October 5, 2015 •
Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Suzanne Franks
Sports coverage is booming. News about sport used to be confined to a couple of pages at the back of the newspaper, but today it occupies vast areas of print, online and broadcast attention. Sportsmen and women are better known and better...
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September 9, 2015 •
Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by EJO
The environmental NGO Greenpeace has announced it has hired a team of experienced journalists as part of a plan to make investigations one of its three key activities, together with raising public awareness and direct action. John Sauven,...
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June 12, 2015 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Thomas Schmidt
Faced with fierce attacks for a recent story, Seymour Hersh, one of America’s most legendary and revered journalists, recently addressed more than two hundred investigative reporters from around the United States to talk about his...
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June 4, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Specialist Journalism •
by Philip Di Salvo
“Herr Blatter. Have you ever taken a bribe?” This was a tense moment in the early relationship between Andrew Jennings, an investigative journalist, and FIFA officials. Jennings asked the question during Sepp Blatter’s...
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May 20, 2015 •
Short stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Wolfgang Blau
While I love checking out the production gear of ‘mobile journalists’, I wish the words ‘mobile journalism’ would primarily refer to journalism that is being read/viewed on mobile devices, instead of referring to...
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May 7, 2015 •
Latest stories, Specialist Journalism •
by Caroline Lees
News should inform, but a newspaper column should provoke, according to Thomas L Friedman, a New York Times op-ed columnist since 1995. A good column produces a reaction and even a death threat from a reader is a sign of success, he...
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April 22, 2015 •
Recent, Research, Specialist Journalism •
by Roman Hájek and Sandra Štefaniková
The public increasingly depend on citizen journalists to witness and record events objectively, and to hold the mainstream media to account for honesty and authenticity, according to Stuart Allan, Professor of Journalism and...
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April 14, 2015 •
Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
With massive staff and content cuts at newspapers worldwide, it would be easy to assume that investigative journalism is on the decline. It is one of the most time-consuming and expensive ways of reporting. Yet a number of free online...
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April 9, 2015 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Caroline Lees
The BBC has used publicly available data to create a tool to explain a new government social care policy in the United Kingdom. Aimed at the over-65s and their carers, the care calculator, took one year to build but has so far attracted...
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