The ability to watch someone being murdered on social media is unfortunately not new. We have ISIS to thank for that. But did this week’s game-like video, filmed down the barrel of a gun, mark a new moment in our relationship with, and acceptance of what is shared on social media?
Indonesia’s Kompas Daily credits a need to keep improving as the reason why it does the kinds of actions that made it this year’s World Young Reader News Publisher of the Year.
“I do detect something like a revival of the printed word among publishers,” says Hermann Petz, the CEO of the Austrian regional newspaper Tiroler Tagezeitung. “The either-or mentality between printed and online media, which we have been able to observe in the last few years, has lost momentum.”
When users enter information about themselves on digital publishing platforms, they trust the publisher not to misuse that data, and ideally they want to specify how the publisher may or may not use their personal details.
“We were asking ourselves ‘How can a printed paper compete nowadays?’” says designer Hans Peter Janisch in describing the redesign of the Luxembourg-based daily newspaper, Tageblatt, last year.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has signed off on a $4.7 million grant to promote data journalism in Africa. The pilot programme will initially run in three regional ‘hub’ nations – South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria and includes the setting up of a cadet school in Cape Town. Glenda Nevill reports.
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.