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.
A brave team from The Washington Post, The New York Times and Knight-Mozilla OpenNews are taking on the cesspools of online comments boards, this year beginning to build what they hope will become the ‘identity layer’ for the Internet. Jake Evans spoke to Greg Barber, The Washington Post’s lead on the Coral Project, about how this new commenting system could solve the Internet’s woes.
A team of Swedish journalists are hoping to launch an investigative journalism project which will uncover the untold stories around the world in authentic and immersive ways, by using a business model more familiar to charities than news publishers. Jake Evans spoke with Martin Schibbye, who is leading the project, and has become a champion for investigative reporting since being imprisoned in Ethiopia while investigating a Swedish oil company’s activities in the Ogaden province in 2011.
WAN-IFRA condemns this weekend’s attacks in Copenhagen that left two people dead and several others injured. “We denounce in the strongest possible terms this latest attempt at silencing free speech and stand in solidarity with the Danish people during this tragic moment.”
WAN-IFRA’s Global Alliance for Media Innovation recently held a Wearables Workshop at the German Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung publishing house to explore the possibilities offered by new wearable platforms such as smartwatches and Google Glass.
Twelve of Argentina’s largest news publishers have joined forces to try to understand their audiences better as they face the challenges of the digital era.
“We don’t believe in this dependence between content and payment on the internet,” says Sebastian Esser, founder of Krautreporter. So how does a great journalism crowdfunding idea grow into a long-term business model?
Radio journalism is an unstable profession where you start young and leave young. In the lead-up to World Radio Day on Friday, Laurent Poillot writes that young journalists are enduring worsening work conditions in radio in the face of an unstable job climate.
The newly launched Reuters TV app is part of an evolving strategy from news agency Reuters to bring its global, but sometimes unrecognised, brand out from behind the scenes and into the hands of its own customer base, writes Jake Evans.
Social media changed how journalists cover elections, but media experts at yesterday’s news:rewired conference in London said that this year’s UK general elections will be the first true ‘social media election’ – in the UK at least. Data-driven and mobile journalism are also top of the agenda, as Federica Cherubini reports.
The Tanzanian government’s closure of The EastAfrican newspaper has been broadly condemned by international press organisations, writes Jake Evans.
Interview with Jörg Riebartsch, editor-in-chief of Ostthüringer Zeitung (OTZ), a daily newspaper published by the Media Group Thüringen, which is part of the Funke media group. Before joining OTZ, he held management positions in various newspaper editorial offices.