2013-11-11. An unprecedented top-level press freedom mission is being sent to the United Kingdom by the world’s press freedom organisations in response to recent actions by the British government.
With Google serving 1 billion unique users a week and driving 6 billion publisher referrals a month, Richard Gingras, senior director of news and social products, has a unique insight.
Cision and Canterbury Christ Church University recently conducted an online survey about the use of and attitude towards social media amongst journalists in the U.K.
As newspaper sales continue to erode, newsrooms are looking for any and all cost-cutting options including the eradication of staff photojournalists in favour of freelance work and pictures from reporters.
What would you do if you had $2.4m to create the best possible smartphone news experience?
Thomas Patterson, Bradlee professor of government and the press at Harvard Kennedy School, critiques journalism today and calls for an overhaul of the current news-reporting system in his new book Informing the News: The need for knowledge-based journalism.
Twitter’s news-seeking audience stand out for being younger and more educated than both the general population and Facebook news consumers, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center.
Johnston Press, the UK regional publisher based in Bourne, Lincolnshire, has announced it will be re-launching its title The Local with up to 75 percent of its content coming from the local public.
Technological advancements in digital media have meant that multimedia news stories are becoming increasingly popular and increasingly better crafted. Since The New York Times’s Pulitzer-winning story Snow Fall, the rise of multimedia journalism and the reasons for its effectiveness has become the topic of much discussion.
During the second day of Digital Media Latinoamérica speakers discussed transforming traditional media, increasing audience engagement and new digital tools for journalists as well as copyright issues.