The significant traffic to our recent webinar and blog about how the BBC is using WhatsApp to boost engagement justifies the focus on Chat Apps as one of the 2015 Trends in Newsrooms to watch. Here, in this excerpt from the report, Jake Evans looks at the innovative ways newsrooms are using chat apps.
Deseret in the US is often lauded as the darling of digital transformation. Driving much of that change has been Chris Lee, President of Deseret Digital Media, the separate business set up more than five years ago as part of the company’s dual transformation strategy.
In this guest post Alessia Cerantola, a multimedia journalist at Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI), looks at how local investigative journalists in Italy are covering mafia and organised crime, and at what risks.
Reading a newspaper can greatly benefit a prison inmate, even more so than a book, argues former prisoner Chandra Bozelko in a compelling essay appearing in Quartz, the online news outlet of Atlantic Media.
Twenty-one Danish boys and girls are spending this week in a journalism boot camp as part of a project that aims to teach them how to be reporters, writes Aralynn McMane, WAN-IFRA’s Executive Director of Youth Engagement and News Literacy.
Japanese newspaper company Nikkei’s announcement on 23 July that it would purchase the Financial Times Group, surprised everyone in the media world, above all the Japanese. In this guest blog, Ginko Kobayashi, a London-based journalist, looks at the reaction in Japan.
Back in 2013 we visited the new BuzzFeed U.K. team – just three people in a co-working space in White Bear Yard in Clerkenwell, London. Now, as their U.K. newsroom team grows to more than 50 editorial staff, we look back for the secrets to their success.
Leading from the top, forging alliances, flagging sexist practices, and providing training to help female journalists tackle ‘cybermisogyny’ are important steps being undertaken globally in an effort to achieve real progress in the struggle for gender equality and women’s empowerment in newsrooms, reports Julie Posetti.
The next media accelerator (nma.vc) does exactly what you might expect: It seeks to accelerate growth in new media startups. We got on the phone to Hamburg to understand what makes them unique.
“We very much started from a completely blank page because there weren’t any other news organisations doing this stuff at the time. We didn’t have anything to compare ourselves against or to see what was working elsewhere or not working and adapt accordingly,” said Trushar Barot, Mobile Editor at BBC World Service, on the BBC’s integration of WhatsApp as a new method of reporting.
On 28 July the Italian Chamber of Deputies introduced a Declaration of Internet Rights, making Italy the first European country to produce such a document.
Listen up: there is a renaissance that needs your attention. Julie Posetti and Siobhan McHugh unpack the revival of interest in audio storytelling in this excerpt from our recently published “Trends in Newsrooms 2015” report.