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A code of conduct in covering minorities

By Lorelei Mihală, published on May 22, 2012

Despite the existence of deontological codes and institutions responsible for sanctioning discriminatory remarks, offensive headlines against the Roma minority are not exceptional in the Romanian media. Journalist George Lăcătuş and the Centre for Independent Journalism in Romania have elaborated a code of conduct for a responsible coverage of minorities, which they hope will lead to a more objective reporting on the Roma minority.

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Novaya Gazeta: a new dawn for investigative journalism?

By Claudia Costa, published on May 18, 2012

New media and technology are enabling transnational investigations to be crowd-sourced and opened to citizen journalists. Could this also lead to a safer environment for investigative reporters? To find out we spoke to Novaya Gazeta’s Editor-in-Chief, Dmitry Muratov, on the occasion of the Press Freedom Debate organised in Maastricht by the EJC at the request of the City of Maastricht and in cooperation with the Foundation Médaille Charlemagne.

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Story Hack: Beta – entertaining and engaging, the transmedia way

By Amanda Lin Costa, published on May 14, 2012

How will technologies like the Internet and innovations in digital media change the way we tell stories? The recent Story Hack: Beta event at the New York Lincoln Center gave writers, designers, filmmakers and developers the opportunity to redefine storytelling by working and playing in “transmedia” - stories that are not confined to a single narrative medium. Participants were asked to form teams and design a storytelling model spanning three or more technological platforms and use it to create a cohesive narrative, all over the course of 24 hours.

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Biased journalism strains Lithuanian-Polish relations

By Linas Jegelevicius, published on May 6, 2012

How much “loyalty” can be expected from ethnic minorities’ media outlets towards their host country? The discussion is ongoing in Lithuania, where Kurier Wilenski, the newspaper of the Polish community, has been voicing an increasingly belligerent rhetoric against the Lithuanian state.

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Building Bridges: U.S.-Pakistan Professional Partnership in Journalism

By Khalid Khattak, published on April 30, 2012

Amid Pakistan’s roller coaster relationship with the United States, especially on the subject of the war on terror, a capacity building exchange programme for journalists had been riding quite smoothly. The U.S.-Pakistan Professional Partnership in Journalism programme, funded by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), aims at training journalists in giving audiences both in Pakistan and the United States a more balanced picture of life and events in each other’s countries and dispelling existing myths and misperceptions.

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De Pers: The end of a popular free Dutch daily that never made any money

By Gemma van der Kamp, published on April 24, 2012

After five years and a few months, the last issue of the Dutch free daily De Pers was distributed on 30 March. Despite a strong belief in its exceptional editorial formula, De Pers was not able to survive in the Dutch free newspaper market. What went wrong? What is the secret of a successful free daily?

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Will the scramble for photojournalists to learn video be worth it?

By Amanda Lin Costa, published on April 17, 2012

In a changing media landscape marked by the migration from print to online supports, many photojournalists have been turning on the video function on their DSLR cameras and started to become video journalists. But do photojournalists naturally make good video journalists? And does learning video provide any kind of job safety?

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Vis à Vis, a new iPad magazine in Spain, wants to be free forever

By Gina Gulberti, published on April 10, 2012

In a small office in Alcala Street, in the centre of Madrid, a team of seven young entrepreneurial journalists are working overtime to produce the next issue of the Spanish digital magazine Vis à Vis. Conceived exclusively for the iPad and launched in January 2012, Vis à Vis is an interactive, visual and modern publication that wants to reinvent journalism.

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18DaysInEgypt: a pioneering storytelling platform to document Egypt’s revolution

By Alessandra Bajec, published on March 29, 2012

In the 18 days of Egypt’s uprising that began on 25 January 2011 and ended with the resignation of the former President Hosni Mubarak on 11 February, thousands of Egyptians turned to their cell phones, digital cameras or social media sites, to document the events as they were unfolding in Cairo and across the country. Tapping into this wealth of material, American documentary filmmaker and journalist Jigar Mehta co-founded 18DaysInEgypt, a crowd-sourced interactive documentary project aimed at capturing the history of the revolution in Egypt.

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Immersive journalism and a step forward for virtual reality

By Amanda Lin Costa, published on March 25, 2012

US journalist and producer Nonny de la Peña  integrates the modern technology of virtual reality with journalistic stories and calls it “immersive journalism”. She defines this approach on her website as “the production of news in a form in which people can gain first person experiences of the events or situation described in news stories.”  In her latest project, “Hunger in Los Angeles,” she uses a virtual reality experience to recreate a real life event and investigates the way the emotional response to the event is expressed and can be amplified.

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