Selling journalism is no crime. In fact, only a few reporters and editors are ashamed of the fact that much of what they go great lengths to research, edit, and produce can only be consumed for money. After all,...
The latest development in Google’s efforts to find a third-party cookie replacement involves the dropping of its FLoCs solution and the introduction of Topics. Both support interest-based advertising, but following privacy concerns around its cohort approach, Google has substituted a solution...
Search engine optimisation (SEO) can help an article appear higher up on Google search and bring more readers to the publisher’s website. It is also becoming a crucial skill for journalists but with every publication approaching it differently, it...
The award-winning journalist who captured the attack on the US Capitol last January has warned an erosion in local journalism has created a “news desert” that is increasing the risk of a similar attack happening in the UK.
Origen: Local...
Media companies are looking at artificial intelligence (AI) in 2022, according to Nic Newman’s Trends and predictions 2022 report, based on a survey of hundreds of media leaders around the world. For newsrooms looking to deepen their understanding of...
One exercise I like to use when teaching college students about media is to draw a Cartesian coordinate plane, give them each a list of news organizations, and then have them place each one at some X,Y coordinate. You...
Mainstream news media outlets have, in recent years, begun to create advertisements that look like news articles on their websites and on social media. My research raises questions about whether this modern form of advertising might influence those outlets’ real journalism.
Origen: Researchers looked...
“The Cleveland Press, dead at 103.” That was WEWS Cleveland’s proclamation on June 17, 1982, the day the paper—which the former mayor Carl Stokes once wrote had determined every mayor from 1941 to 1965—made its last print run. A...
A top official from Sweden’s new “psychological defence” agency said the country had decided to bring back the cold war-era government body amid fears over Russian aggression against Ukraine.Magnus Hjort, deputy director of the agency, which
Origen: Sweden returns to...
In various Latin American countries, journalists must navigate oppression to report freely. They work against authoritarianism, corrupt judicial systems, and repressive, radical governments. In a recent #DiálogoCONNECTAS discussion organized by ICFJ, IJNet and CONNECTAS, journalists from Cuba, Bolivia, El Salvador,...
