With the Finnish parliamentary elections coming up on 19 April and the election coverage intensifying by the day, the Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat (HS) is now using an automated system in order to provide further light on the issue of media impartiality.
The impact of the digital era on journalistic source protection is under consideration at a major UNESCO conference on the future of the internet being staged in Paris this week. The conference is designed to engage governments and civil society on the preliminary findings of a global study on freedom of expression, access, privacy and ethics online. Julie Posetti is there.
2015-03-03. Behind the ceremony and the award, the lives of the laureates are ones of extraordinary personal courage and self-sacrifice, with stories of imprisonment, beatings, bombings, censorship, exile and murder.
A controversial story by Giovanni Troilo which won this year’s World Press Photo Contemporary Issues prize is now under fire for being staged and inaccurate. It should, by the organisation’s own standards, be disqualified. Jake Evans reports.
This WAN-IFRA report examines how news publishers can profit from programmatic advertising, a rapidly evolving trend that is reshaping the digital advertising landscape.
Jonathan Halls is Principal of Jonathan Halls & Associates and an adjunct professor at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He has worked for more than 20 years in the media industry, in more than 20 countries and with 30 different nationalities. He teaches and consults on organizational dynamics including leadership, change, communication and innovation. He also teaches media production.
Each year, WAN-IFRA awards the Golden Pen of Freedom to recognise the outstanding action, in writing or deed, of an individual, a group or an institution in the cause of press freedom. The award is traditionally presented during the opening ceremony of the World News Media Congress, which this year will take place in Washington, D.C., 1-3 June.
The recent arrest of three Al Jazeera journalists for allegedly flying a drone without authorisation in Paris is unlikely to affect legal progress for drone journalism – but it is a reminder to consider its ethics, reports Jake Evans.
Today’s launch by BuzzFeed of its daily news digest is the beginning of a move by the company towards becoming a breaking news platform.
Peter Greste, in one of his first media appearances since his release from prison in Egypt, has said he believes social media may be pushing people into ‘silos’, and it is the role of the press to bridge these social divides. But that’s not quite true, writes Jake Evans.
The Swiss daily Walliser Bote (Messenger of Wallis) is the oldest newspaper in the Canton of Wallis. Founded in 1840, it is published in broadsheet format (320 x 470 mm) six days a week and has a circulation of approximately 22,000 copies. It is currently in the process of becoming the first European daily to switch completely from offset to digital inkjet printing.
Whistleblowing platforms are rapidly expanding outside the anglophone world, boosting investigative journalism and exposing corruption. Source sûre, Bivol and Balkanleaks are francophone and Bulgarian websites that allow whistleblowers to download secret documents anonymously. In an interview their cofounders Atanas Tchobanov and Yves Eudes reveal exclusive insights into investigative journalism practices and source protection.