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The Scandinavian Way: Turn Readers into Customers
The search for an online journalism business model which not only survives but also guarantees publishers a future on the web, demands re-thinking of existing online news-service models. The...
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Sound the Alarm for Democracy
Internet gurus and serious researchers have had great expectations that the internet will give us new freedoms and the potential for democratization. Sadly, the empirical findings provided by two...
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Newspapers Should Be Re-Thought, Not Re-Styled
Francesco Franchi, art director of IL, the monthly supplement of the Sole 24 Ore, talks about his first book, “Designing News, Changing the World of Editorial Design and Information Graphics” for the...
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Digital Newsrooms Need New Staffing
The increasing consumption of news on digital platforms is forcing news organizations to rethink their news production cycles and staffing patterns. Most journalists, like other employees, prefer a...
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Bridging Political Coverage and Cynical News Consumers
News is growing more negative. Research shows this is a a growing trend in political news and articles. Researchers argue that the political stories are commonly framed negatively, and the cynical...
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Digital News Report: Journalists Still Matter
The third annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report shows that as the online news environment grows ever more crowded, journalists play an important role in driving traffic to news brands and in...
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Micro-payments for Online Journalism on the Horizon
The debate on whether readers will pay for news must include discussions on just how they pay for news: through a one off subscription, or through something more fragmented. Paul Dinulescu, the founder...
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English Language Newspapers in Germany
German newspapers are attempting to reach international audiences, and increase their readership and influence, by publishing in the English language. Handelsblatt, a leading business daily newspaper,...
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Japanese Newspapers: Losing Out Online
To a visiting European, Japanese news organisations appear to be thriving. Newspaper circulations are high, print subscriptions are strong, and newsrooms are hiring ever more journalists. Yet, things...
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Not Just Kittens: The Need For More Good News
The old adage: “If it bleeds, it leads” is still embraced by many large news outlets, with stories of war, disease and scandals dominating headlines. Yet the public still has a thirst for positive...
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4 Reasons Why Facebook Should Worry About Snapchat
Snapchat: helping news publishers reach wider and younger audiences? Snapchat is the undisputed star of 2016 journalism debate. The platform, launched in 2011 by Stanford University students, has...
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7 Steps To Successful Digital News (In Public Service Media)
‘Public Service Media need to take risks, try new things, and have the freedom to fail.’ What are the key components for the successful development of digital news in Public Service Media? A new...
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Does Virtual Reality Have A Future In The Newsroom?
The future of news? Virtual Reality (VR) has evolved from its early experimental phase to become a strategically key, more integrated part of many newsrooms globally. But how are news organisations...
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How to Create News Videos that go Viral on Social Media
Vice News video report on the August 2017 Charlottesville riots, viewed nearly six million times. Hard news videos, particularly about politics, are the most successful online, followed by videos about...
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Do Audiences Prefer Sensational News Stories?
Several tabloid covers. Source: Public Domain/Screenshots “When a dog bites a man, that is not news, But if a man bites a dog, that is news!” Journalism trainers often start their lectures on the art...
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“Us”, “Them”, and “The Rest”: Foreign News in the Czech Media
© Pexels/Obama White House Archives If foreign news offers a window into the world, then the window for radio listeners in the Czech Republic is a fairly narrow one. Researchers from Palacký University...
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Can Fact-Checking Be Automated?
© Pixabay/Sandid – CC0 Journalists and computer scientists are working to develop automated fact-checking (AFC) to enable large-scale responses to online misinformation, according to a new Factsheet by...
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Europe’s chance to show the value of a ‘soft power’ collaboration to fight...
© Wikimedia, CC0 In many countries over the past few years, the political process – and social cohesion – have been threatened by various forms of disinformation, sometimes misleadingly and...
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Crowdsourced Factchecking: A Pie In The Sky?
© Kai Pilger In the current climate of information overload the demand for factchecking is increasing. Factcheckers are often small teams that struggle to keep up with the demand. In recent years, new...
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Making Themselves Heard Amidst The Noise Of Disinformation
Experts were never really that popular. People don’t like to be told what’s best for them, and anyone who insists on accuracy is soon labelled a know-it-all. Experts early on had to learn to live with...
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