November 8, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Ido Liven
Journalists are getting frustrated with trying to persuade editors to let them cover stories they feel passionately about. Journalist Ido Liven describes a new, crowdsourced project to cover this month’s UN climate summit in Warsaw....
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November 6, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Thomas Schmidt
The debate was civil but the tone was sharp. When Bill Keller, the former executive editor of the New York Times, and Glenn Greenwald, the lawyer/blogger/journalist who broke the Snowden NSA story, recently engaged in a vigorous debate...
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October 29, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Evgeniya Boklage
Refresh, refocus and move forward. That’s how the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) at the University of Missouri recently invited journalists and researchers to think about the future of journalism. On the agenda were...
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October 21, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Miruna Munteanu
When you have to rely on foreign press to learn about something happening in your country, national media is in deep trouble. That’s precisely what happened last month, when thousands of Romanians hit the streets to protest against the...
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October 8, 2013 •
Digital News, Specialist Journalism •
by Evgeniya Boklage
Can Twitter win elections? And if so, how? There is little doubt that social media is changing the way journalists and politicians communicate with each other and with voters during election campaigns but the implications and consequences...
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September 27, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Meera Selva
On a crisp autumn day a group of academics gathered in Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz to discuss what they could do to protect the future of journalism. Potsdamer Platz was one of Europe’s greatest meeting places and it seemed a fitting...
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September 24, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Natascha Fioretti
Are journalists too busy going to war against each other, when they should be battling censorship and authoritarianism? This is the question posed by New York Times reporter David Carr, as he discusses the way different news organisations...
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September 18, 2013 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality, Specialist Journalism •
by Saila Kiuttu
Storytelling is a constantly evolving art. Tablets have the potential to take it to a new level, but newspapers and broadcasters have not yet found the best ways to present their stories on tablets. Many still think that cutting and...
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August 19, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Meera Selva
It’s clear by now that technology is both saving and destroying journalism. The Internet, tablets, smart phones have decimated the print media’s advertising-dependent business models but had also helped journalists reach new...
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