The wall erected by Greece on its border with Turkey was the catalyst for journalists to start The Migrants’ Files; a collaborative, cross-border, data-driven project that helps to put the European migration crisis into perspective. The main question: Has the wall made it more dangerous to get into Europe?
“No question: trust is our greatest challenge…We are constantly worried about resources, social media, monetization and all these kinds of things. All of those pale in comparison to this particular challenge.” A sobering warning from Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron.
Last year, Justin Kirby wrote a post for us about what traditional media brings to the branded content party. In it, he explained that despite a growing consensus amongst industry experts about how branded content will be at the heart of every marketing strategy, there was less agreement about what it actually is.
In recent years, Asia has appeared among the bright spots of the world’s newspaper industry in terms of traditional, print-based growth, and the view of many in the West might well be that news publishers there aren’t yet facing the same challenges that they are. Nothing could be further from the truth.
In a world overloaded with information and editors lacking resources, what is the future of journalism and how should editors adapt? The World Editors Forum spoke to Butch Ward, of The Poynter Institute.
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Who says working with tech in the media industry is not for women? Meet 20 women from Schibsted Media Group who love the world of software engineering!
Two years removed from its enlightening (and at times indicting) innovation report, The New York Times can point to eight principles it has adopted to transform its business.
Although journalists’ safety can never be completely guaranteed, there are numerous tools available to enhance their physical and digital protection. Are you using them? Have you even heard of them?
“There’s no simple answer or response to ad blocking. But there are a variety of responses, some of which we are working on and coordinating at Newsworks – working with our stakeholders, international colleagues and our friends at the IAB,” said Rufus Olins, Chief Executive of Newsworks, the marketing body for the UK’s national newspapers, during the group’s Shift 2016 conference on 1 March at the British Library in London.
PBS’ investigative series FRONTLINE launched a new immersive documentary on Facebook 360, transporting viewers to war-torn South Sudan where more than 2,8 million people are suffering a hunger crisis, and near 40,000 are on the brink of starvation. We spoke to Benedict Moran, one of the filmmakers behind this challenging production.
Houston and the entire US economy face unprecedented dangers as the nation’s largest refining and petrochemical complex is unprepared for the next hurricane to hit the region, according to an investigative multimedia project launched by ProPublica today. It points out the astonishing lack of urgency among leaders to prevent the disaster from happening.In partnership with ProPublica, a team at USC Annenberg are using the latest VR technologies in an attempt to wake up people to a potential disaster that is heading their way.
Houston and the entire US economy face unprecedented dangers as the nation’s largest refining and petrochemical complex is unprepared for the next hurricane to hit the region, according to an investigative multimedia project launched by ProPublica today. It points out the astonishing lack of urgency among leaders to prevent the disaster from happening.
In partnership with ProPublica, a team at USC Annenberg are using the latest VR technologies in an attempt to wake up people to a potential disaster that is heading their way.