A breaking news event pops up on your social media feed. Before you can send your reporter to the scene, the best pictures and videos are already captured by eye witnesses. But can you trust and use their materials? How do you verify them?
The French National Assembly passed an amendment last Friday to eliminate all media censorship from the ‘State of Emergency’ legislation. The announcement came following the approval of its three-month extension.
Despite presidential promises, soft censorship – most conspicuously in the form of partisan allocation of government advertising – remains a powerful impediment to a free, independent and pluralistic media in Mexico. This is the main conclusion of “Breaking Promises, Blocking Reform: Soft Censorship in Mexico”, a new report by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) and Fundar, Center of Analysis and Research.
Context is what turns a social post or a piece of UGC into a story; it also helps you to work through a verification process quickly. That is what Fergus Bell, UGC and digital newsgathering expert, writes in this piece originally published for First Draft on Medium.
As CEO of publishing solution provider ppi Media, Norbert Ohl has seen trends come and go. In this guest post, he takes a stance on programmatic advertising and offers advice to publishing houses on how they can implement it sensibly.
The recommendation to hire millennials comes from the American Press Institute, which recently launched a “best practices to reach millennials” report. And by employing them, they don’t mean taking on a few interns, it means making millennials respected members of the newsroom.
While many publications start adopting native advertising, the line between editorial content and advertising is blurring considerably. The sensitive question around integrity and reputation remains, especially since some editorial teams are directly engaged in the content creation process. With no industry standard on the labelling of native advertisement, transparency on the intention of the content is still a challenge.
Despite new governmental leadership since April 2014, Serbia’s political parties appear unwilling to relinquish their informal influence on editorial policy through various forms of soft censorship according to a new report.
A new website that collects, shares and allows the update of media and ethical codes is designed to encourage ethical communication and greater sensitivity to the link between media regulation and ethics.
As the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night shook the world, global media rushed to report on the unfolding story. It seems lessons learned from the coverage of the Charlie Hebdo massacre and Jewish supermarket hostage siege in January, ensured most reporters and news organisations were better prepared and able to tell an accurate story.
Facebook’s new app sits, somewhat uncomfortably, between Twitter, Apple’s News app and Snapchat. What is really going on? Media analyst Andreas Pfeiffer takes a closer look at the new app and what it means to publishers. (This article was originally posted on the Pfeiffer Report website.)
WAN-IFRA was part of an international delegation of media and freedom of expression organisations that met with the Indonesian government to discuss the state of media in the country. It highlighted concerns regarding journalist safety and an environment that poses significant threats to freedom of expression after a week-long visit to meet with journalists, civil society and government representatives.