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Will Machines Replace Journalists?
After looking at start-ups for their book, “The Monkey That Won a Pulitzer,” two Italian journalists launched a project that uses motion graphics to tell news stories with context.read more ›
Journalism Caught in Narrow Nationalism: The India-Pakistan Media War
Dwaipayan Bose, an Indian journalist working for Daily News and Analysis (DNA) in Jaipur and a Thomson Reuters fellow for two terms in 2011, has written a polemical study on the nationalistic and jingoistic framing of India and...read more ›
Three new Journalist Fellows' papers now online
Jamilah Tangaza (Nigeria), Beom-Soo Park (South Korea) and Mimma Lehtovaara (Finland) have recently finished their Fellowship papers, which are now available on the RISJ website.read more ›
Supporting the past, forgetting the future? New RISJ study of direct and indirect public subsidies for the media
A new report from the Reuters Institute (RISJ) shows that while media industries in most developed democracies have undergone a period of profound change over the last fifteen years and many news organisations face serious...read more ›
Should Government Save Journalism?
In recent years there have been many calls for government action to save journalism and news organizations, with observers blaming the Internet and the changing economics for contemporary challenges.read more ›
Rioters without a cause
On Sunday evening, a middle aged woman waded into a crowd of rioters in Hackney and shouted that she was ashamed to be black, ashamed to be a Hackney woman – because of the destruction and fear the rioters were spreading about...read more ›
Newspapers perform a valuable role in enforcing local accountability
In some ways this dichotomy might appear rather antiquated. After all, isn’t everything online now? What difference does the method of delivery make? But in reality we still see wide divergences between media organisations in...read more ›
Power of Asia: democracy or prosperity?
Former Journalist Fellow Giang Nguyen, Head of BBC Vietnamese and Editor of the East Asia Hub at the World Service has organised the first joint-project of all languages in the East Asia Hub.The World Debate panel covered...read more ›
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Social Media: No serious news-gathering operation can afford to ignore it
In the wake of the scandal currently afflicting Britain’s news industry, it is tempting to believe that anything might be better than putting our faith in the ethics and trustworthiness of professional journalists. So it is a...read more ›
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How Old Media are using New Media
When Myra MacDonald was a Reuters correspondent in India way back in the 20th century, she remembers waking up each day scanning the morning papers, and then perhaps meeting up with colleagues and sources to catch up on the...read more ›