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Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems and Journalism

This report summarizes issues raised by journalists, policy and legal specialists in the challenges posed by the use of unmanned aircraft in news gathering.

It includes research to help news organisations evaluate the potential for use of these tools, to understand the broader context and issues surrounding their use, to consider how they might be used, and to assess the desirability of their use.

Published by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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Professor Robert G. Picard

Professor Robert G Picard is a world-leading specialist on media economics and government media policies. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and served as Director of Research at the Reuters Institute from 2010 to 2014. He was formerly based... Read more about Professor Robert G. Picard

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Professor Robert G. Picard

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David Goldberg

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Mark Corcoran

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