This workshop will analyze the information an investigator (or thief) may obtain by intercepting internet traffic, a mobile phone or stealing a computer. You will learn what a digital forensics and ne...
Events -
Day after day reporters have told of how the crisis has unfolded in Ukraine: from the Maidan protests, which led to the ouster of President Yanukovych, to the annexation of Crimea by Russia. A task th...
The rise of social networking websites on the Internet has revolutionized the way in which information is shared and consumed online. Twitter, a social networking website created in 2006, was establis...
Amateur footage: the increasing reliance on user generated content in news output
News outlets are using more and more footage filmed by eyewitnesses at breaking news events. With the proliferation of mobile phones with high quality cameras and easy access to the social web, citize...
Wars, civil wars and revolutions tend to create multiple truths rather than any one easily-agreeable truth. And the civil war in Syria, now raging since March 2011 (over 100,000 dead and 4 million ref...
In the past few years the relevance of “Digital Leaks” (OffshoreLeaks, Cables, Snowden, etc) has been an important enabling factor for investigative journalism development. The famous “big inter...
For background reading on the remarkable De Correspondent success story; Mathew Ingram's This online journalism startup raised $1.7M in crowdfunding and you've never heard of it
Online news is a war of opinions. And much more. Propaganda, hoaxes and conspiracy theories, of course; but also the checking of data and sources, retractions and direct evidence. But why does debunki...
Digital safety is a hot issue at the moment. After Snowden some journalists have panicked about using Google etc. This presentation will focus on how journalists should deal with this issue. Is it rea...