The European Court of Justice has ruled in favour of the so-called “right to be forgotten”, a decision that will force companies like Google to amend certain search results at the request of users.
Before becoming the Dean of the School of Media and Communication at Temple University in Philadelphia last September, David Boardman spent 30 years at The Seattle Times. For more than a decade, he was either the newspaper’s chief editor or a managing editor.
The New York Times released a report on newsroom innovation this past week which was led by Arthur Gregg Sulzberger, a metro reporter and the son of NYT chairman and publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
Following the walkout of seven editorial executives from French daily Le Monde last week, two deputy directors have also reportedly left the organisation. The World Editors Forum’s Paul McClean spoke to Patrick Eveno, Professor of Journalism at the Sorbonne, to find out why the paper is witnessing such turbulent times.
Janine GIBSON is Editor of The Guardian in the United States and she led the paper’s US coverage of the Snowden story to industry acclaim. Now, she’s headed back to London as Editor in Chief of theguardian.com.
Julie POSETTI, editor of the World Editors Forum’s upcoming Trends In Newsrooms report, asked GIBSON what shifts in storytelling and editorial management she’s observing.
New legislation is set to be introduced in Spain to prevent news aggregators from reproducing other’s content without payment. Paul McClean speaks to a digital media consultant and a representative of the Spanish Publishers Association to discuss the ethics of aggregation.
“Who will protect the journalists?” Oleksandr Akymenko asks urgently as he describes the deliberate targeting of Ukrainian journalists in Crimea by Russian troops and separatists. Akymenko, one of the founders of the impressive YanukovychLeaks collaborative investigative journalism project, visited Paris this week to try to activate the global journalism communuity in support of Ukrainian journalists.
Seven chief editors at French newspaper Le Monde resigned this morning, citing issues with senior management.
Journalists and photographers at Australia’s Fairfax Media have gone on strike in Sydney, Melbourne and regional centres after the company announced it would shed another 80 newsroom jobs and outsource most photography to Getty Images. Those who have walked off the job have been threatened with dismissal.
Gendered online abuse is “…keeping women outside of that area of work (online journalism) and it’s really working to shut women up, which is its intention”, says Elisa Lees Munoz from the International Women’s Media Foundation. She spoke to the World Editors Forum’s Emily Bennett at UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day Conference in Paris.