September 12, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Newsroom Management •
by Caroline Lees and Hannah Anson
National newspapers in the UK are mostly written by male journalists, even though women make up nearly half of the profession. The majority of news, business and comment articles are written by men and there are significantly more...
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May 16, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Latest stories, Newsroom Management •
by Thomas Schmidt
Imagine you’re a journalist in 2027. You get in your self-driving car and while your personal virtual assistant reads you the headlines, the car’s sensors detect a deterioration in air quality. A quick statistical analysis...
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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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April 26, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Newsroom Management •
by Robert G. Picard
The risks taken by journalists attempting to report dangerous conflicts are clear. Yet, despite evidence that journalists are increasingly being targeted by kidnappers, many are still unprepared for the threat. Reporters and news...
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April 13, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Newsroom Management •
by Richard Sambrook
In the wake of terror attacks in Paris and Brussels, it is increasingly recognised that terrorism can affect news organisations close to home as well as in the field and that newsrooms should prepare to cover terrorist incidents. Most news...
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March 21, 2016 •
Newsroom Management, Research •
by Halyna Budivska
Are journalists happy in their work? A study in Switzerland found that journalists who create the ‘product’ are less happy than the marketing people and publishers who sell it. Media professionals who work at a distance from the...
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December 15, 2015 •
Newsroom Management, Recent •
by Caroline Lees
Journalists can become very emotional about metrics, according to new research into the impact of data on the newsroom. Analytics can cause even the most hardened reporters to crack under the pressure of knowing, in real time, how many...
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October 17, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Newsroom Management •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
A new survey of media managers in Austria offers some unexpected insights into how different parts of media organisations think. For the first time, Andy Kaltenbrunner, Matthias Karmasin und Daniela Kraus (Medienhaus Wien) have surveyed...
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October 2, 2013 •
Media Economics, Newsroom Management •
by Yasmin Schulten-Jaspers
The German media is struggling, but the death of German’s second largest news agency dapd, which ceased operating on April 11 2013, raises a whole new set of questions about the future of news. Are news agencies still needed? Can their...
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