January 14, 2014 •
Digital News, Research •
by Philip Di Salvo
Recently, Bill Keller, former executive editor of the New York Times, and Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer/blogger/journalist who broke the Snowden NSA story discussed opinions on the ethics and methods of journalism. The recent debate on a...
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January 9, 2014 •
Digital News •
by Evgeniya Boklage
How do professional journalists use social media? With enthusiasm, caution or skepticism? Digital Journalism, the newly-launched journal of Taylor & Francis Group which focuses on the transformation of journalism in age of digital...
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January 8, 2014 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by Philip Di Salvo
The New York Times has redesigned its website to make it both easier to read, and easier for advertisers to place branded content. The changes, which come into play on 8 January 2014 and affect both desktop and mobile versions of the site,...
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December 3, 2013 •
Digital News, Press Freedom •
by Evgeniya Boklage
The recent issue of New Eastern Europe, a news journal with the focus on Central and Eastern European affairs, has a special section on Digital Eastern Europe. In it, the group of authors look at the internet and surrounding technologies...
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December 2, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Thomas Schmidt
A new study by C. W. Anderson looks at the practices of news aggregators, problematizes the “originality” of original content and calls for “networks of journalistic expertise”. The research suggests that aggregators and...
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October 8, 2013 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Evgeniya Boklage
Can Twitter win elections? And if so, how? There is little doubt that social media is changing the way journalists and politicians communicate with each other and with voters during election campaigns but the implications and consequences...
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September 26, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Philip Di Salvo
People in Mozambique will vote this November in the country’s first ever citizen journalist led election. A Czech technology company, which creates open source software to help journalists, has teamed up with Mozambique’s main...
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September 18, 2013 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Saila Kiuttu
Storytelling is a constantly evolving art. Tablets have the potential to take it to a new level, but newspapers and broadcasters have not yet found the best ways to present their stories on tablets. Many still think that cutting and...
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September 5, 2013 •
Digital News, Media Economics •
by Pier Luca Santoro
Newsgames and editorial games are interactive videogames that tell the news through interactive graphics that a reader manipulates to create different scenarios. The games are perfect for newspapers. They engage readers, create a sense of...
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