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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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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August 26, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent •
by Jairo Mejia
As a foreign correspondent for a large news agency, I know how important it is to improve the flow of meaningful news and information to clients’ newsrooms. That task is increasingly challenging as social media (especially Twitter)...
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August 24, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Recent •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
The role played by social media in the 2011 Arab Spring may have been overestimated by Western observers, but a new report, Media Use in the Middle East, 2015, reveals that platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are changing the...
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August 6, 2015 •
Public Relations, Recent •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Foul language has become more and more socially acceptable, even in puritan America. Dean Baquet, the Executive Editor of the New York Times, recently called a journalism professor, who had criticised him for his newsroom’s coverage of...
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