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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April 6, 2015 •
Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Pauliina Siniauer
We have come a long way from the days when writing about food consisted of publishing nice recipes in women’s magazines. Now publications proclaiming the newest food trends fill newsagents around the world and proliferate online. Yet...
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April 1, 2015 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Caroline Lees
Larry Birnbaum likes to tell stories from data. “It is clear that there is a lot of data and a lot of stories in that data, but it is not easy to find them,” he told delegates at INMA’s Big Data for Media conference at Google London...
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March 29, 2015 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Caroline Lees
he EJO has updated its English website. After ten years, we wanted a new look. The new website is more flexible and we hope it will enable us to publish an even wider range of news, research and analysis about media in Europe, the United...
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February 26, 2015 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
ResearchGate, a social networking site for scientists and researchers, dubbed ‘Facebook for Science’, has launched a new social reader – the RG Format – which it claims will help academics manage their work and...
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February 18, 2015 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Rachel Stern
The old adage: “If it bleeds, it leads” is still embraced by many large news outlets, with stories of war, disease and scandals dominating headlines. Yet the public still has a thirst for positive news, according to Charlie Beckett, a...
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February 9, 2015 •
Digital News, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Alexandre Léchenet
Swiss Leaks’ investigation into secret HSBC banking files is the latest example in a growing list of successful cross-border journalistic collaborations. The HSBC files were obtained by an international group of news outlets, including...
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