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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February 6, 2015 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Ralf Spiller and Stefan Weinacht
The first national study of data journalism in Germany reveals that the sector is still small, but has potential. The qualitative study found that data journalists typically consider themselves to be society’s watchdogs. They usually...
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January 13, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Specialist Journalism •
by Thomas Schmidt
The New York Times and other media outlets in the United States were slammed by readers and bloggers after not reprinting controversial cartoons of Charlie Hebdo in the aftermath of the terrorist attack last week. One criticism so incensed...
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January 9, 2015 •
Media and Politics, Specialist Journalism •
by Caroline Lees
When Gergő Sáling was abruptly dismissed from his job as editor-in-chief of Hungarian news portal, Origo.hu, last June, at least half of Origo’s newsroom resigned in protest. Many claimed Saling had been sacked for refusing to stop an...
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