April 11, 2016 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Filip Láb
A woman sits wounded and dazed, her shirt blown off. Another beside her, also injured, phones for help. It is minutes after two massive suicide bomb explosions at Brussels airport and the soon-to-be iconic image is taken by a Georgian...
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March 11, 2016 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Scott. R Maier
Amid the onslaught of digital news, information and gossip, what online audiences value most may be surprising: long stories, in-depth coverage, and journalistic inquiry that offers fresh perspectives. That’s the conclusion of a recent...
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March 3, 2016 •
Ethics and Quality, Research •
by Caroline Lees
Media in Britain – particularly broadcast media – is failing to represent, or relate to, minority audiences, according to new research. BBCs One and Two are perceived as the ‘whitest’ channels, with minority...
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December 1, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Short stories •
by Mark Blach-Ørsten
Credibility is frequently represented as both an ideal goal for journalism as a profession and as an integral part of the survival strategy of the news industry. Yet there exists no widely accepted way of measuring the concept. Our recent...
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November 5, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Short stories •
by Caroline Lindekamp
Journalism training is falling behind the reality of the profession, according to a new study on the future of journalism in Germany. The report, produced with the German Federation of Journalists (DJV), represents a warning to the media...
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October 27, 2015 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Michael Haller
Let me take you back to 3rd December 2013: Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, testifies before the House of Commons’ Home Affairs Committee. It was to become a tense 78-minute interrogation on his newspaper’s decision to...
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September 30, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The preoccupation that we could be drowned by too many news and advertising messages, and that we are “over-newsed and under-informed” may be yesterday’s headache. The challenge for the future is to ensure that we will not...
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September 28, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Charlie Beckett
I do not know of any industry that has been through such an existential crisis as journalism has in the last decade or so. I spent over 20 years working in news and current affairs before joining the LSE nine years ago where my research...
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September 7, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Recent •
by Thomas Kent
Virtual reality journalism is with us to stay, and will become even more realistic and immersive as technology improves. Already, virtual reality (VR) headsets and vivid sound tracks can put a viewer into stunning, 360-degree scenes of a...
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