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Going viral: How the world's press is responding to the coronavirus pandemic
“We’re not just fighting an epidemic, we’re fighting an infodemic” – World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. While the entire world descends into lockdown in the battle...
View ArticleBBC regional news chief says social media no replacement for 'rigorous...
Head of BBC West and South West Stephanie Marshall writes about the importance of accurate and impartial news during the pandemic. This article first appeared in the Western Daily Press. It was a...
View ArticleIt's now or never: What advertisers, Government, readers and big tech must do...
It’s been said that the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. As far as the coronavirus crisis goes we can all play our part: doing our bit as citizens to maintain the...
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Science Media Centre chief: 'Cuts to journalism come at a time when it is...
Fiona Fox (pictured) is chief executive of the Science Media Centre which works with journalist to promote “accurate, evidence-based information” about science and the media. Here she raises her...
View ArticleGlobal news industry should celebrate after Google compelled to negotiate...
A French ruling compelling Google to negotiate with publishers over payments for their content should be a cause of celebration for news organisations worldwide. This is the view of VG Media, a body...
View ArticleNUJ unveils plan to build 'reimagined news sector' beyond Covid-19 crisis
As Press Gazette’s analysis shows, more than 2,000 staff across the UK’s national and regional press have temporarily lost their jobs as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, with media analyst Douglas...
View ArticleSome 600 nominations for Journalism Matters: Excellence in Reporting...
Journalists are the unsung key workers of the coronavirus pandemic. Without their efforts dangerous fake news would continue circulating unchallenged on social media and shortages putting the lives of...
View ArticleHow to host virtual events: Tips for publishers on how to respond to...
Media and publishing businesses have relied on live events to connect their communities and generate revenue from sponsors and exhibitors for years. Now many are realising that their next event will...
View ArticleEveryone can play part to stop spread of coronavirus misinformation - Reuters...
Hazel Baker is head of user generated content newsgathering at Reuters. “We’re not just fighting an epidemic – we’re fighting an infodemic.” Those were the words of World Health Organisation director...
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From listicles to Pulitzers: Buzzfeed became a UK news powerhouse, but was...
Within a decade, Buzzfeed News has seen its star rise and fall. Once thought to be the new model for journalism in the digital age, cutbacks have now wiped out its UK and Australian newsrooms. Buzzfeed...
View ArticleHow the worst of times brought out the best in journalism: All the...
To paraphrase Charles Dickens the last few months may have been the worst of times – but as is so often the case, they have brought out the best in the news industry. To highlight the vital work being...
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What the Daily Mail can teach news businesses about how to survive a pandemic
There is one UK national newspaper whose current ownership dates back to before the last great global flu pandemic just over a century ago. News businesses looking for tips on how to survive the...
View ArticleJournalists and social distancing: Time to tackle hypocrisy of media scrums
Not adhering to social distancing guidelines is one of the stories that has recurred throughout this pandemic. When Neil Ferguson advised a nation to stay at home to keep the transmission rate of...
View ArticleFight the Infodemic: Press Gazette launches campaign as thousands voice...
There are two pandemics raging across the world – and one risks being fuelled by the other. There is a new potentially deadly virus which we are all too well aware of. And then there is the insidious...
View ArticleThe rise of the freelance journalist: Tough times and lockdown prompt boom in...
May is traditionally seen as the month of merriment. For journalists who were furloughed or made redundant it gave the sector a daily drip-feed of depressing industry news. BuzzFeed News, Quartz and...
View ArticleWhy I'm proud to be a member of the #scummedia
A rather nasty anti-journalist tendency which has been simmering on social media manifested itself on the streets of London this week in the form of physical attacks on reporters. An Australian Nine...
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Head of newsgathering at ITV News: It shouldn't take a tragedy for media to...
In the past week, our teams at ITV News in the US and at home in the UK have been working around the clock to tell the devastating story of George Floyd, the unarmed black man who died during a police...
View ArticleHow the Daily Mail went from newsroom to 'Zoom rooms' to defy the Covid-19...
It was the day no journalist thought they would see – the miracle of the paper brought out with not a single person in the office, a totally empty newsroom. Even on Christmas Day, our Kensington HQ...
View ArticleTwitter is on fire and journalists should try not to fan the flames
Twitter has become the sea that journalists swim in. And this week it feels like it has become so polluted that it is difficult to take more than the briefest dip without risking one’s health. The same...
View ArticleNew Standard editor Emily Sheffield will have to pull off another revolution...
New Evening Standard editor Emily Sheffield takes over at a time of existential crisis for the free London newspaper, which has been pushed to near breaking point by the coronavirus pandemic. The daily...
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