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April 11, 2018 •
Business Models, Digital News, Media Economics, Recent, Technology •
by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
Platform companies increasingly run much of the infrastructure of free expression and have a lasting impact on the news business. Rasmus Kleis Nielsen’s inaugural lecture analyses the power of platforms and tracks the challenges that lie...
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March 13, 2018 •
Media and Politics, Recent, Specialist Journalism, Technology •
by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
In many countries over the past few years, the political process – and social cohesion – have been threatened by various forms of disinformation, sometimes misleadingly and inadequately called “fake news”. Politically-motivated and...
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March 8, 2018 •
Digital News, Recent, Research, Specialist Journalism, Technology •
by Caroline Lees
Journalists and computer scientists are working to develop automated fact-checking (AFC) to enable large-scale responses to online misinformation, according to a new Factsheet by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ)....
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February 27, 2018 •
Specialist Journalism, Technology •
by Frantisek Gela
It’s a standard news feature on Czech regional TV news: A man enters his office, sits down and opens a notebook. In the next scene, the same man stands in front of a little chapel on a hill, looking at its centrepiece, a window mosaic...
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February 2, 2018 •
Digital News, Newsroom Management, Recent, Specialist Journalism, Technology •
by Bettina Figl
The media industry has been disrupted. Falling advertising revenues make many publishers anxiously eye their balance sheets. Especially small outlets are struggling. As a consequence, many of them are hesitant to invest in data journalism,...
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January 4, 2018 •
Specialist Journalism, Technology •
by Corinne Podger
Smartphones have been used by journalists for nearly ten years, to create content for radio, online and social platforms and – as the cameras and associated apps have improved – for TV. As mobile journalism becomes more...
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December 18, 2017 •
Digital News, Media Economics, Recent, Technology •
by Nicolas Becquet
Are French media companies addicted to Facebook? Last month, in an article for EJO, journalist Nicolas Becquet described how Facebook is paying French media organisations to produce original video content for Facebook news feeds. In some...
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December 14, 2017 •
Business Models, Newsroom Management, Technology •
by Alexandra Borchardt
With business models under pressure and competition for audience and advertising dollars increasing, media organisations inevitably search for innovative new ways to attract audiences, tell stories or earn revenue. Yet newsrooms often rush...
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