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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December 10, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by Caroline Lees
Data has become essential to newsrooms. It is used to inform how audiences access news, at what time and for how long. Journalists and editors can use data to learn everything from which stories consumers share, to their political...
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December 8, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Recent •
by Halyna Budivska
Media in Ukraine has become a pawn in the game between different political forces, a new study concludes. And audiences have noticed: recent months have witnessed a sharp decline of public trust in the media. This crisis is only likely...
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November 9, 2015 •
Recent, Research •
by EJO
Western European newspapers became significantly more sympathetic towards migrants and refugees immediately after photographs of a drowned boy on a Turkish beach were published at the beginning of September, but within one week most had...
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October 16, 2015 •
Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Pauliina Siniauer
I have always loved food – and writing. I spent last year researching food journalism and this month I started teaching it – at Europe’s first food journalism course, at the Haaga Helia University of Applied Sciences,...
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October 9, 2015 •
Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Yael de Haan, Gerard Smit, Renée van der Nat
When the London newsroom of the Guardian was reorganised recently, the ‘visuals desk’, producing infographics and data projects, became a key part of its digital operation, together with the ‘news desk’, ‘live...
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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 23, 2015 •
Media Economics, Recent •
by Alice Antheaume
Attracting a young audience is rapidly becoming a media obsession. In the United States, NBC Universal (NBCU) recently invested $200M in Vox Media and the same amount in Buzzfeed, which has an audience mainly composed of 18 to 34 years...
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September 9, 2015 •
Recent, Research •
by Scott. R Maier
Mother Teresa understood compassion fatigue when she proclaimed, “If I look at the mass, I will never act. If I look at one, I will.” What Mother Teresa knew from personal experience has been documented by behavioral research showing...
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