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The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson on freelancers, Edward Snowden and the Arab Spring

Jon Lee Anderson is one of the world’s leading war correspondents. Currently working for The New Yorker, he has covered conflicts in Syria, Libya and Ireland over the course of his 30-year career. Anderson recently delivered an address to the School of Journalism at Paris’ Sciences Po university, in which he tackled issues ranging from the risks of freelance conflict reporting, to the murder of his friend James Foley, the perils of social media, and the role of Edward Snowden: “[He] is a spy, he’s not a journalist”.

How editors and journalists can produce better and fairer reporting on people with disability

Partnerships between advocacy groups and the mainstream media are a hallmark of the rise of Advocacy Journalism as a conduit for meaningful social change. And some of the most prominent collaborations seeking to facilitate self-representation for minorities have involved people with disability (PWD). However, as Shawn Burns reports, there’s still much work for editors and journalists to do in this area.

Case study: Australia’s ABC experiments with feeding youth audience social media-generated ‘news bites’

A new ABC project, Go Fact Yourself, aims to inform young Australians about current affairs via Instagram, Facebook and Twitter in a way that resonates with them, using casual language and vlog-style production.

Expo preview: Trends in production – selective investing

Looking at the printing and production side of the newspaper publishing industry this year, it is clear that several of the trends of the past year or two are still very much present.

Expo preview: Six things you need to consider when looking for a paywall solution

So you are heading to World Publishing Expo 2014 and your online department has asked you to look for the best paywall solution to enable your paid-content activities. In this article, author and WAN-IFRA Principal Associate Consultant Gregor Waller (pictured) says there is one factor to keep in mind above all else: Once you have chosen a solution, you are pretty well stuck with that technology; you cannot easily swap it for another one.

World Editors Forum commissioned by UNESCO to conduct study on the protection of journalists’ sources in the digital age

Is it possible to keep journalists’ sources confidential in the digital age? What laws exist globally to support journalists’ ethical obligation to protect their sources from unmasking? To whom do these laws apply? How are legislative protections being adapted to digital realities? And what are the potential consequences of this shifting landscape for acts of investigative journalism? These are some of the questions to be interrogated in a significant study being undertaken by the World Editors Forum for UNESCO, under a project funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).

Tracking consumers across platforms is key to mobile ad revenue

To grow their mobile business, publishers need beautiful apps and good data – but above all they need a reliable way to follow each user along his/her daily digital journey.

Information wars: how journalists navigated social media in the Israel-Palestine conflict

It’s not uncommon now to hear social media termed as the ‘new battleground’ when it comes to conflict coverage. Conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Ukraine are widely reported by both traditional and social media, as was the Israel-Palestine conflict. As the fighting now settles into an unsteady but hopeful ceasefire, Lucy Dean examines the use and abuse of social media in Gaza, and explores how journalists can navigate the terrain.

WAN-IFRA appalled by gruesome murder of war correspondent Steven Sotloff

WAN-IFRA has condemned the apparent beheading of US journalist Steven Sotloff by Islamic State (ISIS) militants. “We are appalled by the gruesome murder of Steven Sotloff”, WAN-IFRA Secretary General Larry Kilman said in Paris today.

Britain’s No More Page Three campaign challenges Rupert Murdoch to finally can topless photo feature

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has been coming under increasing fire from a group of campaigners seeking to end ‘Page Three’, a feature in British tabloid The Sun which splashes images of topless female models alongside serious news content.