How SMART News Agency is telling stories from Syria in virtual reality Journalism.co.uk ‘We are doing VR also for credibility, because you let the viewer be the witness inside Syria’ Inside Infomagical, Note to Self’s crowdsourcing project to find out how people deal with information overload Journalism.co.uk Using audio, voicemails and texts, Infomagical is a five-day experiment … Read more
The State of the News Media 2016: Mobile continues its takeover Nieman Journalism Lab by Joseph Lichterman Facebook, Snapchat, and other social platforms have dominated conversations around journalism over the past year. While publishers have flocked to tools like Facebook Live, Instant Articles, and Snapchat Discover to reach new audiences, they’ve also worried about changing revenue … Read more
Europe: The Next Front in the Battle for Net Neutrality EFF.org Updates Americans won big on net neutrality in February, when the FCC voted to adoptnew rules that would allow it to rein in the abusive and discriminatory practices of big telecommunications operators, such as blocking or throttling of Internet data, and charging content providers for … Read more
A Q&A with The Guardian U.S. about its new mobile innovation lab Nieman Journalism Lab by Laura Hazard Owen The Guardian U.S. has nabbed $2.6 million from the Knight Foundation to launch an “innovation lab” within its New York City newsroom. The lab will focus on news consumption via mobile devices. Per the release: Smartphones and … Read more
At least 66 journalists were killed in 2014 as attacks grow more ‘barbaric’ Mashable! by Christopher Miller KIEV, Ukraine — Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday that at least 66 journalists were killed over the course of the year as the number of reporters’ kidnappings soared in 2014. Crowdsourcing the future of news Nieman Journalism Lab by Melody … Read more
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, has issued three new studies that may be of interest: Is there still a place for public service television? Effects of the changing economics of broadcasting, edited by Robert G. Picard and Paolo Siciliani https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/Publications/Working_Papers/Is_There_Still_a_Place_for_Public_Service_Television.pdf Women and journalism, Suzanne Franks https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/publications/risj-challenges/women-and-journalism.html Climate change and … Read more