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July 28, 2016 •
Latest stories, Media and Politics, Research •
by EJO
Europe’s newspapers were overwhelmingly negative towards Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, according to a review of the press in 13 countries in the week after the referendum. Most articles presented the view that Brexit was...
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June 22, 2016 •
Latest stories, Media Economics, Specialist Journalism •
by Pauliina Siniauer
It happened again this morning, I saw it. I woke up, grabbed my phone, set the alarm off and started scrolling the Instagram stream – maybe it’s because it feels soothing to see some pretty pictures before reading the news – and...
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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 2, 2016 •
Digital News, Latest stories •
by Ian Burrell
With job cuts at Vice News, lay-offs at Mashable and a succession of legal actions threatening the very existence of Gawker Media, it has been a tough few weeks for native digital news companies. After a long period of growth, in which...
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May 26, 2016 •
Latest stories, Media and Politics •
by Abdelkrim Hizaoui
In the aftermath of the ‘Arab Spring’, two Maghreb countries are developing different styles of press regulation. In Tunisia, the outcome is likely to be a self-regulated Press Council, whilst in Morocco the project is implemented by...
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May 17, 2016 •
Digital News, Latest stories, Recent •
by Andreas Graefe and Mario Haim
Ever since the Associated Press started to fully automate the production of company earnings reports almost two years ago, algorithms that automatically write news stories from structured data have shaken up the news industry. This...
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May 9, 2016 •
Latest stories, Short stories •
by EJO
Most journalists in the United Kingdom believe they now have less time to research stories, but the majority are still willing to push boundaries to break important news, according to new research. The study shows that British journalists...
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February 19, 2016 •
Latest stories, Media and Politics •
by Raluca Radu
The Internet is not free or uncontrolled. Its infrastructure is owned by a combination of international mobile companies, politicians and businessmen, some of whom have criminal links, new research reveals. A number of companies...
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February 2, 2016 •
Latest stories, Media and Politics •
by Katharina Neumann & Philip Baugut
Refugee camps set alight across Europe, migrant children attacked by masked men in Stockholm, Anders Behring Breivik’s attack on a social democratic youth camp in Norway and a series of acts of Neo-Nazi terror in Germany – reporting...
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