September 30, 2016 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Alice Antheaume
“Someone close to”, “an intimate”, “a friend”, “a confidante”, “a former minister”. A recent political article in Liberation, France, contained no fewer than 11 anonymous sources in 1340 words. The day after it was...
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September 14, 2016 •
Ethics and Quality, Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Anna Andrievskaya
Public interest in popular science journalism is growing in Russia. New platforms, blogs and an online television channel, aiming to make complex scientific subjects more accessible, have been launched to meet the demand. One site, started...
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August 23, 2016 •
Ethics and Quality, Newsroom Management •
by Ville Seuri
Editors are often so occupied with running the day-to-day news operation they have little time to concentrate on what their organisations should become. Yet news organisations must innovate to stay relevant to their audiences. I asked...
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July 12, 2016 •
Business Models, Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Vas Panagiotopoulos
On a late June morning in a hotel in central Athens, the award-winning journalist Yavuz Baydar is discussing the erosion of press freedom in Turkey. “The Panama Papers were completely ignored,” he shrugs. In the audience, there are...
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July 4, 2016 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by EJO
The network of the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) is expanding into the Arab world. Together with the Media Development Centre (MDC) in Tunisia, the EJO has created an Arabic Journalism Observatory (AJO – www.ajo-ar.org). With a...
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June 8, 2016 •
Ethics and Quality, Latest stories, Media and Politics •
by Martina Topinkova
An increasing reliance on visual images in the digital age is turning news into entertainment, warns Matteo Stocchetti, Adjunct Professor at Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Finland. Stocchetti argues that images tap viewers’...
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June 3, 2016 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Nadia Bellardi
Over the last year, refugees struggling to reach European beaches have been newsworthy. They are often met by reporters and photographers who crowd around survivors, taking pictures and quotes. Yet the media interest is fleeting. After...
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May 19, 2016 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by José Moreno
Can an algorithm be an editor? Or can an editor be an algorithm? These questions have become more timely since the launch of Facebook’s Instant Articles last year. Publishers now hand content to Facebook and the platform’s...
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April 22, 2016 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Sara Bellicini
A news story about a snow storm in Washington State won The New York Times 2013 Pulitzer Prize, and led to an avalanche of so-called literary reportage. Snow Fall was hailed as an innovative style of journalism, combining as it did...
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