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The best journalism movies to watch this Christmas: From Spotlight to The...
Christmas 2020 may have put a spanner in many of our usual festive plans, but there is one traditional thing we can all still do: sit on the sofa and watch endless movies for a week. But they don’t all...
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Research fellow at Harvard’s Future of Media project Heidi Legg shares seven US-based media and tech predictions for the future of the news business in 2021. 1) Regulation is coming “It’s clear now...
View ArticleITV journalist's report from inside US Capitol: 'A crowd of furious men in...
ITV News producer Sophie Alexander was at the scene on a bad day for US democracy when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. We were primed for unrest but were not expecting it on a scale like this....
View ArticleTrust, truth and making news pay: Editors outline the biggest challenges for...
It may be a new year, but many of the challenges facing journalism in 2021 are not new. The question of how to make news pay remains, as do concerns over trust and truth, both of which have been eroded...
View ArticleCreate an open-source licence for news and let the tech platforms pay
Growing up in South Yorkshire in the Eighties, The Star newspaper was my window on the world. I devoured the back pages for the latest on Sheffield Wednesday. I studied the business section and...
View ArticleJournalism after Trump: Why facts are now more important than arguments
That’s what happens when you flood the zone with shit. The vivid phrase has been attributed to Steve Bannon, President Trump’s pound store Svengali. It is as it sounds: a conscious decision by those in...
View ArticleMedia themes for the Biden era: Newsroom wars, subscription echo chambers and...
Brian Morrissey has covered the US media for more than a decade, as editor in chief of Digiday and now on is own newsletter The Rebooting. Here he looks at the future for news media in post-President...
View ArticleDiversify newsroom campaigner: Jobs go to privileged white colleagues who...
Watching the historic inauguration of new US Vice-President Kamala Harris on Wednesday should have felt more momentous than it did. Harris is not only the first woman, but the first person of colour to...
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UK newspaper front pages mainly focus on Boris Johnson's apology as UK passes...
Grim milestones were hauled out by everyone from ITV and the BBC to The Telegraph, New York Times and Northern Echo yesterday to describe the news Britain had passed 100,000 official coronavirus...
View ArticleMedia leadership lessons: Journalists are not business people, they are on a...
Former Independent editor Chris Blackhurst has held senior jobs in a variety of newsrooms. Here he shares his tips on managing newsrooms. Hardly a day goes by without the announcement of a corporate...
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How user-generated content has changed the news industry in the age of lockdown
Whether it was doctors taking us behind the veil of Covid-19 intensive care units or a teenage girl shaping history by filming the horror of George Floyd’s death, user-generated content (UGC) has had a...
View ArticleFive lessons for the media over Meghan's Mail on Sunday privacy victory
The Meghan Markle privacy victory versus the Mail on Sunday underlines an important lesson for the UK media. Today privacy is a far bigger peril for publishers than libel. The Mail on Sunday will now...
View ArticleFacebook's abrupt, crude and petulant ban on news in Australia is a...
Having spent the past decade becoming so ubiquitous that it is the internet for many people, Facebook has abruptly, crudely and petulantly banned news publishers from its pages in Australia. And it has...
View ArticleBBC Trusted News Initiative on how publishers can fight disinformation
There is widespread mistrust of institutions – that is what leaders from Davos to democratic capitals all over the world are pondering. The annual Edelman Trust index has charted this decline and...
View ArticleGoogle 'sweetheart' deal with News Corp helps both avoid regulation, say...
Marketers for an Open Web legal adviser Tim Cowen condemns ‘sweetheart’ deal between News Corp and Google. While Facebook was blocking news in Australia, Google did a global deal with News Corp,...
View ArticleManagement: How publishers can improve efficiency without collateral damage
Have you ever wondered what proportion of your cost base is seen by the final consumer? You would be surprised at how little this might be. For publishers, the pre-Covid world was characterised by...
View ArticleJulian Assange extradition: Freedom of British media to expose US state...
Dr Paul Arnell is expert on extradition law from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen – he explains why the Julian Assange extradition appeal has huge implications for media freedom in the UK. The...
View ArticleWhy a fair licensing deal would see Google and Facebook pay news industry...
Andrew Hughes is secretary general of the Press Database and Licensing Network, a global trade body for organisations that collect payments for news content from press cuttings agencies and other...
View ArticleMorgan, Meghan and why journalism industry should pause to reflect on...
In the darkest days of the coronavirus crisis Piers Morgan became an unlikely national hero. Earlier than any other high-profile journalist he realised how serious the pandemic was and, using his...
View Article'Swings and roundabouts': What Covid-19 remote working has done to newsroom...
More than a third of media professionals believe they have exceeded newsroom productivity while working from home during the coronavirus pandemic – however some shared concerns that the quality of...
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